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David Andelman
Editor in Chief, World Policy Journal
David A. Andelman is Editor in Chief of the World Policy Journal, a non-partisan source of progressive global policy analysis and thought leadership. In his role, David leads the transformation of the World Policy Institute's flagship quarterly, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary in Fall 2008. In August 2010, he also took office as President of the Overseas Press Club of America. He has served as a domestic and foreign correspondent for The New York Times in various posts in New York and Washington, as Southeast Asia bureau chief, based in Bangkok, then East European bureau chief, based in Belgrade. He then moved to CBS News where he served for seven years as Paris Correspondent. He has traveled through, and reported from, more than 50 countries. There followed service as a Washington correspondent for CNBC, news editor of Bloomberg News and Business Editor of the New York Daily News before coming to Forbes. He is the author of three books: The Peacemakers, published by Harper & Row; The Fourth World War, published by William Morrow, which he co-authored with the Count de Marenches, long-time head of French intelligence; and A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today, published in October 2007 by John Wiley & Sons. Mr. Andelman has written for such publications as Harpers, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, The Century Club, and the Grolier Club.
George Ayittey
Recognized Authority on Africa and Economic Development
George Ayittey is a Ghanaian economist and widely recognized authority on political and economic development in Africa. The president of the Free Africa Foundation and former distinguished economist in residence at American University, George has championed the idea that “Africa is poor because she is not free.” True freedom never came to much of Africa after independence from colonial rule, says his first book, Africa Betrayed, which won the H.L. Mencken Award for “Best Book in 1992.” In his most recent book, Defeating Dictators, George takes a hard look at the fight against dictatorships around the world, from Ukraine's orange revolution in 2004 to Iran's Green Revolution last year, and examines what strategies worked in the struggle to establish democracy through revolution.
In the analysis of Africa’s woes, George believes that a much greater emphasis should be placed on internal factors—bad leadership, corruption, military vandalism, and exploitation of the African people—rather than the external factors. George stresses "internal solutions" and initiatives that must come from Africa itself. He coined the expression: “African solutions for African problems.” Crying out against the “vampire states” and dysfunctional governments that, he believes, are the bedrock of problems of many troubled Africa states, George speaks passionately about the grassroots enterprises that will enable “Africans to take back Africa – one village at a time.”
His influential book Africa Unchained boldly proposes a program of development—a way forward—for Africa, investigating how Africa can modernize, build, and improve its indigenous institutions. George argues forcefully that Africa’s salvation lies in Africa itself – not inside the corridors of the U.S. Congress or the inner sanctum of the World Bank. Africa’s salvation lies in returning to and building upon its own indigenous institutions and traditions of free village markets and free trade—rather than continuing to use alien and exploitative economic structures. The critically acclaimed book has helped unleash a new wave of activism and optimism about Africa.
His recent efforts have focused on identifying profitable enterprises for “Cheetahs” —a new breed of Africans taking their futures into their own hands instead of waiting for politicians to empower them. His speech “Cheetahs vs. Hippos for Africa's Future" made a powerful impact at the TED Global Conference 2007 in Arusha, Tanzania.
George earned a Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; an M.A. University of Western Ontario, London, Canada and a B.Sc. Univ. of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.
Jeremy Bailenson
Director, Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Stanford University
Jeremy Bailenson is an expert on human interaction in virtural environments. He is the founding director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab and an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford. He earned a B.A. cum laude from the University of Michigan in 1994 and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Northwestern University in 1999. After receiving his doctorate, he spent four years at the Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior at the University of California, Santa Barbara as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and then an Assistant Research Professor.
Bailenson's main area of interest is the phenomenon of digital human representation, especially in the context of immersive virtual reality. He designs and studies collaborative virtual reality systems that allow physically remote individuals to meet in virtual space, and explores the manner in which these systems change the nature of verbal and nonverbal interaction.
His findings have been published in over 70 academic papers in the fields of communication, computer science, education, law, marketing, political science, and psychology. His work has been consistently funded by the National Science Foundation for over a decade, and he also receives grants from various Silicon Valley and international corporations. Bailenson consults regularly for government agencies including the Army, the Department of Defense, the National Research Council, and the National Institute of Health on policy issues surrounding virtual reality. He is the coauthor of Infinite Reality, the canonical book on the psychology of virtual reality, which has had a major impact in many contexts, for example corporate strategy, supreme court deliberation, and national security.
Yochai Benkler
Law Professor and Internet Scholar
Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard. Prior to coming to Harvard, he was Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law at Yale. He writes about the Internet and the emergence of networked economy and society. Since the 1990s he has been a major theorist of the role of commons and radically decentralized individual action and collaboration in the production of information, knowledge and culture, as well as the organization of infrastructure. In May 2011, Yochai was awarded the prestigous Ford Foundation Visionaries Award—an award given to innovators chosen for their vision, leadership, and pioneering work.
Yochai’s work traverses a wide range of disciplines and sectors. It is taught in schools of law, business, and information sciences, and in departments of communications, media studies, computer science, economics, and political science. In real world applications, his work has been widely discussed in both the business sector and civil society.
His book, The Wealth of Networks (2006), and his earlier work, have won him awards from civil rights and social movement organizations, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for 2007 and Public Knowledge's IP3 Award in 2006, and was called a “reveille for netizens" by The Times of London and “Internet utopianism for grown-ups” by The American Prospect. At the same time, Wealth of Networks has been called “perhaps the best work yet about the fast moving, enthusiast-driven Internet” by the Financial Times, and was named the best business book about the future in 2006 by Strategy and Business. His work has been the subject of reports in The Economist, BusinessWeek, and the Wall Street Journal, as well as general publications like the New York Times and Time magazine, exploring the implications of the emergence of networked information economy.
Alph Bingham
Co-founder, InnoCentive; Open Innovation Expert
Dr. Alph Bingham is a pioneer in the field of open innovation and an advocate of collaborative approaches to research and development. He is co-founder, and former president and chief executive officer of InnoCentive Inc., a web-based community that matches companies facing R&D challenges with scientists who propose solutions. Through InnoCentive, a platform that leverages the ability to connect to a whole planet of people through the Internet, organizations can access individuals–problem solvers–who might never have been found. Alph's newly released book, The Open Innovation Marketplace, introduces groundbreaking strategies and models for leveraging the world’s best innovation sources to drive far more value from new products, services, and business models–and do it with far less risk.
Alph spent more than 25 years with Eli Lilly and Company, and offers deep experience in pharmaceutical research and development, research acquisitions and collaborations, and R&D strategic planning. During his career he was instrumental in creating and developing Eli Lilly's portfolio management process as well as establishing the divisions of Research Acquisitions, the Office of Alliance Management, and e.Lilly, a business innovation unit, from which various other ventures that create the advantages of open and networked organizational structures, including: InnoCentive, YourEncore, Inc., Coalesix, Inc., Maaguzi, Inc., Indigo Biosystems, Seriosity, Chorus and Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc.
He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Fast Track Systems, Inc., and Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc.; the advisory boards of the Center for Collective Intelligence (MIT), the Business Innovation Factory, Phase Forward, Inc., YourEncore, Inc., and Coalesix, Inc. and as a member of the board of trustees of the Bankinter Foundation in Madrid.
He has lectured extensively at both national and international events and serves as a Visiting Scholar at the National Center for Supercomputing Application at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He is also the former chairman of the Board of Editors of the Research Technology Management Journal. Dr. Bingham was the recipient of The Economist's Fourth Annual Innovation Summit "Business Process Award" for InnoCentive. He was also named as one of Project Management Institute's "Power 50" leaders in October 2005.
Dr. Bingham received a B.S. in chemistry from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Stanford University.
David Bolinsky
Pioneering Medical Illustrator and Animator
Everyday, scientists are discovering and inventing things that no human has ever seen before. David Bolinsky is dedicated to making those discoveries visible, understandable and compelling. David is a pioneer in the scientific animation industry, and the founder of XVIVO, an award-winning animation studio that creates compelling visual productions for pharmaceutical, medical device and biotech companies, advertising agencies, educational organizations, museums and broadcast companies.
In his presentations at conferences and events all over the world, David demonstrates the power of his visual medium as an educational tool, and takes audiences, ‘from script to screen,’ as he shares highlights of his company’s animations and illustrations.
After receiving his Association of Medical Illustrators-accredited BS in Medical Illustration from Ohio State University, David accepted a joint faculty appointment as a Medical Illustrator with Michigan State University’s Human and Veterinary Medical Schools.
David completed pre-med and advanced graduate anatomy courses during that time and enrolled in MSU’s College of Human Medicine in 1977. He became Senior Medical Illustrator at the Yale School of Medicine in 1981.
An Association of Medical Illustrators member since 1983, David left Yale in 1984 to found Advanced Imaging, a first-of-its-kind digital medical animation company. In 2001, he co-founded XVIVO LLC.
A four time speaker at the TED Conference, David is frequently asked to lecture and attend panel discussions domestically and abroad, where he is thrilled to meet and interact with his professional peers and emerging talents with inquisitive minds.
David co-founded China’s annual Scientific Animation (SciAn) Festival, held in Guiyang. David’s current pet project is a book entitled Pluripotential: How Stem Cells Will Change Your Life, in collaboration with Daniel Kraft, M.D. (Stanford University).
Jim Bower
Neuroscientist, Education Pioneer, Software Entrepreneur
James Bower is Professor of Computational Neuroscience at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and at the University of Texas, San Antonio.
He is also founder, chairman and CEO of Numedeon Inc., producer of Whyville.net, one of the most popular educational websites for children, with 2.2 million registered users. Whyville is the leading educational virtual world for children ages 8 - 15. It was launched in 1999 by Numedeon, Inc. to apply over 17 years of research in education and cooperative learning to develop an innovative environment for engaging children in constructive and engaging activities on the web.
Aside from Whyville.net, Numedeon’s proprietary software also powers a virtual campus for the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio (UTHSCSA). UTHSCSA-Virtual supports scientists and medical professionals in their collaborations both locally and at a distance.
Bower was a professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for 17 years. His scientific research focuses on the cerebellum and the mammalian olfactory system and employs a variety of experimental and computational techniques. His laboratory invented the neural-simulation system GENESIS and pioneered techniques in multi-single-unit neuronal recording. He has a longstanding interest and involvement in science education at all levels, having founded several international courses in computational neuroscience and established annual computational neuroscience meetings.
Dr. Bower has also been involved in educational reform efforts since he was President of the Teen League of Rochester (NY) as a high school student from 1970 - 1971. While at Caltech, he founded and directed the Caltech Precollege Science Initiative (CAPSI). He has been a member of numerous national advisory groups on education, including the National Research Council of the National Academy of Science, the National Science Foundation and the Society for Neuroscience.
He has published more than 100 scientific articles and has authored several books. Bower received a Ph.D. in neurophysiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Stewart Brand
Author, Futurist, Activist, and Visionary
Since he emerged in the counter-culture sixties, Stewart Brand has been a force in the world for giving access to the information needed to make the planet a better place.
He is a co-founder and managing director of Global Business Network, a scenario strategy consulting business and part of the Monitor Group, where he works with leading companies and public institutions on their futures.
Mr. Brand is the president of The Long Now Foundation. Brand is well known for founding, editing and publishing the Whole Earth Catalog (1968-85), which received a National Book Award for the 1972 issue. In 1984, he founded The WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link), a computer teleconference system for the San Francisco Bay Area. It now has 11,000 active users worldwide and is considered a bellwether of the genre.
Brand has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute, an interdisciplinary center studying the sciences of complexity, since 1989. He received the Golden Gadfly Lifetime Achievement Award from the Media Alliance, San Francisco in the same year. He was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization which supports civil rights and responsibilities in electronic media, and is an acting advisor to Ecotrust, the Portland-based preservers of temperate rain forests from Alaska to San Francisco.
In his most recent book, Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto, Stewart tackles controversial issues such as nuclear power, genetic engineering, and geoengineering. He has advocated nuclear power as a responsible strategy to address power demand in the face of the stark reality of global warming. His seminal essay on this topic, entitled Environmental Heresies, appeared in the MIT Technology Review in May 2005.
Brand is the author of many pioneering books including The Clock Of The Long Now in 1999, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built in 1994, The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT in 1987, and Two Cybernetic Frontiers on Gregory Bateson and cutting-edge computer science in 1974. It had the first use of the term "personal computer" in print and was the first book to report on computer hackers.
Larry Brilliant
Pioneering Physician and Philanthropist; President, Skoll Urgent Threats Fund
A self-described social change"addict," Dr. Larry Brilliant is a pioneering physician and global philanthropist. He is the President of the Skoll Global Threats Fund and Senior Adviser to Jeff Skoll. In this role, Larry develops the strategy and approach for the newly launched Fund, as well as advises Jeff Skoll on ways to leverage his various commercial and philanthropic entities to drive positive change on urgent social and environmental issues. Prior to joining Skoll, Larry served as the inaugural Executive Director of Google.org and, later, Chief Philanthropy Evangelist, working with the company’s cofounders to define the mission and strategic goals of Google’s philanthropic efforts. This included overseeing the Google Foundation, Google Grants, and the company’s other major social change initiatives.
Larry is an M.D. and M.P.H. who is board certified in preventive medicine and public health. He is a founder and director of The Seva Foundation, which works in dozens of countries around the world, primarily to eliminate preventable and curable blindness. Larry also serves as a member of strategic advisory committees for the Berkeley School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley; Omidyar Network; and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Venture Capital.
In addition to his medical career, Larry cofounded The Well, a pioneering virtual community, with Stewart Brand in 1985. He also holds a telecommunications technology patent and has served as CEO of two public companies and other venture-backed startups.
The author of two books and dozens of articles on infectious diseases, blindness and international health policy, Larry has worked at city, county, state, federal and international levels. He was recently a “first responder” for CDC’s smallpox bio-terrorism response effort, he has volunteered in Sri Lanka for tsunami relief, and he has established “Pandefense,” an interdisciplinary consultancy that aims to prepare for possible pandemic influenza. Larry lived in India while working as a United Nations medical officer for more than a decade, where he played a key role in the successful World Health Organization (WHO) smallpox eradication program. He recently worked for the WHO polio eradication effort as well. He was Associate Professor of epidemiology, global health planning and economic development at the University of Michigan.
Larry earned a Master in Public Health degree in health planning and economic development from the University of Michigan, and he received his M.D. from Wayne Medical School. He has received several awards from the Government of India and from WHO. In 2005 he received an honorary Doctor of Sciences degree from Knox College, and he was named “International Public Health Hero” by the University of California. In February 2006 he received the Sapling Foundation’s TED Prize.
Peter Cappelli
Leading Authority on Managing Workplace Talent; Professor of Management, Wharton School
Recognized as one of the world’s most important authorities on human capital, Dr. Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at the Wharton School and Director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources. His work focuses on human resource practices, talent and performance management, and public policy related to employment. He advises to organizations on the development of managerial and executive talent by helping his clients better understand how careers and career paths have changed, how these changes require companies to think about managing talent from a more strategic perspective, and how individuals should now think about managing their own careers.
Peter's more recent research examines changes in employment relations in the U.S. and their implications. Publications on the subject matter include, The New Deal at Work: Managing the Market-Driven Workforce, which examines the decline in lifetime employment relationships, Talent Management: Managing Talent in an Uncertain Age, which outlines the strategies that employers should consider in developing and managing talent (named a "best business book" for 2008 by Booz-Allen), and his most recent publication, The India Way: How India's Top Business Leaders are Revolutionizing Management, which describes a mission-driven and employee-focused approach to strategy and competitiveness.
Peter was named one of the 25 most influential people in the field of human capital by Vault.com and one of the top 100 people in the field of recruiting by Recruiter.com. Additionally, he was elected to the National Academy of Human Resources, and—in 2004—named editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives. He currently serves on commissions for The Business Roundtable, the World Economic Forum, and the U.S. Department of Labor.
Lora Cecere
Leading Analyst on Manufacturing and Marketing in a Social World
Lora Cecere is an enterprise strategist focused on the changing face of enterprise technologies. A Partner with Altimeter Group and the author of enterprise software blog “Supply Chain Shaman,” Lora's research is designed for the early adopter seeking first mover advantage. Known for her hard-hitting, often contrarian views, Lora is considered a supply chain visionary. Her current research topics include the digital consumer, supply chain sensing, demand shaping and revenue management, demand-driven value networks, accelerating innovation through open design networks, the evolution of predictive analytics, and emerging business intelligence solutions.
Lora brings several years of industry analyst expertise coupled with two decades of manufacturing, marketing, and software expertise. Her analyst experiences include roles at Gartner Group and most recently at AMR Research. Before serving as an industry analyst, Lora was a line-of-business user/buyer and a builder of enterprise solutions. At Manugistics, she served in a number of consulting, sales and marketing roles with a final position of Vice President of Sales Operations. Lora also served a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for Descartes Systems Group where she helped in positioning the company as an early on-demand solution for logistics. Prior to that, Lora worked for 17 years in a variety of roles including manufacturing operations, distribution planning, and research & development for Proctor & Gamble, Kraft/General Foods, and Clorox.
Publications such as The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Inc., Forbes, Information Week, ComputerWorld, Financial Times, Supply Management Review and Consumer Goods Technology frequently seek Lora’s point of view.
Lora graduated from the University of Tennessee B.S. in chemical engineering and earned a MBA from the Wharton School of Business. She has also completed post graduate work in organizational development from Georgetown University. Lora is APICS CIRM and CPIM certified and is a past teacher of effective marketing concepts for software executives in the Pragmatic Marketing program.
Marcia Conner
Expert on Collaborative Business Culture; Co-author, The New Social Learning
Marcia Conner helps companies and industries leverage disruption to their advantage. She aligns social strategies with corporate culture to inform decision-making, speed innovation, and invigorate an organization’s value chain.
Marcia offers an insider's perspective on the fields of enterprise productivity, internal social networks, multi-generational business culture, human capital development, and leadership preparedness.
A prolific writer, Marcia is the author of Fast Company’s popular blog, “Learn at All Levels.” Her latest book, The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media, addresses modern organizational challenges such as widely dispersed employees and striking differences in work styles, particularly across generations with case studies from Deloitte, IBM, Mayo Clinic, TELUS, Chevron, and even the CIA. Marcia is widely quoted for her outcome-based work in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, CIO Magazine, CLO Magazine, Information Week, and on the BBC.
In addition to being a Fellow at Altimeter Group, Marcia is a Fellow at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia, develops leadership programs for women worldwide, and volunteers her time to talk with teachers and parents about creative solutions for children who have learning disabilities. Prior to joining Altimeter, she was Vice President and Information Futurist at PeopleSoft and Worldwide Manager at Microsoft.
Amy Cuddy
Leading Expert on Psychology of Power and Influence; Harvard Business School
Social psychologist Amy Cuddy studies how we perceive and are influenced by other people, investigating the roles of culture, emotions, and nonverbal behaviors. Her research concentrates on judgments of groups and individuals along two core trait dimensions–warmth/trustworthiness and competence/power–and how these shape and motivate our social emotions, intentions, and behaviors. Amy examines how these perceptions and influences shape social interactions, determining such outcomes as who gets hired and who doesn’t, when we are more or less likely to take risks, why we admire, envy, or disparage certain people, or elect politicians. Her most recent work investigates how brief nonverbal expressions of competence/power (“power posing”) actually alter an individual at the biological level, increasing their appetite for risk, leads to better performance in job intereviews, and generally configures the brain to cope well in stressful situations.
Amy's research has been published in top academic journals as well as covered on CNN, The New York Times, The Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal. She received the Alexander Early Career Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues in 2008, and a Rising Star Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2011. Her research was featured in Harvard Business Review's Breakthrough Ideas for 2009 ("Just because I'm nice, don't assume I'm dumb"), Scientific American Mind in 2010 ("Mixed impressions: How we judge others on multiple levels"), and as the cover story in the Nov-Dec 2010 issue of Harvard Magazine ("The Psyche on Automatic").
Amy is an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at the Harvard Business School. She holds a PhD in Psychology from Princeton University and BA in Psychology from the University of Colorado. Prior to joining HBS, she was an Assistant Professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where she taught Leadership in Organizations in the MBA program and Research Methods in the doctoral program; and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University, where she taught undergraduate Social Psychology.
Stan Davis
Visionary Business Thinker
Stan Davis is a prominent author, consultant, and speaker on the future of business. For more than 40 years, he has researched and documented the big shifts in science, technology, markets, and organization as they play out on business strategy and implementation. He has 13 books under his belt, with collective sales of more than 1 million copies in 15 languages. He coined the term “mass customization” in the 1980s in his bestseller, Future Perfect (recipient of Tom Peters's "Book of the Decade" Award). Other books include the bestselling Blur (with Chris Meyer), as well as 2020 Vision (with Bill Davidson), Future Wealth (with Chris Meyer), It’s Alive: The Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business (with Chris Meyer), and The Art of Business. His early career as an academic was spent primarily at the Harvard Business School. Stan is active with corporations and institutions as an advisor, educator, and guest presenter, having worked with Apple, AT&T, Bank of America, Citibank, Ernst & Young, Ford, JPMorgan Chase, Mercedes-Benz, and Sun Microsystems. He is longtime advisor to the board of the Massachusetts Medical Society, which publishes the New England Journal of Medicine, the world's most prestigious medical journal.
Sir Richard Dearlove
Renowned Expert on Global Intelligence and Security
Sir Richard Dearlove has established himself as a scarce but in-demand commentator on the new century’s security threats. Only since his retirement as the Chief of British Intelligence in 2004 has he been able to dispose of his hard-won knowledge and experience for the benefit of private audiences. He still keeps an inquisitive media at arms length and refuses to write about his extraordinary career.
Sir Richard joined British Intelligence as a very young front-line officer in 1966 and worked extensively in Africa, behind the Iron Curtain, and in Europe. He experienced the Cold War at first hand and established his reputation quickly as a skillful spymaster. In his recent book, George Tenet describes him as the "spies spy."
Dearlove served as the British Intelligence representative in Washington during the presidency of George H.W. Bush, moving on to fill all of the key senior management roles in MI6, before his appointment in 1999 as ‘C’ (as the Chief of MI6 is known in British Government circles). He sensed early the changing nature of Intelligence work in the post-Cold War world and was radical in his approach to its restructuring, particularly in countering the growing terrorist threat.
At the center of the infamous leaked ‘Downing Street Memo,’ Sir Richard has had an insider’s view of key events and developments – 9/11, the continuing threat from Al Qaeda, Iraq, Afghanistan, the disarmament of Libya, the Iranian nuclear program—and he was of course an interlocutor of some of the leading players. His 38 years in Intelligence, and more than a decade in a leadership role, have given him a unique perspective on this closed and misinterpreted world.
Sir Richard is currently the Master of Pembroke College Cambridge, founded in 1347, one of Cambridge University’s leading teaching and research Colleges. He advises widely on risk and national security. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of AIG, senior advisor to the Monitor Group and Chairman of Ascot Underwriting at Lloyd’s of London. He was knighted by the Queen in 2001.
Cory Doctorow
Technology Activist, Journalist and Science Fiction Writer
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to The Guardian, The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Wired, and many other newspapers, magazines and websites. He was formerly Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. He is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at Open University (UK); in 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.
His novels are published by Tor Books and HarperCollins UK and simultaneously released on the Internet under Creative Commons licenses that encourage their re-use and sharing, a move that increases his sales by enlisting his readers to help promote his work. He has won the Locus and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards. His latest novel, is For the Win, a young adult book about video-games, labor politics and economics. His New York Times Bestseller Little Brother was published in May 2008, and his latest short story collection is Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present. In 2008, Tachyon Books published a collection of his essays, called Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future (with an introduction by John Perry Barlow) and IDW published a collection of comic books inspired by his short fiction called Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now. His latest adult novel is Makers, published by Tor Books/HarperCollins UK in October, 2009.
His critically acclaimed book, Little Brother, was nominated for the 2008 Hugo, Nebula, Sunburst and Locus Awards. It won the Ontario Library White Pine Award, the Prometheus Award as well as the Indienet Award for bestselling young adult novel in America's top 1000 independent bookstores in 2008.
He co-founded the open source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola, sold to OpenText in 2003, and presently serves on the boards and advisory boards of the Participatory Culture Foundation, the MetaBrainz Foundation, Technorati, the Organization for Transformative Works, Areae, the Annenberg Center for the Study of Online Communities, and Onion Networks, Inc.
In 2007, Entertainment Weekly called him, "The William Gibson of his generation." He was also named one of Forbes Magazine's 2007/8/9/10 Web Celebrities, and one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders for 2007.
Judith Donath
Expert on Cognition, Signaling and Social Engagement
Judith Donath synthesizes knowledge from fields such as urban design, evolutionary biology, and cognitive science to build innovative interfaces for on-line communities and virtual identities. A Harvard Berkman Faculty Fellow and formerly director of the Sociable Media Group at MIT Media Lab, her work focuses on cognition, social visualization, interface design, and mediated interaction. Judith has created groundbreaking work in social media and on-line information display. She created several of the earliest social applications for the web, including the first postcard service and the first interactive juried art show. Her work with the Sociable Media Group has been shown in museums and galleries worldwide, and was recently the subject of a major exhibition at the MIT Museum.
Her current research focuses on understanding the social economics underlying communication, both face to face and on-line. Her insights bring a fresh understanding into the messages embodied in fashion, faces, gifts, and other aspects of daily life. She compellingly shows how this understanding can help create environments that promote cooperation and trust.
Judith has two books in progress, one on the design of sociable media and one which explores how we signal identity in both mediated and face-to-face interactions. She received her doctoral and master's degrees in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT, her bachelor's degree in History from Yale University, and has worked professionally as a designer and builder of educational software and experimental media.
Esther Dyson
Influential Venture Capitalist; Commentator, Emerging Digital Technology & Health
Esther Dyson, named by Forbes magazine as one of the most powerful women in American business, is the founder and chairman of EDventure. She is considered one of the most influential voices in the Internet industry as a board member and/or early investor in several companies that helped define tech startup success, among them Flickr, Meetup, del.icio.us, and Technorati. Over the last few years, Esther has been focusing more and more of her time and energy on private aviation and commercial space startups, as well as on health care and genetics companies.
Esther is currently on the board of directors of 23andMe, a startup with the mission to be the world's trusted source of personal genetic information, and a trustee of the Personal Genome Project. She also recently finished six months of cosmonaut training in Russia and serves on the NASA Advisory Council.
Tamara Erickson
Award-winning Author; Expert on Organizations, the Changing Workforce, and Generations at Work
Tamara J. Erickson is a McKinsey Award-winning author and widely respected expert on collaboration and innovation–on building talent and enhancing productivity–and on the nature of work in the intelligent economy. Her work is based on extensive research on the changing workforce and employee values and, most recently, on how successful organizations innovate through collaboration. Tammy has authored or co-authored numerous Harvard Business Review articles, including “It’s Time to Retire Retirement,” winner of the McKinsey Award, an MIT Sloan Management Review article, and the book Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent. She recently completed a trilogy of books on how individuals in specific generations can excel in today’s workplace: Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation, What’s Next, Gen X? Keeping Up, Moving Ahead and Getting the Career You Want and Plugged In: The Generation Y Guide to Thriving at Work.
An interactive, engaging keynote presenter, reactions from participants in Tammy’s sessions consistently rate hers as some of the most powerful insights into the generations they’ve ever heard, affecting not only their future work relationships, but lending new understanding into family dynamics. Tammy offers a fundamentally optimistic point of view, along with fascinating trends and actionable counsel. Perhaps more importantly, she will build-to-suit, depending on your learning objectives. Her blog, Across the Ages, appears on the Harvard Business Review site where it is the highest-rated blog. Her entries address how the talent shortage and shifting employee values will create opportunities for individuals—and challenges for corporations that aren't prepared! Tammy's article "Leading Across the Ages" was one of Harvard Business Review's Breakthrough Ideas of 2008. HarvardBusiness.org created a Best of 2007, a collection of the editors' favorite content from the entire year. Three of the 19 selections are based on Tammy's work.
Dean Esserman
Highly Acclaimed Police Chief
By promoting novel approaches like “social justice” and community policing, New Haven's Chief of Police, Dean Esserman has transformed several police departments and—along the way—earned national recognition modeling leadership in his profession. He has attracted the attention of business leaders intrigued by his innovative, invigorating management style and his ability to affect large-scale change. All of this from a former pre-med student.
Dean’s journey began unconventionally during his sophomore year at Dartmouth College. He was studying history and pre-med when he accepted an off-term internship through Dartmouth’s Medical School to help design and establish a medical rescue unit for the New York Transit Police. The experience changed Dean, who became fascinated by the unexpected responsibilities required by cops in their daily work. As America’s first responders, police are called to handle myriad social situations—women in labor, landlord disputes, even malfunctioning heating systems in tenement buildings. Dean realized that—through a career in law enforcement—he could make a real, measurable impact on his community. Dean decided to forego a degree in medicine and pursue law school instead, and so began his lifelong passion and commitment to public service.
After graduating from NYU Law School, he served as Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn and then General Counsel to the New York Transit Police. During his tenure in New York, he found a mentor in Chief William Bratton, one of the nation’s most visible, successful police chiefs. Dean remains Bratton’s protégé today. “I could see from the start he was just this very bright individual with a New York background and someone with one of the most extensive collections of books about police and crime I’d ever seen,” recalls Bratton, the current chief of the LAPD.
Dean left his New York post to serve as the Assistant Chief of Police for New Haven, CT. There, he implemented the city's first community policing plan and the state's first federally-funded drug gang task force, and he cut crime city-wide.
Following his position in New Haven, Dean assumed the Chief of Police role for the M.T.A. Metro North Police Department, where he led an agency-wide terrorism threat-assessment study and implemented a multi-million dollar security upgrade at Grand Central station. In 1998, he was appointed Chief of Police in Stamford, Connecticut, where his philosophy of community-oriented policing contributed to a 50% reduction in the city’s crime rate.
In January 2003, when new Providence Mayor David Cicilline took office, the police department had been accused of favoritism and corruption. Cicilline’s predecessor, Vincent A. “Buddy” Cianci, had created a criminal enterprise riddled with corruption, and crime was ever-escalating. One of the mayor’s first orders of business was to turn the police force around, and he called on Dean Esserman to do it. Esserman revamped the city’s crime-fighting force and replaced the department’s traditional methods with a community policing concept. The results? An inspired command staff, a double digit drop in Providence’s overall crime rate for three years running, and a transformed city. In 2011, New Haven's mayor brought Dean back to his city as Chief of Police to implement his innovative approaches to bring about change.
Dean is a graduate Dartmouth College (B.A.) and New York University School of Law (J.D.). He holds a faculty appointment at the Yale University Child Study Center. He is a member of the New York and Massachusetts Bar and currently serves as the Senior Law Enforcement Executive-in-Residence at the Roger Williams University Justice System Training and Research Institute.
Laura Fitton
Prominent "Micro-Blogger" and Social Media Consultant
Called by some Twitter's original Cinderella story and the Queen of Twitter, Laura "@Pistachio" Fitton is credited with explaining Twitter's value to Guy Kawasaki and dozens of other tech leaders. She has been speaking professionally about the business use of Twitter since October 2007, and by popular demand launched Pistachio Consulting, the first Twitter for Business consultancy, in September 2008. In 2009, Laura founded oneforty.com (@oneforty) to help people understand Twitter and the exploding ecosystem of applications and services built on it. Called “the app store for Twitter” by TechCrunch, oneforty is the place to find, rate, collect and share the best ways to use Twitter. In 2011, oneforty.com was acquired by Hubspot, a leading social media marketing firm, where Laura has taken on the role of Inbound Marketing Evangelist. She is also the co-author of Twitter for Dummies (@dummies).
She's lectured on the topic at Harvard Business School, for Cornell's Entrepreneurs' Network (she is an alum) and at numerous conferences and other universities. Consulting clients include Ford and Johnson & Johnson and she's been quoted in more than 50 national publications including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Newsweek, and BusinessWeek.
Even closer to her heart, Laura believes that everyone can benefit - dramatically - from what Twitter has to offer, and shares her own 'isolated mom to sought-after author' story as an example of its power to overcome isolation. The people you meet on Twitter can remove obstacles that hold us back in our everyday lives. In December 2008 she showed how Twitter can bring thousands together to achieve big change with very small donations, building five wells in the developing world with her @WellWishes holiday wish campaign for Charity:Water.
Laura is a magna cum laude graduate of Cornell University's eclectic College Scholar program. In "past lives" she studied science writing with Carl Sagan, rock climbed, sailed on a schooner, raised a niece, ran a hobby farm, traveled and lived abroad.
You can follow her adventures and mishaps on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/pistachio, or learn more about how to be a part of the next @WellWishes at http://twitter.com/wellwishes.
Joe Fuller
Organization and Strategy Expert; Founder, Monitor Group
Joseph Fuller is a co-founder of Monitor and works with clients in a variety of industries, particularly those with a heavy reliance on technology. He has deep experience in two of the world's most dynamic sectors, life sciences and telecommunications, and has advised leading companies and regulatory bodies in both industries. Some of Joe's areas of functional expertise include corporate strategy—including M&A strategy and integration—corporate governance, and organizational dynamics.
An extensive contributor to Monitor's intellectual property, his interest in research began during his collaboration with Professor Michael Porter of Harvard Business School on the development of the concepts presented in Porter's book, Competitive Advantage. In recent years, he has worked closely with Professor Michael Jensen on the interaction of the capital markets and companies' decision-making processes with a particular focus on corporate governance. Widely published, his work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The Washington Post, and Harvard Business Review.
Dan Gillmor
Expert on Citizen Media and the Internet
Dan Gillmor is a leading authority on the phenomenon of media literacy and citizen journalism. As founding director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication he is a leader in the effort to help create a culture of innovation and risk-taking in journalism education, and in the wider media world. Dan also serves as the school's Kauffman Professor of digital media entrepreneurship.
One of the preeminent thinkers on the topic of new media, Dan brings deep knowledge of the collision of media and technology and its impact. His most recent book, Mediactive, explores 21st century media and the new rules for engagement in today's connected world. He is also the author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, a book that explains the rise of citizens' media and why it matters. Dan is also a regular contributor to the Guardian.
Dan has been a co-founder, investor and advisor in a number of media ventures in the for-profit and non-profit worlds. He is a board member of the First Amendment Coalition, which advocates and litigates on behalf of freedom of speech and open public records.
Dan spent more than 25 years in the newspaper industry as a reporter, writer, and editor and remains a highly-respected journalist. For more than a decade, he was a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper, and wrote a weblog for SiliconValley.com. He joined the San Jose Mercury News after six years with the Detroit Free Press. Before that, he was with the Kansas City Times and several newspapers in Vermont. He has won or shared in several regional and national journalism awards.
Thomas Gilovich
Behavioral Scientist, Expert on Decision Making; Professor, Cornell University
Thomas Gilovich researches how people evaluate information in their everyday and professional lives, and how they use that information to draw conclusions, form beliefs, and embark on courses of action. He is also interested in the emotional states that both influence and follow from people’s judgments. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health. An award-winning teacher, Tom is a Professor of Psychology at Cornell University and co-director of the Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision Research. He has authored several books on these and related topics, notably How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life, and with Gary Belsky, Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes—and How to Correct Them: Lessons from the New Science of Behavioral Economics.
Tom received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of California and his PhD in Psychology from Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Noah Goldstein
Behavioral Scientist; Expert on Persuasion and Influence
Noah Goldstein's research centers on persuasion and compliance—essentially how to win support for one’s ideas, initiatives, proposals, and products. His research has been published in the top academic journals in psychology and marketing. Noah's work on persuasion was featured by Harvard Business Review as one of only 20 “Breakthrough Ideas in 2009.” He is a faculty member at the UCLA Anderson School of Management where he teaches courses on Persuasion, Organizational Behavior, and Leadership.
In addition, Goldstein has consulted for a number of organizations, including Accenture, the United States Census Bureau, and the United States Forest Service. He also currently sits on the Scientific Advisory Boards of two Fortune Global 500 companies, the Allianz Global Investors Center for Behavioral Finance and Express Scripts Inc.’s Center for Cost-Effective Consumerism.
Noah’s work has been quoted widely in the news media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, the BBC, and National Public Radio. Finally, he is co-author of a book on persuasion called Yes!, a New York Times bestseller now translated in over 25 languages.
Ben Gomes-Casseres
Strategy and Alliance Expert
Ben Gomes-Casseres is an expert on global strategy, with a focus on business combinations. Ben consults, teaches, and speaks worldwide on international business, alliance strategy, and acquisition strategy. He has researched this topic for 20 years, taught it to MBAs and executives, and consulted with major companies in the United States and abroad. He is best known for his writings and consulting on alliance strategy, but he has also worked on international management, competitive strategy, technology policy, mergers and acquisitions, and organizational development.
Ben is currently a Professor at Brandeis International Business School, where he directs the MBA Program and the Asper Center for Global Entrepreneurship. Previously, he was a professor at the Harvard Business School and an economist at the World Bank. He is principal and owner of Alliance Strategy Consulting.
He has written or edited four books; his latest, Mastering Alliance Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide to Design, Management, and Organization, gives practical advice on how to use alliances as part of corporate strategy. His book The Alliance Revolution: The New Shape of Business Rivalry was one of the first in-depth studies of today’s high-tech alliances, and introduced the idea of competition among alliance “constellations.” His articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, Strategy & Business, Sloan Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Financial Economics, and elsewhere. His work has been cited widely, including in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Harvard Management Update. He has also written numerous cases at Harvard Business School; his case on the development of Fuji Xerox in Japan is an HBS bestseller.
He holds a BA in History and Economics from Brandeis, an MPA in Economic Development from Princeton, and a DBA in International Business from Harvard. Born and raised in Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles), he speaks four languages (English, Dutch, Spanish, and Papiamentu), and is a dual citizen of the United States and the Netherlands.
Marc Goodman
Leading Authority on the Future of Global Security, Cyber Crime and Terrorism
Marc Goodman is an internationally acclaimed expert on the unanticipated influences technology wreaks on security, business and international affairs. With over twenty years of global experience in cyber crime, cyber terrorism and information warfare, he has worked with INTERPOL, the United Nations, NATO, the U.S. Department of State and the Los Angeles Police Department. He is frequently sought after by global policy makers, corporate leaders, and security executives on technology related security threats. Marc provides audiences a front seat view into the digital underground on emerging technology, geopolitical, and security trends that will drastically redefine the markets in which they operate.
Founder of the Future Crimes Institute, Marc’s current areas of research spotlight the security implications of disruptive technologies: artificial intelligence, the social data revolution, synthetic biology, virtual worlds, robotics, ubiquitous computing and location-based services. Marc serves as the faculty advisor for global security at Silicon Valley's Singularity University, a NASA and Google sponsored venture dedicated to using advanced science and technology to address humanity's grand challenges. In addition, he advises NATO as a subject matter expert on Critical Cyber Infrastructure Protection and the UN Counterterrorism Task Force on terrorist use of the Internet.
Marc began his career in Los Angeles as a street police officer with assignments in patrol, undercover operations, and investigations. With the LAPD, Marc received numerous awards, including the City's highest possible unit citation for his pioneering work in high-tech policing. While there, Marc founded the LAPD's Internet unit to deal with the emerging impact of technology on crime and criminality. For more than a decade, Marc worked with INTERPOL, the International Criminal Police Organization, having chaired numerous INTERPOL expert groups on emerging security threats. In that capacity, Marc trained police and security forces throughout the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America and Asia and has worked in 70 countries around the world.
Marc holds both a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a Master of Science in Management of Information Systems from the London School of Economics & Political Science.
Sam Gosling
Psychologist, Author, Expert on Human Perception
Sam Gosling is an author and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a nationally regarded researcher and innovator in the field of personality and social psychology. His work has been widely covered in the media, including The New York Times, Psychology Today, NPR, and "Good Morning America," and his research is featured in Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. Gosling is the recipient of the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution.
Gosling’s book, Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You, is a provocative and witty look at how our private spaces—from boardroom to bedroom—reveal our personalities, whether we know it or not! Does what's on your desk reveal what's on your mind? Do those pictures on your walls tell true tales about you? For the last ten years Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their inner selves. By exploring our private worlds, he explores not only how we showcase our personalities in unexpected—and unplanned—ways, but also how we create personality in the first place, communicate it others, and interpret the world around us.
Jeremy Heimans
Architect of Social Movements; Co-founder and CEO, Purpose
Jeremy Heimans has been at the forefront of developing and leading socio-political movements worldwide with the aim of addressing global issues for over two decades. His expertise and thought leadership in technology, advocacy and economics are responsible for acclaimed and sustained non-profit and corporate-based movements. He is co-founder and CEO of Purpose.com, a social enterprise that mobilizes millions of citizens and consumers to help solve major global problems. Purpose has built global movements to fight cancer (with LIVESTRONG) and eliminate nuclear weapons in 20 years (with Global Zero, a new initiative led by more than 200 world leaders and endorsed by President Obama) and is currently building a national movement to change America’s food culture with Jamie Oliver. Purpose recently launched All Out, the world’s first global movement organization for LGBT people and their allies.
In 2007, Jeremy co-founded Avaaz.org, the world’s largest online citizens’ movement, with ten million members. In 2005, he co-founded GetUp.org, an Australian political movement and internationally recognized social movement phenomenon that today has more members than all of Australia's political parties combined. In 2004, he co-founded an advocacy group in the US presidential elections that ran a highly publicized online and media campaign, raising millions of dollars in small online donations.
Jeremy has been recognized by organizations worldwide for his influence and impact on social movements. In 2011, he received the Ford Foundation's 75th Anniversary Visionary Award for his work as a movement pioneer and World Economic Forum at Davos named him a Young Global Leader. His work has been recognized in publications like The Economist and The New York Times. Jeremy began his career with the strategy consultants McKinsey and Company. He was educated at Harvard University and the University of Sydney. He is a citizen of Australia and the Netherlands, and lives in New York.
Andrew Heyward
Media Maven and Commentator
Andrew Heyward is a nationally recognized media expert whose particular area of expertise is the rapidly shifting media landscape.
Andrew is a senior advisor to Monitor Group. He works with clients to create and strengthen original online content, make more effective use of broadband video, deepen engagement through online communities, and develop new business models for the digital era.
Heyward was President, CBS News, from January 1996-November 2005.
During that time, CBS News programming grew significantly in audience, regularly scheduled hours and profitability. Under Heyward’s leadership, CBS News’s tradition of journalistic quality and integrity was recognized with an extraordinary number of broadcast journalism’s most prestigious awards: 57 News and Documentary Emmys, 13 Peabody, 13 Alfred I. DuPont/Columbia University, six Overseas Press Club and 46 RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow Awards. The list of Murrows includes seven for Overall Excellence: four for television—including 2003, 2004 and 2005—and three on the radio side.
Heyward also spearheaded CBS News’s move into new media. Its award-winning website, CBSNews.com, became increasingly competitive and was a leader in providing free, advertiser-supported broadband video. Heyward also was a key force in the establishment of the leading financial news website, CBS MarketWatch, and served on its board of directors from its founding in 1997 to its acquisition by Dow Jones in January 2005.
Before his tenure as President, Heyward was executive producer, CBS Evening News, and Vice President, CBS News (October 1994-January 1996). Heyward was also responsible for developing and launching 48 Hours, the primetime CBS News hour that premiered in January 1988. He has won 12 national Emmy Awards.
Heyward was born in New York. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a B.A. in history and literature.
Jack D. Hidary
Entrepreneur, Change Agent for Clean Energy and Economic Development
Jack D. Hidary built his career as an entrepreneur in the finance and technology sectors and is a leading expert on innovation across several industries.
In 1995, Jack co-founded and served as President and CEO of EarthWeb/Dice. He raised three private rounds of equity and completed a record breaking IPO and secondary for a total raise of $150+ million. Under his leadership, EarthWeb/Dice earned the prestigious BusinessWeek Info Tech 100 award. Dice is the leading IT job board today and is listed on the NYSE as DHX.
Jack is the founder and Chairman of Samba Energy, the leading marketplace for commercial solar projects and financing. Samba’s marketplace has driven down the cost of commercial solar and thus increased the ROI for companies using the market for their solar programs.
Today, Jack is particularly involved in issues of energy and transportation. He is the co-founder of the $10 million Auto X Prize (www.xprize.org) which challenged competitors for a 100 mpg car that can be manufactured at scale. The first X Prize of $10 million was awarded to Paul Allen’s team for reaching space with no government support. Jack serves on the board of trustees of the X Prize.
In addition, he was the co-architect of the successful “Cash for Clunkers” program. The aim of this program was to stimulate the economy by promoting auto sales and reduce America’s dependence on oil. Congress funded the program at $3 billion and the program swapped out 700,000 vehicles in eight weeks with an average increase in MPG of more than 60%. Cash for Clunkers contributed a significant portion of GDP growth for Q3 ’09 at a critical time in the US economy.
Committed to community and philanthropic causes, he has received several industry and community awards as well as being recognized as a Global Leader of Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum, Davos. He is also a founding member of the Clinton Global Initiative.
He serves on several boards including the advisory council for the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL). Jack is chairman of the National Lab Network, an educational partnership including the Gates Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and leading companies committed to improved science education.
Jack studied philosophy and neuroscience at Columbia University and was then awarded a Stanley Fellowship in Clinical Neuroscience at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Under the fellowship, he conducted research in functional neuroimaging using techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET) and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to study brain and disease states.
Peter Hirshberg
Marketing Innovator and Serial Entrepreneur
Peter Hirshberg is at the epicenter of the noisy, connected world of online conversation. He is changing our thinking about marketing, branding and customer relationships. A Silicon Valley executive with several high profile marketing and branding related ventures, Peter has led emerging media and technology companies at the center of disruptive change for more than 20 years.
He is a Co-Founder of The Re:imagine Group, a fast growing agency helping brands with strategy and marketing in a world of empowered and connected audiences and customers. He's worked with executive teams at Best Buy, Sony, IBM, Verizon, Estee Lauder, Syfy and many others on digital and growth strategies. Peter is also Chairman of the board of advisers of Technorati, the largest social media ad network with an audience of over 108 million unique visitors a month on over 400 professionally run sites with over a billion monthly page views.
Hirshberg is a board member of ActiveVideo Networks and serves on the advisory boards of Ideeli and GlamMedia. He is a Trustee of The Computer History Museum and a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. Since 2009 he's been an advisor at the MIT Sensable Cities Lab and a Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy
Hirshberg is also Co-Founder of San Francisco's Grey Area Foundation for the Arts, whose gallery space, studios and programs bring together artists, developers, the tech community and the public to explore digital culture. Guided by the principles of openness, collaboration, and resource sharing, GAFFTA promotes creativity at the intersection of art, design, sound, and technology.
Previously Hirshberg served as president and CEO of Gloss.com, the online prestige beauty etailer co-owned by Estee Lauder Companies, Chanel and Clarins. He was founder and CEO of Elemental Software (sold to Macromedia in 1999).
During a nine-year tenure at Apple Computer, Hirshberg headed Enterprise Marketing, where he grew Apple's large business and government revenue to $1 billion annually and helped lead the company’s entry into the online service arena. After leaving Apple, Hirshberg's new-media strategy firm served clients including America Online, Microsoft, NBC Television Network, Estee Lauder, Pacific Bell and Silicon Graphics.
Peter Hirshberg earned his bachelor's degree at Dartmouth College and his MBA at Wharton.
John Hogan
Strategic Pricing Expert
Pricing strategy is not simply about raising prices! It's about building a foundation for profitable growth. John Hogan, co-author of The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing 4th ed., is a recognized thought leader on the topic of strategic pricing and building pricing capabilities within the firm. His fifteen years of pricing experience have focused heavily on competitive pricing issues, price execution, and go-to-market strategies that enable more profitable growth.
As founder of Value Management Advisors, John works with clients to develop more effective pricing strategies in a range of industries including technology, healthcare, software, information services, distribution, manufacturing, professional services, and consumer goodes markets.
Most recently, John has focused on the strategic pricing issues related to two-sided markets – working with clients to evaluate how the upstream and downstream network effects combine to impact value creation, and then helping them to develop more profitable pricing strategies and business models.
Prior to Value Management Advisors, John was a Partner at Monitor Group – a global management consulting firm – where he served on the leadership team for the Strategic Pricing practice. Earlier in his career, he managed corporate pricing strategies for General Motors including overseeing competitive pricing, market communications, and price setting.
Paul Horn
Distinguished Scientist in Residence, NYU; former Director of IBM Research
Dr. Paul M. Horn was named NYU Distinguished Scientist in Residence and NYU Stern Executive in Residence in September of 2007. Prior to his NYU position he was Senior Vice President of the IBM Corporation and Executive Director of Research. In this job he directed IBM’s worldwide Research program with 3200 technical employees in eight sites in five countries around the world, and helped guide IBM’s overall technical strategy. Dr. Horn transformed IBM’s research and development model into an engine of innovation and growth. Under his watch, IBM created the Deep Blue and Blue Gene supercomputers, pioneered the use of copper and "self-assembly" in chip manufacturing, and created new disciplines in autonomic computing and services science. Dr. Horn was a champion for translating technology based research into marketplace opportunities. Trained as a solid state physicist he has held, key management positions in science, semiconductors, and storage; successfully applying these disciplines to solving real world technology problems. Dr. Horn’s top priority as head of IBM’s Research Division was to stimulate innovation and innovative business model and quickly bring those innovations into the marketplace to sustain and grow IBM’s businesses, and to create the new businesses of IBM’s future.
Born in New York, Dr. Horn graduated from Clarkson College of Technology and received his doctoral degree in physics from the University of Rochester in 1973. Prior to joining IBM in 1979, Dr. Horn was a professor of physics in the James Franck Institute and the Physics Department and at the University of Chicago. Dr. Horn is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow from 1974-1978. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a former Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters and has published over 85 scientific and technical papers.
Dr. Horn has received numerous awards including the 1988 Bertram Eugene Warren award from the American Crystallographic Association, the 2000 Distinguished Leadership award from the New York Hall of Science, the 2002 Hutchison Medal from the University of Rochester, and the 2002 Pake Prize from the American Physical Society. In 2003 Dr. Horn was named as one of the top computing business leaders in the US by Scientific American magazine. He is also a member of numerous professional committees including three in Washington: the GAO (General Accountability Office) board of advisors, the Gallaudet University Advisory Board, and the board of trustees of the Committee for Economic Development. He is also on the Clarkson University and the New York Polytechnic Board of Trustees, the UC Berkeley Industrial Advisory Board, and is a trustee of the New York Hall of Science.
Yukon Huang
Senior Advisor and Former Director, World Bank China Program
Yukon Huang is a noted expert on financial and development issues for emerging markets, with a focus on East Asia (China in particular) as well as the Former Soviet Union. He is currently a consultant and senior advisor to the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, various governments and private companies.
He was the World Bank’s first field based Country Director for China from 1997-2004 and from 1992-97 Director for Russia and Central Asia. As Director, he was responsible for the Bank’s two largest lending programs, which included developing, negotiating and supervising investment loans totaling over $20 billion. These involved some 100 projects ranging from major power systems, to financial restructuring and basic education. He also supervised a program of research and policy studies covering economic and financial issues for these countries.
From 2004 to 2006, as the Senior Advisor to the East Asia Vice-President, he managed a broad range of financial and development issues for East Asia.
In previous World Bank assignments he was responsible for overseeing the Bank’s overall lending and risk assessment policies and also served as Lead Economist and Country Operations Chief for Asia.
Prior to joining the Bank, Dr. Huang worked at the US Treasury on international economic issues and taught and conducted research at various universities in the United States, Asia and Africa.
His publications have included in-depth studies on a number of key emerging markets in Asia, Europe and Africa as well as fiscal and financial policies for developing countries more generally. His recent work includes a volume of country studies on how location and spatial factors have affected growth in East Asia (Reshaping Economic Geography in East Asia) and an edited collection of papers by noted specialists on the future of East Asia (East Asia Visions: Perspectives on Economic Development).
Dr. Huang received his B.A. in Economics from Yale University. His Masters and Ph.D. in Economics are from Princeton University.
Larry Keeley
Innovation Master
Larry Keeley is a business advisor and speaker who has worked to develop more effective growth strategies and innovation methods for over 27 years. He is president and co-founder of Doblin Inc., a Monitor Group company and a partner in the Monitor Group. By applying proprietary, comprehensive innovation systems, Doblin has consistently and materially improved its clients’ innovation success rates.
BusinessWeek named Keeley one of seven Innovation Gurus who are changing the field, and specifically cited Doblin for having many of the most sophisticated tools for delivering innovation effectiveness.
Since 1979, Keeley has worked on innovation effectiveness at companies including Aetna, American Express, Amoco, Apple, BP, Citigroup, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Ford, GE, McDonald’s, Monsanto, Motorola, Novartis, Pfizer, Shell, SKT, Steelcase, Target, Texas Instruments, WellPoint, Whirlpool, and Zurich Financial Services. He lectures frequently and publishes regularly on strategic aspects of innovation.
Larry teaches graduate innovation strategy classes at the Institute of Design in Chicago, the first design school in the U.S. with a Ph.D. program, where he is also a board member. He lectures at executive education programs at Kellogg Graduate School of Management and in their Masters of Manufacturing Management program, and at business schools around the world. Keeley was a Senior Fellow of the Center for Business Innovation, in Boston. He is also a board member for Chicago Public Radio, where he has charted strategy for what has become the most innovative station in the public radio network in the U.S.
Eamonn Kelly
Futurist, Change Agent, and Strategic Thought Partner
Eamonn Kelly sits at the forefront of exploring the emergence of a new economic, social, and geopolitical order and its far-reaching consequences for organizations and individuals.
A partner at Monitor Group, Eamonn leads the firm's network, thought leadership and marketing initiatives. For 10 years previously, he served as CEO and president of Global Business Network (GBN), the renowned futures network and scenario strategy consultancy. He has developed insights, tools, and methodologies for mastering uncertainty and has consulted to dozens of the world’s leading corporations in many sectors and global and national public agencies. Prior to joining GBN, Eamonn was head of strategy at Scottish Enterprise, one of the world's most respected development agencies, where he led the creation of effective strategies for economic and social development in a new era. In his highly acclaimed book, Powerful Times: Rising to the Challenge of Our Uncertain World, Eamonn weaves together seven powerful “dynamic tensions” that will fundamentally reshape human life in the coming decades. He offers breakthrough insights into how these tensions will conflict and interact to create huge waves of change beyond anything society has experienced previously.
Kevin Kelly
Technology Visionary
Kevin Kelly has been a participant of, and reporter on, the information technology revolution for the past 20 years. Based in his studio in Pacifica, California, he immerses himself in the long-term trends of technology, tools, new media, and cultural behavior. He writes about the ripple effects and social consequences surrounding the culture of technology. Kevin's most recent book is entitled What Technology Wants and presents a refreshing view of technology as a living force in the world. Kevin Kelly is currently Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He helped launch Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor until January 1999. During Kelly’s tenure as editor at Wired, the magazine won two National Magazine Awards (the industry’s equivalent of two Oscars). He is also currently editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets 1 million visitors per month. From 1984-1990, Kevin was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy, and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control (called “required reading for all executives” by Fortune). In addition, he writes for prominent publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Time, Harpers, Science, GQ, and Esquire. Earlier in life, Kevin was a photographer in remote parts of Asia (instead of going to college), publishing his photographs in national magazines and recently in the photo art book Asia Grace.
Vanessa Kirsch
Social Entrepreneur; President and Founder of New Profit Inc.
Vanessa Kirsch is the President and Founder of New Profit Inc. With more than 17 years of experience in developing innovative solutions to social problems, Vanessa is widely recognized as a leading social entrepreneur. Her experience, combined with a trip around the world in 1995 when she met with other social entrepreneurs, citizen leaders, philanthropists, and political officials, led her to start New Profit.
New Profit is a national venture philanthropy fund that unites engaged philanthropists with visionary social entrepreneurs to grow their social innovations to scale. Partnering with social entrepreneurs who are focused on a range of issues from early childhood literacy to college access for low-income youth, New Profit provides performance-based grants, strategic guidance, coaching, and performance management techniques for nonprofit organizations to maximize the impact of their work to create long-term social change. New Profit is funded by a community of passionate, social change investors who are eager to identify, support, and grow high-impact nonprofits.
Prior to launching New Profit, Vanessa founded and led two nonprofit organizations, Public Allies and the Women's Information Network. Public Allies, a national youth service organization, grew to six cities under Vanessa's leadership and was named by the Bush Administration as one of eight model national service programs in America, and by the Clinton Administration as an official AmeriCorps national service model. The Woman's Information Network (WIN), an organization that provides support, training, and political access to young women, grew to a membership of 2,000. Prior to launching these entrepreneurial organizations, Vanessa worked with Peter Hart of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, a polling firm, and played a key role in several projects including a study on young people's civic attitudes. This study, combined with her experience as a convention manager and field coordinator for the Dukakis presidential campaign, led her to start Public Allies.
Vanessa has received numerous public service awards and recognition for her work. In 2007, she received the Boston History & Innovation Collaborative’s History & Innovation Award for Social Innovation. In 2005, Ernst & Young named Vanessa “Entrepreneur of the Year” in the category of Social Entrepreneurship, an award that recognizes the innovation, vision, and tenacity of New England’s top entrepreneurs. Vanessa also has been recognized by both Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report as a leader of her generation; by Forbes as one of 15 innovators who will reinvent the future; by Harper’s Bazaar as one of 30 young women to be leaders in the 21st century; by Fast Company as "Who’s Fast 2000"; and by the Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” as one of the most promising leaders in Boston. Additionally, she was selected as one of the World Economic Forum’s Global Leaders for Tomorrow (GLT) for the year 2003. Currently, Vanessa serves on the Board of Overseers to Tufts University’s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, and on the Board of College Summit.
Vanessa is a graduate of Tufts University where she served as a TCU Senator and student member on the Board of Trustees and currently serves on the Alumni Council.
Joel Kurtzman
Leading Champion of Better Management Practice
Joel Kurtzman is a noted author and advisor to leading organizations around the world in the areas of leadership, social capital, governance, and assessing and managing global risk. His expertise is highlighted by his long, successful career forecasting global events, from oil-price shocks to the dollar’s ups and downs. Joel’s vantage point in understanding and relating business implications comes from the fact that he has held both positions of senior strategic business leader and journalist responsible for reporting and translating business issues. Whether presenting to business leaders or government officials, Joel presents his ideas with one overarching concept in mind: provide thought leadership that creates value and sustainable growth.
Joel Kurtzman is a senior fellow, executive director of the Center for a Sustainable Energy Future, and publisher of The Milken Institute Review. Previously, he was global lead partner for Thought Leadership and Innovation at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was responsible for developing new, marketable ideas in strategy, technology, the capital markets and business policy. He was also responsible for the firm's Menlo Park Technology Research Centre, its technology forecasting teams and its innovative R&D.
Joel is the former editor of the Harvard Business Review and a former member of the editorial board of Harvard Business School Publishing. He was also business editor and columnist at The New York Times. He was a columnist for Fortune, Chief Executive and the European Business Forum, and was an on-air book reviewer at CNN.
Donald Laurie
Leadership Innovator, Growth Strategist, and Business Builder
Donald Laurie is recognized throughout the world for his work on leadership and growth issues. His talks provide an engaging and insightful look at the work of leadership in managing adaptive challenges–issues for which there are no easy answers. He co-authored the Harvard Business Review classic, “The Work of Leadership” which is the best-selling reprint on leadership in the history of HBR. The leadership principles in the article have helped executives, organizations and industries transform how they operate and better meet the challenges of the 21st Century. Donald has worked with both corporate clients as well as the military in creating sustainable leadership programs.
“Creating New Growth Platforms,” also published in HBR, provided executives and managers in large global and start-up companies with a disciplined and systematic approach to re-conceive their growth strategies and focus on building new growth platforms, rather than (less value creating) individual products. Creating multiple products, services, applications and businesses has created top line growth and shareholder value in mature industries and high-growth domains including mobile communications, information technology, healthcare, consumer and others.
Donald is Chief Executive of Oyster International LLC. He works with chief executives and senior management in developing and executing their leadership agendas in corporate . He is a frequent speaker at corporate management conferences, CEO summits, BusinessWeek roundtables and such high-profile venues as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
He led the Harvard Business School, INSEAD and Oyster International research: The CEO Agenda and Growth and is the author of two books, The Real Work of Leaders and Venture Catalyst: The Five Strategies of Explosive Corporate Growth.
He is an investor, business builder and director of a number of early and mid-stage companies including: Up-to-Date, Endeca Technologies, TEI Bioscience, Lazarus Effect, Transenterix and Semprus Bioscience.
He is on the Board of Trustees of St. Benedict’s Prep and an active contributor to the work of the Institute for Health Care Improvement. He is on the selection committee for the USNA and HBR Ethical Leadership Award presented annually at the Leadership Excellence Summit at the United States Naval Academy.
Edward Lawler
Human Resource & Organizational Effectiveness Expert
Edward E. Lawler III is Distinguished Professor of Business at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business and founder and director of the University's Center for Effective Organizations (CEO). CEO has been recognized by Fortune and other publications as one of the country's leading management research organizations.
Professor Lawler has been honored as a major contributor to theory, research, and practice in the fields of human resources management, compensation, organizational development, and organizational effectiveness.
BusinessWeek has proclaimed Lawler one of the top six gurus in the field of management, and Human Resource Executive called him one of HR's most influential people. Workforce magazine identified him as one of the 25 visionaries who have shaped today's workplace over the past century. National television appearances include The Today Show, CNN, MSNBC, and CNBC.
Professor Lawler is the author and co-author of 36 books. His book, Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness, co-authored with Christopher G. Worley, is a groundbreaking book that shows how organizations can be "built to change" so they can last and succeed in today's global economy.
Professor Lawler is the recipient of many awards including SHRM's Michael R. Losey award for which he was the first recipient. He is also a consultant to many governments and corporations including the majority of the Fortune 100.
Mats Lederhausen
Investor and Advisor to Purpose-Driven Enterprises
After a long career both as a Joint Venture Partner and as a senior executive of McDonald’s Corporation, Mats Lederhausen formed his own company in early 2007. The company is focused on building businesses with a "purpose bigger than their products®" This philosophy is based on both ancient philosophy as well as observations and experience from companies that were propelled by a strong purpose. Brands that have a strong conviction around why they exist and who they exist to serve will end up attracting better employees and more loyal customers and therefore ultimately be more successful.
BE-CAUSE will also do selective consulting projects for companies in the areas of CSR, Corporate Reputation, Innovation and Strategy. But the primary focus is on providing intellectual and financial capital to companies that want to scale an already proven business model.
Prior to forming BE-CAUSE, Mats served as Managing Director of McDonald’s Ventures. McDonald’s Ventures managed the investments McDonald’s held in future oriented growth initiatives including Chipotle Mexican Grill, Boston Market, RedBox DVD and Pret A Manger. As a director, Chairman and finally lead director of Chipotle from 2000-2006, Mats helped shape the strategy that ultimately led to one of the most successful restaurant IPOs of all times. Mats was on the founding team of RedBox and served on its board until Coinstar acquired McDonald's stake in RedBox in the spring of 2009.
Mats joined McDonald’s Corporation in 1999 as head of global strategy. During the next 4 years he had the responsibility for global strategy and business development. As President of Business Development Mats later assumed responsibility for worldwide menu, worldwide real estate and restaurant R&D. During these years Mats played a key role in shaping the agenda that later has helped McDonald’s complete one of the most successful corporate turnarounds in recent history.
Born in Stockholm, Sweden, Mats began his career with McDonald's in 1979 as a part-time crew member in Sweden. In 1983, he participated in the McDonald's Management Development Program and worked as a store manager from 1984 to 1985. Lederhausen worked for The Boston Consulting Group in London from 1988 to 1990. In 1990, he returned to McDonald's and in 1993 became the Managing Director and Joint Venture Partner for McDonald's Sweden. Under his leadership, the company grew from 40 restaurants to nearly 170 restaurants.
Mats was named one of Crain’s Chicago Business’ “40 under 40” to watch in 1999 and the World Economic Forum honored him as a “Global Leader of Tomorrow” in 2000. Mats is currently a special partner to Sterling Partners as well as CUE BALL. Mats serves as Chairman of the board of ROTI Mediterranean Grill and Educate Inc. (Sylvan Learning). Mats also serves on the board of Itrim and Cue Ball. Mats serves as Chairman of the board for the not-for-profit Business for Social Responsibility and serves on the board of trustees of Ronald McDonald House Charities. Mats received a Master’s degree from Stockholm School of Economics in 1988. Mats lives in Chicago with his wife, Dr. Jessica Lederhausen and their 4 children.
Lawrence Lessig
Leading Internet Scholar and Activist; Professor, Harvard Law School
Lawrence Lessig is a world renowned expert on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright. He is a founding board member of Creative Commons, and has been praised for his work in internet law by numerous publications and industry experts. His current work addresses the question of "institutional corruption"—forces within an economy of influence that weaken the effectiveness of an institution or public trust. His newest book, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It, not only makes clear how the economy of influence defeats the will of the people, but offers cogent strategies to correct our course.
Lawrence is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. Prior to rejoining to Harvard faculty, he was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school's Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.
He has received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, Fastcase 50 Award, and being named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries. Lawrence serves on the Board of Creative Commons, MAPLight, Brave New Film Foundation, The American Academy, Berlin, AXA Research Fund and iCommons.org, and on the the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association.
Professor Lessig earned a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale.
Charlene Li
Expert on Social Media and Marketing; Author of Best-selling Book Open Leadership
Charlene Li is an influential thought leader and guide on emerging technologies, with a specific focus on social technologies, interactive media, and marketing. The co-author of the business best-seller, Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies, Charlene's newest book, Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead addresses the challenges facing leadership of the modern organization–given the dramatic adoption and impact social technologies have had on customer, partner, and employee relationships, how can companies not only manage but thrive in this new open, transparent, authentic world? Named "One of the Most Creative People in Business" by Fast Company magazine, Charlene is the founder of Altimeter Group which provides speaking and consulting services to organizations looking to understand and thrive in a new economy driven by social media tools and techniques. You can also read insights from Charlene on her blog, "The Altimeter."
Charlene is one of the most frequently-quoted industry analysts and has appeared on 60 Minutes, The McNeil NewsHour, ABC News, CNN, and CNBC. She is also frequently quoted by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Reuters, and The Associated Press. She is a much-sought after public speaker and has presented frequently at top technology conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo-where she now serves on their Advisory Board, SXSW, and adTech.
Most recently, Charlene was a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. She joined Forrester in 1999, after spending five years in online and newspaper publishing with the San Jose Mercury News and Community Newspaper Company.
She is a graduate of Harvard Business School and received a magna cum laude degree from Harvard College.
Robert Litan
Leading Voice on the Economy
Robert E. Litan is the Vice President for Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City and a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. At Kauffman, Dr. Litan oversees a multi-million dollar budget for academic research relating to entrepreneurship and writes extensively about topics related to entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth (including the legal environment conducive to all of these). At Brookings, Litan pursues a wide-ranging research agenda, which includes topics in regulation, financial institutions, telecommunications, and general economic policy.
During his career, Dr. Litan has authored or co-authored over 25 books, edited another 14, and authored or co-authored over 200 articles in journals, magazines and newspapers on a broad range of public policy issues. His latest books are Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity and Competitive Equity: Developing a Lower Cost Alternative for Mutual Funds. Other recently published books include Worldwide Financial Reporting; Financial Statecraft; and Follow The Money: The Enron Failure and the State of Corporate Disclosure.
Dr. Litan has been a lecturer in banking law at the Yale Law School, has taught various economics and law subjects to over 1,000 state judges (as part of the Judicial Education Program, first at the Brookings Institution and now at Northwestern Law School), co-taught a course in economic growth in post-conflict situations at the Command General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, has consulted for numerous organizations—public and private, and testified as an expert witness in a variety of legal and regulatory proceedings involving domestic (banking, antitrust) and international (primarily trade) issues. He also consulted for private sector firms and the Department of Justice on antitrust matters.
Among his various assignments, he has written a number of influential federal reports. He co-authored two Congressionally-mandated studies for the Treasury Department on the role of the Community Reinvestment Act after the Financial Modernization Act of 1999. During 1996-97 he served as a consultant to the Treasury Department and was the lead author of its report to Congress on the future of the financial services industry (American Finance in the 21st Century), and in 1998-99 he was the main author of the Report of President’s Commission to Study Capital Budgeting. In 1998, he also chaired the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Assessing the Costs of Natural Disasters, which produced a report The Impacts of Natural Disasters: A Framework for Loss Estimation.
Dr. Litan also has served in several capacities in the federal government. During 1995 and 1996, he was Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget where he was responsible for overseeing budgetary and other policies of six cabinet agencies. From 1993 to 1995, he was Deputy Assistant Attorney General in charge of civil antitrust litigation and regulatory issues at the Department of Justice where among other matters, he supervised the first Microsoft investigation, which resulted in a consent decree; and the investigation against NASDAQ. From 1977 to 1979, he was the regulatory and legal staff specialist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. In the early 1990s, Dr. Litan was a Member of the Commission on the Causes of the Savings and Loan Crisis.
Dr. Litan received his B.S. in Economics (summa cum laude) from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania; his J.D. from Yale Law School; and both his M. Phil. and Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University.
Chris Luebkeman
Architect, Engineer, Designer of the Built Environment
Dr. Chris Luebkeman is a bridge builder of many kinds. He is a third generation educator, formally trained as a geologist, structural engineer and architect, who believes that successful design cannot be separated from breadth of knowledge and steadfast inquiry. Chris speaks widely to the issues of sustainability and thoughtful design. He applies the lessons learned in the design of the built environment to businesses of all kinds. His keynotes, workshops, and strategy sessions are created for executives seeking better design sensibility for their products, services, and processes. Through his unique user-centric methods, Chris helps clients better understand the needs and desires of consumers, customers, and citizens.
Chris runs the Global Foresight + Innovation initiative at Arup, a global design and engineering firm and a leading creative force behind many of the world's most innovative projects and structures. In his role, he conceives new ways of building—recyclable buildings, reusable offices, and furniture that can decompose—and works with some of the world’s largest companies to develop what he calls ‘plausible futures’ to better understand the opportunities that change is creating for them in the built environment.
In his book, Drivers of Change 2009, Chris and the Foresight team at Arup look at 50 important factors that will affect our world, arranged in a framework known as STEEP (social, technological, economic, environmental and political). Designed as a collection of notecards, the book provides a tool for developing business strategy, brainstorming, education, or simply to think creatively and holistically. The cards are designed to encourage deeper consideration of the forces driving global change and the role that individuals can play in creating a more sustainable future.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Journalist and Policy Activist on Internet and Digital Rights
Rebecca MacKinnon is a leading voice on issues of privacy, free expression and governance (or lack of) in the digital networks, platforms and services on which we are all increasingly dependent. She is a Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, where she conducts research, writing and advocacy on global Internet policy, free expression, and the impact of digital technologies on human rights. She is author of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom (Basic Books, January 2012). MacKinnon is also cofounder of Global Voices, an international citizen media network.
MacKinnon’s 2011 TED Talk on the struggle for freedom and control in cyberspace was chosen by the Huffington Post and TED as one of 18 “groundbreaking ideas that will reshape the world in 2012.” The Columbia Journalism School selected her as the graduate school’s 2012 Hearst Professional-in-Residence in further recognition of her achievements. She has testified in Congress several times on matters related to global Internet freedom and U.S. policy, is quoted regularly by the world’s most influential newspapers, and appears frequently as a commentator about Internet issues on radio and television.
Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, MacKinnon worked as a journalist for CNN in Beijing for nine years and was Beijing Bureau Chief and Correspondent from 1998-2001, then served as CNN’s Tokyo Bureau Chief and Correspondent from 2001-03. From 2004-06 she was a Research Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where she began her ongoing research and writing about the Chinese Internet in addition to launching Global Voices with colleague Ethan Zuckerman. In 2007-08 she taught online journalism at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre. In 2009 she conducted research and writing as an Open Society Fellow, and in the Spring of 2010 she was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton’s Center or Information Technology Policy. She also serves on the Boards of Directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Global Network Initiative, a multi-stakeholder organization dedicated to promoting and upholding respect for free expression and privacy in the Internet and telecommunications sectors.
MacKinnon received her AB magna cum laude from Harvard University and was a Fullbright scholar in Taiwan in 1991-92. She currently lives in Washington DC.
Thomas Malone
Renowned Organizational Visionary; Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
Thomas Malone is a renowned visionary on organizational theory with a focus on how new organizations can be designed to take advantage of the possibilities provided by information technology. For example, Professor Malone predicted, in an article published in 1987, many of the major developments in electronic business over the last decade: electronic buying and selling, electronic markets for many kinds of products, "outsourcing" of non-core functions in a firm, and the use of intelligent agents for commerce.
Tom is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI). The research conducted at the CCI looks at how people and computers can be connected so that--collectively--they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before. In addition, he was also the founder and director of the MIT Center for Coordination Science and one of the two founding co-directors of the MIT Initiative on "Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century."
The past two decades of Professor Malone's groundbreaking research are summarized in his critically acclaimed book, The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your Life.
Tom is the cofounder of three software companies, an inventor of 11 patents, and has consulted and served as a board member for a number of other organizations.
He speaks frequently for business audiences around the world and has been quoted in numerous publications such as Fortune, New York Times, and Wired. Before joining the MIT faculty in 1983, Tom was a research scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) where his research involved designing educational software and office information systems. His background includes a Ph.D. and two master’s degrees from Stanford University, a B.A. (magna cum laude) from Rice University, and degrees in applied mathematics, engineering-economic systems, and psychology.
Christopher Meyer
Innovator, Business Builder, and Author on the Future of the Global Economy
Christopher Meyer is a Founder of Monitor Talent. Chris's mission is to anticipate and shape the future of business. He has pursued this goal as entrepreneur, executive, consultant, author, and as leader of a think tank.
Chris' fourth book, Standing on the Sun, will be published by Harvard Business School Press and will be available in early 2012. His previous books include the BusinessWeek Best Seller Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy and Future Wealth— the book on which Monitor Talent is based. He blogs on the Harvard Business Review site, and has contributed to publications including Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Fast Company, TIME, The Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek.
From 2004 to 2009 he was the Chief Executive of Monitor Networks, a Monitor Group company. Prior to joining Monitor Group, Chris was the Director of the Center for Business Innovation at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, from 1995 until its closing in December 2002. The Center fostered the conversation of leading issues among the business community, developed public conferences, established new services and businesses, and shared what it learned with business practitioners. At the CBI, he founded and served on the Board of the Bios Group, a venture that invested in applications of complexity theory to business.
Earlier, he was a Vice President and Group Head at Mercer Management Consulting, where from 1984 to 1995 he founded and built the firm’s practice in the information industries, comprising telecommunications, hardware, software, and information services and media.
Chris holds BAs in both Mathematics and Economics from Brandeis University and a M.B.A. (with Distinction) from The Harvard Business School. In addition, he held a University Predoctoral Fellowship in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
He serves on the Boards of Icosystem, the Bankinter Foundation for Innovation, the Business Innovation Factory, and the New Rep Theater, and the Advisory Boards of Innocentive and LaunchCyte.
Robert H. Miles
Authority on Corporate Transformation and Renewal
Renowned thought and practice leader in the fields of corporate transformation, organizational effectiveness, culture change, and executive leadership, Bob Miles is a gifted business advisor, process architect, and executive speaker. Bob pioneered the Accelerated Corporate Transformation (ACT) methodology, a powerful approach for accelerating and achieving breakthrough results across a variety of corporate transformation challenges. By applying the ACT methodology, CEOs are able to greatly compress and accelerate the process for launching an organization’s new direction or executing a new set of initiatives.
Bob is the President of Corporate Transformation Resources and Senior Advisor on corporate transformation to Monitor. He also is a co-founder and Chairman of Galloway Consulting Group, a healthcare transformation consulting firm.
Frequently serving as a Senior Advisor to executive teams as they plan, launch and refocus corporate transformation efforts, Bob has been intensely involved in shaping some of the world’s most important business transformations for companies such as General Electric, IBM Global Services, National Semiconductor, Office Depot, the PGA TOUR, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rockwell International, Southern Company and Symantec, as well as a number of emerging high-tech companies.
He has authored many books on corporate transformation and organizational effectiveness, including most recently Corporate Comeback: The Story of Renewal and Transformation at National Semiconductor, Leading Corporate Transformation: A Blueprint for Business Renewal, and Big Ideas to Big Results. He recently had a lead article in the Harvard Business Review, titled "Don't Lose Your Nerve—Accelerating Corporate Transformations," in which he shared the major insights from his quarter-century of work in support of major corporate transformations. He is a frequent speaker on these topics to senior executive audiences.
Bob has served on the Yale School of Management and the Harvard Business School faculties, teaching in the MBA, doctoral, and executive programs. At Harvard he was Faculty Chairman of the intensive Managing Organizational Effectiveness executive program, which helped CEOs, business presidents and their teams plan major transformation efforts. He was Dean of the Faculty and the Isaac Stiles Hopkins Professor at the Goizueta Business School of Emory University, where he also held the rank of University Distinguished Professor. Bob has served for over a decade as a member of the Stanford Executive Institute faculty at Stanford University and on the Advisory Boards of the U.S. Department of Energy and the Organizational Effectiveness Division of The Conference Board, and several leading business schools.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Named among the 50 most powerful women in the world (Times of London) and the 50 most influential business thinkers in the world (Accenture and Thinker 50), Rosabeth Moss Kanter is a renowned social scientist and writer whose work focuses on the dynamics of organizational leadership, change and confidence. She is an exceptionally gifted orator and one of the world’s leading scholars in business management.
Professor Kanter’s themes, particularly those on leadership of turnarounds and mastering change in turbulent times, are particularly relevant in today’s economic environment.
Professor Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, where she specializes in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights have guided leaders of large and small organizations worldwide for over 25 years, through teaching, writing, and direct consultation to major corporations and governments. Former Editor of Harvard Business Review (1989-1992), Professor Kanter received the Academy of Management’s Distinguished Career Award for her scholarly contributions to management knowledge in 2001, and in 2002 was named “Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year” by the World Teleport Association.
A prolific writer, she has authored or co-authored 17 books, which have been translated into 17 languages. Her literary achievements include:
• Her book, Confidence: How Winning Streaks & Losing Streaks Begin & End (a New York Times business and #1 BusinessWeek bestseller), which describes the culture and dynamics of high-performance organizations as compared with those in decline, and shows how to lead turnarounds, whether in businesses, hospitals, schools, sports teams, community organizations, or countries.
• Her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good, a manifesto for leadership of sustainable enterprises, was named one of the ten best business books of 2009 by Amazon.com.
• The prizewinning classic, Men & Women of the Corporation (which won the C. Wright Mills award for the year’s best book on social issues), that offered insight into corporate careers and the individual, as well as organizational factors that promote success. A spin-off video, “A Tale of ‘O’: On Being Different,” is among the world’s most widely-used diversity tools, and a related book, Work & Family in the United States, set a policy agenda. In 2001, a coalition of university centers created the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award in her honor for the best research on work/family issues.
• The award-winning book When Giants Learn to Dance, which showed how to master the new terms of competition at the dawn of the global information age.
• World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy, which identified the rise of new business networks and analyzed dilemmas of globalization.
• America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again, which provides a new direction for the United States on the cusp of the Presidential election.
• The Change Masters, which was named one of the most influential business books of the 20th century (Financial Times).
Professor Kanter has received 23 honorary doctoral degrees, as well as numerous leadership awards and prizes for her books and articles. Through Goodmeasure Inc., the consulting group she co-founded, she partnered with IBM to apply her leadership tools to non-business sectors. She is also a Senior Advisor for IBM’s Global Citizenship portfolio.
Professor Kanter advises CEOs of large and small companies, has served on numerous business and non-profit boards, and participates in national commissions including the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors. She speaks widely, often sharing the platform with Presidents, Prime Ministers, and CEOs at national and international events, such as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Before joining the Harvard Business School faculty, she held tenured professorships at Yale University and Brandeis University and was a Fellow at Harvard Law School, simultaneously holding a Guggenheim Fellowship.
She also chairs a Harvard University group that is creating an innovative initiative on advanced leadership to help successful leaders at the top of their professions address national and global problems.
Michael Norton
Behavioral Scientist, Expert on Incentives and Engagement; Harvard Business School
Michael Norton is a widely recognized authority on the behavioral economics of investment: How investing time, money, and labor can influence how people come to value things, from products to personal relationships. He is an Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at the Harvard Business School. Mike has published more than 40 academic articles, which have appeared in top marketing, management, psychology, and interdisciplinary scientific journals, and is currently co-authoring a book on money and happiness.
His research has elicited extensive media attention, including appearances on National Public Radio and invited op-eds for The New York Times, Forbes, and the Los Angeles Times. His research has twice been featured in The New York Times Magazine Year in Ideas issue (in 2007 and 2009), and his research on the “IKEA effect” was named as one of Harvard Business Review’s Breakthrough Ideas in 2009. In 2010, he won the Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. At Harvard, he teaches a course entitled the Art of Marketing Science, and he has received awards for exceptional teaching and mentorship.
Mike completed his undergraduate degree at Williams College in 1997 and Ph.D. at Princeton University in 2002, as well as a post-doctoral fellowship in MIT’s Media Lab and Sloan School of Management (where he worked with Dan Ariely, best-selling author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality).
Jeremiah Owyang
Social Technology and Interactive Marketing Expert
Jeremiah Owyang is an influential thought leader on web strategy, interactive marketing, and social technologies. He is a Partner at Altimeter Group focused on customer strategy and the author of the popular blog "Web Strategy," which focuses on how corporations connect with their customers using web technologies. The "Web Strategy" blog is rated as the Top Industry analyst blog by Edelman since 2008.
In the realm of disruptive technologies, Jeremiah is frequently sought after and has appeared on Bloomberg TV and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USAToday, and other technology and business related publications. He was featured in the 2009 "Who's Who" in the Silicon Valley Business Journal.
An accomplished speaker, Jeremiah has spoken all over the US as well as Asia and Europe and keynoted at prominent industry conferences including Internet Strategy Forum, Web 2.0 Expo, and SXSW.
Previously, Jeremiah was a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, focused on social computing for the interactive marketer. Prior to that, from 2005-2007 Jeremiah held the title of Manager of Global Web Marketing at Hitachi Data Systems and launched their social media program.
Michael Porter
Seminal Authority on Competitive Strategy
Michael E. Porter is indisputably the foremost authority on modern competitive strategy.
Generally recognized as the father of the modern strategy field, Professor Porter has been identified in a variety of rankings and surveys as the world’s most influential thinker on management and competitiveness. His expertise spans competitive strategy, the competitiveness and economic development of nations, states, and regions, and the application of competitive principles to social problems such as health care, the environment, and corporate responsibility.
He is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, based at Harvard Business School. A University professorship is the highest professional recognition that can be awarded to a Harvard faculty member. In 2001, Harvard Business School and Harvard University jointly created the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, dedicated to furthering Professor Porter’s work.
He is the author of 17 books and over 125 articles, including his seminal works: “The Competitive Advantage of Nations,” which has guided economic policy in countless nations and regions; and “Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors,” in its 63rd printing and which has been translated into 19 languages. His book "Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results" (2006; Harvard Business Press) is influencing thinking and practice not only in the United States but numerous other countries. "On Competition" (Harvard Business Press) was re-issued with new and expanded content in October 2008. Professor Porter has received six McKinsey Awards for the best Harvard Business Review article of the year, including an unprecedented four first-place awards.
Professor Porter has served as a strategy advisor to top management in numerous leading U.S. and international companies, among them Caterpillar, DuPont, Procter & Gamble, Royal Dutch Shell, Scotts Miracle-Gro, SYSCO, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. He currently serves on the board of directors of Thermo Fisher Scientific Corporation and Parametric Technology Corporation, and is senior strategy advisor to the Boston Red Sox.
He has also been involved in assisting governments and advising national leaders in the U.S. and abroad, including Armenia, Ireland, India, Kazakhstan, Libya, Nicaragua, Portugal, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand.
The Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development is based on his thinking about economic development for groups of neighboring countries.
Extending his work on competitiveness to states, provinces, and other sub-national regions, Professor Porter led the Clusters of Innovation project, which developed a framework for economic policy in U.S. regions. In addition, he is dedicated to addressing the relationship between competition and important social issues such as poverty, health care delivery and the natural environment. He has devoted growing attention toward economically distressed communities and poor and developing countries.
Professor Porter founded three major non-profit organizations: The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), the Center for Effective Philanthropy, and FSG-Social Impact Advisors. He also currently serves on the Princeton University Board of Trustees.
He received a B.S.E. with high honors in aerospace and mechanical engineering from Princeton University in 1969, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi. He received an M.B.A. with high distinction in 1971 from the Harvard Business School, where he was a George F. Baker Scholar, and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University in 1973.
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Professor Porter lived and traveled throughout the world as the son of a career Army officer. At Princeton, he played intercollegiate golf and was the New England champion. He was named to the 1968 NCAA Golf All-American Team. After graduating from college, Professor Porter served through the rank of captain in the U.S. Army Reserve. He maintains a long-time interest in the esthetics and business of music and art, having worked on the problems of strategy with arts organizations and aspiring musicians. Professor Porter has two daughters and resides in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Iqbal Quadir
Entrepreneur, Founder of GrameenPhone, Philanthropist
Iqbal Z. Quadir is the founder and director of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which promotes bottom-up entrepreneurship in developing countries.
Quadir is an accomplished entrepreneur who writes about the critical roles of entrepreneurship and innovations in improving the economic and political conditions in low-income countries. Quadir is often credited as having been the earliest observer of the potential for mobile phones to transform low-income countries. His work has been recognized by leaders and organizations worldwide as a new and successful approach to sustainable poverty alleviation.
For four years, Quadir taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, focusing on the impact of technologies in the politics and economics of developing countries. In 2005, he moved to MIT. His particular research interest is in the democratizing effects of technologies in developing countries with some of his initial thoughts published in the Summer/Fall 2002 issue of The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs.
In 2006, Quadir co-founded the journal Innovations, published by MIT Press, which highlights private efforts in public service. Quadir spent most of the 1990s founding and building GrameenPhone Ltd., which has now become Bangladesh’s largest telephone company, with net income of $250 million in 2006. His childhood exposure to the conditions in rural Bangladesh combined with his later venture capital experience in New York led Quadir to recognize that the ensuing digital revolution could facilitate the introduction of telephony to 100 million people living in rural Bangladesh. In 1994, he formally launched this effort by convincing angel investors to establish a New York based company, Gonofone Development Corp (meaning “phones for the masses”) to help him organize what subsequently became known as GrameenPhone.
Quadir’s vision of a large-scale, commercial project that could serve all urban areas and 68,000 villages in Bangladesh led him to organize a global consortium including Telenor AS, the primary telephone company in Norway and an affiliate of micro-credit pioneer Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. He attracted these investors by complementing his vision with a practical distribution scheme whereby small entrepreneurs, backed by loans from Grameen Bank, could retail telephone services to their surrounding communities. With the support of these investors, GrameenPhone, established in late 1996, started building a new cellular network and providing services to the public soon thereafter. To date, it has built the largest cellular network in the country with investments of nearly $2 billion and a subscriber base of nearly 20 million. Its rural program is already available in more than 60,000 villages, providing telephone access to more than 100 million people, while helping to create 250,000 micro-entrepreneurs in these villages.
Quadir appeared on CBC, CNN and PBS and was profiled in feature articles in The Economist, Boston Globe, Financial Times and The New York Times, and in several books. The World Economic Forum, based in Geneva, Switzerland, selected him as a “Global Leader for Tomorrow.” In 2006, Quadir was awarded the prestigious Science, Education and Economic Development (SEED) award in Bangladesh. In spring 2007, Wharton Alumni Magazine selected Quadir for its list of 125 Influential People and Ideas on the occasion of the 125-year celebration of the Wharton School. His work is referred to in 20 books and is prominently featured in the 2007 book, You Can Hear Me Now, by Nicholas Sullivan (Jossey-Bass).
Earlier in his career, Quadir served as a vice president of Atrium Capital Corp., an associate of Security Pacific Merchant Bank, both in New York, and a consultant to the World Bank in Washington DC. He received an MBA and an MA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a BS with honors from Swarthmore College.
Jeffrey Rayport
Leading Voice on All Things Marketing and Branding, Best-selling author
Jeffrey F. Rayport is a thought leader and practitioner in digital marketing, media, and commerce, with a focus on strategic opportunities enabled by IT innovation, service automation, and mobile computing, particularly as these relate to technology-based information and service businesses.
Among his professional affiliations, Rayport is an Operating Partner at Castanea Partners, a private equity firm focused on multi-channel retail, consumer brands, and marketing services. He is Chairman and Founder of digital strategy consulting company, Marketspace LLC, which he established as a senior partner at Monitor Group. He co-founded several related businesses at the Group, including Monitor Executive Development (a custom executive education business).
Rayport consults and speaks on a variety of topics, including the implications of digital, social, and mobile media for media and advertising services; customer experience and engagement; business model innovation; and competitive advantage in a service economy. In related pursuits, he is a founder of several corporate universities, including at Omnicom Group; Bertelsmann AG; and Amgen. With co-author Bernard J. Jaworski, he has published a series of leading MBA-level textbooks on strategy in a networked economy, and, more recently, a bestselling business book on reinventing service businesses, Best Face Forward: Why Companies Must Improve Their Service Interfaces with Customers (HBS Press).
Prior to joining Monitor Group, Rayport was a faculty member at Harvard Business School, where he developed and taught the first e-commerce course in the United States. He introduced “Managing in the Marketspace” as an MBA elective at HBS in 1994 and enrolled nearly 2,000 MBA students while at the School. In building the course, Rayport authored over a hundred case studies. Business plans written by students resulted in dozens of start-ups, including Yahoo! Prior to his leave from HBS, Rayport coined the term “viral marketing.” He also was the only faculty member voted Outstanding Professor for three years in a row by the HBS Students Association.
Rayport is a columnist for BusinessWeek Online. He has written for other publications, including CIO, Financial Times, Fast Company, Forbes.com, Harvard Business Review (and HBR.org), MarketWatch.com, McKinsey Quarterly, Strategy & Business, and MIT’s Technology Review. Before HBS, Rayport was a reporter for Fortune, a telecoms analyst for Nikko Securities, and a principal at The Winthrop Group, a consulting firm specializing in the history of business and technology.
Rayport earned an A.B. from Harvard College; an M.Phil. in International Relations at the University of Cambridge (U.K.); and an A.M. and Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University. He has served as a director of a variety of public and private corporations, which currently include Andrews McMeel Universal; GSI Commerce; International Data Group; Monster Worldwide; and Valueclick. Past directorships include Agency.com; Be Free; CBS MarketWatch; and iCrossing (acquired by Hearst Corporation in 2010). As a board director, he has facilitated nearly $2 billion in transactions on exit. He also serves on the International Advisory Board of Fleishman-Hillard and the Advisory Board of Brodeur Partners (both are strategic communications firms affiliated with Omnicom Group). In non-profit work, he is a Trustee of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA; and Chairman of the Board of From the Top (the #1 classical music radio and TV program in the United States, featuring gifted young musicians in live performances across the USA, distributed on NPR and PBS) in Boston, MA.
Byron Reeves
Professor, Stanford University; Behavioral Scientist, Proponent of Interactive Gaming & Virtual Worlds in the Workplace
Byron is the Paul C. Edwards Professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, and is Co-Founder and Faculty Co-Director of the H-STAR Institute (Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research) and its industry program, Media X. He is an expert on the psychological processing of media in the areas of attention, emotions, learning, and physiological responses, and has published over 100 scientific papers about media and psychology. His research has been the basis for a number of new media products at companies such as Microsoft, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard, in the areas of voice interfaces, automated dialogue systems, and business process simulations. He is currently working on the application of multi-player game technology to behavior change and the conduct of serious work, and is Co-Founder of Seriosity, Inc., a company building enterprise software inspired by game psychology.
Howard Rheingold
Pioneering Thinker on the Future of Technology and Society
There are a lot of voices talking about social media today, but Howard Rheingold defined the field before it existed. A noted author and commentator, Rheingold has a proven record of accurate technology and social forecasting, over two decades of syndicated columns, best-selling books, and pioneering online enterprises. His latest research and forthcoming book focuses on 21st century literacies -- how individuals and organizations learn to use digital media effectively and credibly. He coined the term "virtual community" in 1987.
Howard teaches at both Stanford University and UC Berkeley's School of Information. His courses include Participatory Media / Collective Action, Digital Journalism, and Virtual Community / Social Media. An acknowledged authority on the marriage of mobile phone, PC, and wireless internet, Rheingold's previous work reveals how this convergence has changed the way we meet, mate, entertain, govern, and conduct business. His book Smart Mobs, named one of the “Big Ideas books of 2002” by The New York Times, chronicles the new forms of collective action and cooperation made possible by mobile communications, pervasive computing, and the Internet.
Rheingold is the recipient of a 2008 MacArthur Knowledge-Networking Grant through the Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition. He was founding Executive Editor of Hotwired, the first commercial webzine where the web-based discussion forum and the online banner ad were invented. Rheingold has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, ABC Primetime Live, CNN, CBS News, NBC News, Macneill-Lehrer Report, NPR’s Fresh Air and Marketplace.
Steven Rosenbaum
Expert on Media and Content Curation
Steven Rosenbaum is an entrepreneur, author, and curator. In the online world of overabundant data, the curator adds value by selecting and sharing the best content for others to consume, namely, the most relevant and useful information for the intended audiences and communities served. Steve calls curation the “New Magic” of the connected world – fixing the signal to noise problem, and making the world contextual and coherent again. His vision of curation is the subject of his recently released book, Curation Nation. The book engages more than 60 thoughts leaders and companies to explore and define the power of curation for brands, media and consumers.
As the CEO of the web's largest video curation platform, Magnify.net, Steve provides a real-time curation solution that powers more than 83,000 sites, including New York Magazine, Mediaite, and The Week.com.
Known as the father of user-generated video, he created MTV's groundbreaking UGC series MTV UNfiltered, a pre-web television project that handed cameras to young storytellers. Since that time he has built a career finding, organizing, and curating first-person storytelling.
Steve's work in media includes filmmaking work as an Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker. His film “7 Days In September” gathered more than 500 hours of video around 9/11 – creating a curated journey through the eyes of 28 filmmakers and citizen storytellers. His film work includes long form documentary projects for National Geographic, HBO, CNN, MSNBC, Discovery, A&E, and The History Channel.
As a blogger, Rosenbaum contributes to posts on technology, Internet video, and emerging digital lifestyle trends to Fast Company, The Huffington Post, Silicon Alley Insider, Mashable, TechCrunch, and MediaBizBloggers.
Tim Rowe
Expert Practitioner on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Tim Rowe is an entrepreneur, community builder, and expert on how to foster innovation within organizations. Born and raised in Cambridge, MA, he is the Founder and CEO of the Cambridge Innovation Center, the largest facility in the US dedicated to housing early stage technology businesses.
The CIC houses approximately 350 startup and early stage technology companies, and is perhaps the densest collection of startups anywhere in the world. The Boston Globe has described the CIC as “what may just be the most important building in Greater Boston”. Google, Inc. began in New England within the Cambridge Innovation Center, as did Great Point Energy and many others. Approximately 550 companies have gotten their start at CIC since it was founded in 1999. At last count about $1.1B had been invested by venture capitalists in these companies.
Tim is also a Founder and Venture Partner with New Atlantic Ventures, a $120M early stage venture fund based in Kendall Square, Cambridge. Notable past investments include EnerNOC, a leader in demand-response energy management, and Qliance, a Seattle-based company revolutionizing how primary care is delivered.
Tim’s past work includes 4 years with Boston Consulting Group in Boston, Madrid, Tokyo and Singapore; a two year stint as a lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management; and a role in organizing the “Woodstock of the Web” at CERN in 1994.
Tim is a graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management and Amherst College. He is fluent in Japanese and Spanish, and speaks basic Mandarin Chinese.
Tim was named one of Boston’s “40 under 40” young business leaders by the Boston Business Journal, and was elected in the Spring of 2009 as President of the Kendall Square Association, which he helped found. The KSA seeks to improve, promote and protect this important global technology hub.
AnnaLee Saxenian
Authority on Technology Clusters and Global Innovation; Dean, School of Information, UC Berkeley
AnnaLee Saxenian has made a career of studying regional economics and the conditions under which people, ideas, and geographies combine and connect into hubs of economic activity. Her latest book, The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy (Harvard University Press, 2006) explores how and why immigrant engineers from Silicon Valley have transferred the institutions of technology entrepreneurship to emerging regions in their home countries—Taiwan, Israel, China and India in particular—and launching companies far from established centers of skill and technology. The “brain drain,” she argues, has now become “brain circulation”— a powerful economic force for the development of formerly peripheral regions that is sparking profound transformations in the global economy.
AnnaLee is dean and professor at the U.C. Berkeley School of Information and a professor in Berkeley’s department of city and regional planning. Her prior publications include Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Harvard, 1994), Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Public Policy Institute of California, 1999), and Local and Global Networks of Immigrant Professionals in Silicon Valley (PPIC, 2002). She holds a PhD in political science from MIT, a master's in regional planning from U.C. Berkeley, and a BA in economics from Williams College.
Daniel Schrag
Climate Change Expert; Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Daniel Schrag studies climate and climate change over the broadest range of Earth's history. He is Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Professor of Environmental Science at Harvard University and Director of Harvard’s Center for the Environment.
He has examined changes in ocean circulation over the last several decades, with particular attention to El Niño and the tropical Pacific. He has worked on theories for Pleistocene ice-age cycles including a better determination of ocean temperatures during the Last Glacial Maximum, 20,000 years ago.
Dan also helped develop the Snowball Earth hypothesis, proposing that a series of global glaciations occurred between 750 and 580 million years ago that may have led to the evolution of multicellular animals. Currently he is working with economists and engineers on technological approaches to mitigating future climate change. In particular, Schrag proposes investing in carbon sequestration technology, involving the capture and storage of carbon dioxide from such sources as coal-fired power plants, as a necessary step to mitigate a large part of future greenhouse gases.
Dan was awarded a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 2000 and in early 2009, he was appointed by President Obama to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Deborah Schultz
Social and Open Web Advocate
Deborah is an Internet industry veteran who merges expertise in design, marketing and innovation to bring fresh approaches to business. She is widely recognized for her impact on the social web and how it impacts society and business. Her work architecting a Social Media Lab for P&G focused on customer relationships, reinventing the nature of the company’s customer connection. Her current work focuses on the importance of real-world experimentation, open-innovation and the new human dynamics required for both startups and large organizations to succeed in an always-on, connected world.
She speaks and consults on innovation and the business impact of the Internet, specifically on the impact of the social web. She currently serves on Procter & Gamble’s Digital Advisory Board and is a Senior Fellow with the Altimeter Group. Deborah has consulted with and advised Fortune 50 companies including Pepsi, General Mills, and GE, as well as numerous Internet startups and VC firms. She is a regular keynote speaker at tech and business conferences and is a co-host of the popular podcast Tummelvision.tv
Previously, Deborah was the Marketing Director at Six Apart, ran her own technology consultancy firm, was a management consultant at AnswerThink and spent five years at Citibank where she developed many of the global bank's first internet initiatives. One of her proudest accomplishments was launching the Downtown Info Center, a lower Manhattan community center & online hub to revitalize lower Manhattan after the attacks of September 11th. Deborah is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University.
The former Manhattanite is now a tireless road warrior and can be found in SF, NYC, or Tel Aviv. But wherever she is, she's always 'connected'.
Peter Schwartz
World-Renowned Futurist and Strategist
Peter Schwartz is Senior Vice President for Global Relations and Strategic Planning for Salesforce.com. He is co-founder and former chairman of the Global Business Network (GBN), the world’s preeminent member organization focused on scenario thinking and planning, where he lead programs for corporations, governments, and non-profit institutions. His research and scenario work encompassed energy resources and the environment, technology, life sciences, telecommunications, media and entertainment, aerospace, and national security. A prolific author, Peter’s book, Inevitable Surprises, offers a provocative look at the complex forces at play in the world today and their implications for business and society. His first book, The Art of the Long View, is considered a seminal publication on scenario planning and has been translated into multiple languages. Peter addresses many different audiences in corporate board rooms, at conferences on issues such as global warming and human life extension, and at the World Economic Forum. He led the scenario team at Royal Dutch/Shell in the 1980s, where many of the scenario tools were pioneered. He has even lent his futurist skills to Hollywood as a script consultant on such films as The Minority Report, Deep Impact, Sneakers, and War Games.
Clay Shirky
Writer, Consultant, and Teacher on New Technology and Social Media
Clay Shirky is today's leading voice on the social and economic impact of internet technologies. Considered one of the finest thinkers on the internet revolution, Clay provides an insightful and optimistic view of networks, social software, and technology's effects on society. Writing extensively about the Internet since 1996, he is the author of the best-selling Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive Surplus. In Here Comes Everybody—selected by Guardian as one of the 100 greatest non-fiction books of all time—Clay explored how organizations and industries are being upended by open networks, collaboration, and user appropriation of content production and dissemination. Cognitive Surplus reveals how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world.
Clay holds a joint appointment at New York University, as an Associate Arts Professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and as a Distinguished Writer in Residence in the Journalism Department. He is also a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and was the Edward R. Murrow Visiting Lecturer at Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy in 2010.
Over the years, he has had regular columns in Business 2.0 and FEED, among other publications, and his writings have appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Wired, Computerworld, and Foreign Affairs. In addition to writing, Clay has a consulting practice focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web.
Prior to his appointment at NYU, Shirky was a partner at the investment firm the Accelerator Group, an international investment company. Shirky was the original Professor of New Media in the Media Studies department at Hunter College, where he created the department’s first undergraduate and graduate offerings in new media and helped design the current MFA in Integrated Media Arts program.
Rick Smolan
Photographer, Citizen Journalism Expert
A former Time, Life and National Geographic photographer, Rick Smolan co-founded the best-selling Day in the Life... photography series. Smolan is also a co-founder of Against All Odds Productions, which specializes in the design and execution of large-scale global projects that combine compelling story-telling with state-of-the-art technology. Their projects have been featured numerous times on the covers of magazines around the world including Fortune, Time, Newsweek, Asia Week and US News & World Report.
From Alice to Ocean: Alone Across the Outback was the first illustrated book to include an interactive CD-ROM disc. The San Francisco Chronicle called it, "a stunning, addictive and mesmerizing experience that may well change the course of publishing forever."
Passage to Vietnam: Through the Eyes of 70 Photographers, a large-format illustrated book and a CD-ROM, was created in partnership with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Interval Research. The New York Times described Passage as, "the most beautiful CD-ROM ever."
24 Hours in Cyberspace: Painting on the Walls of the Digital Cave, was the largest online event ever to take place in a single day. ABC's Ted Koppel devoted an entire evening to 24 Hours on Nightline, and the project was also featured on the cover of US News & World Report.
One Digital Day: How the Microchip is Changing Our World was produced in conjunction with the celebration of Intel's 30th anniversary. The book was featured on the cover of Fortune magazine and in a 30-page excerpt. CNN also ran a TV special about the making of the project.
The Planet Project: Your Voice, Your World, was the largest Internet poll of the human race ever conducted. Over 1.5 million people from over 240 countries participated in real time over a 4 day period by answering a series of questions exploring what it's like to be a human being at the beginning of the Millennium. In addition, 500 'Planet Pollsters' were dispatched around the world to conduct the poll in remote regions of the globe to insure that the opinions of people who do not have access to technology were also included.
Brian Solis
Leading Thinker on the Impact of Social Media on Business and Culture
Brian Solis is globally recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders and published authors in new media. A digital analyst, sociologist, and futurist, Brian has studied and influenced the effects of emerging media on business, marketing, publishing, and culture. His book, Engage, is regarded as the industry reference guide for businesses to build and measure success in the social web. His most recent book, The End of Business As Usual, explores the rise of the connected consumer, their effect on the bottom line, and how organizations can adapt to effectively compete for their attention, their business or contribution, and most importantly, their loyalty.
Brian Solis is a Principal Analyst at Altimeter Group and works with businesses on new media strategies and frameworks to build bridges between companies and customers, employees, and other important stakeholders. Additionally, he specializes in change management to help businesses (and the leadership team) introduce new media resources, systems and processes, and management layers to effectively embrace and excel around the connected customer. As a result, CRM Magazine named Brian as an influential leader of 2010.
Brian’s ideas and perspective is often cited in the press such as The New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and many other business, technology, and mainstream outlets.
Brian Solis is an avid speaker, keynoting conferences and corporate events around the world. His work in new media dates back to 1997 when he was originally tasked with building branded communities in forums and discussion boards, which represented the foundation of his future study. This work continues today with a primary focus on closing the gap between strategy and execution in relation to business, creative, and intelligence.
His blog, BrianSolis.com is among the world’s leading business and marketing online resources, ranking among the top 1% of all blogs tracked by Technorati. Brian is also ranked as one of the leading voices in the AdAge Power 150 index of worldwide marketing bloggers. He actively contributes to FastCompany, BusinessWeek, AdAge, Harvard Business Review, and Mashable.
Prior to joining Altimeter Group, Brian led interactive and social programs for Fortune 500 companies, notable celebrities, and Web 2.0 startups since 1999 as Principal of FutureWorks.
Margot Stern Strom
Social Change Agent; Executive Director, Facing History and Ourselves
Margot Stern Strom is an international leader in education for justice and the preservation of democracy. Through her commitment to honoring the voices of teachers and students and her deep belief that history matters, she has enabled millions of students to study the Holocaust, to investigate root causes of racism, antisemitism and violence, and to realize their obligations and capabilities as citizens in a democracy.
Margot has been the Executive Director of Facing History and Ourselves since its inception. With her leadership, Facing History and Ourselves has become known worldwide for the high quality of its materials and programs for both students and teachers.
While teaching social studies at the Runkle School in Brookline, Massachusetts, and studying moral development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1976, Margot attended a conference on the Holocaust that inspired her to develop lessons and classroom resources that focused on this then-neglected history. It deepened her commitment to understanding issues of individual responsibility and moral decision-making in adolescents and defined her own learning about democracy.
Margot moved from the classroom to become project director and, in 1980, Executive Director of Facing History and Ourselves. Through pilot workshops and in consultation with scholars and teachers, she created the Facing History scope and sequence: the journey that students undertake to learn about the impact of history on their own lives and their futures.
Facing History teaches the skills of in-depth historical thinking in the belief that all students are capable of attaining the high standards necessary to engage deeply in its resource materials. Through using these skills, students develop greater understanding of the tragedies in humanity’s history and greater compassion for others.
Margot has developed a world-class nonprofit organization that sets the standard for demonstrated impact, a strong business model, and outstanding leadership by board and staff. She has given children and adults a platform to discuss the most important moral questions we must all ask and answer.
Itay Talgam
Prominent Israeli Orchestra Conductor
Conductor Itay Talgam is one of the leading figures in the Israeli music scene and is a champion of contemporary music. His outstanding achievements have been acknowledged by audiences, critics, as well as by Israel’s Composers Association, which awarded him an honorary prize for his personal contribution in performing and promoting Israeli music. Itay has inspired audiences around the globe with his engaging presentations on leadership and innovation. He has presented at some of the world's most prestigious events, such as the World Economic Forum and TED, to overwhelming praise and delight.
As Music Director of the Tel-Aviv Symphony Orchestra and of Musica Nova Consort, Talgam won the prestigious prize for “Best Performance of the Year” for Israeli orchestral music awarded by the National Council for the Arts.
Itay’s international debut took place in 1987, when he was chosen by Leonard Bernstein to perform in a special concert with the Orchestre de Paris, with the great Maestro himself conducting the second half of the same concert. Since that highly successful performance, Itay has conducted many orchestras around the globe - being the first Israeli conductor to perform with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and with the Leipzig Opera House.
A native of Tel-Aviv, Itay received his Artist Diploma in Conducting from the Jerusalem Rubin Academy in 1987, being awarded scholarships from the America-Israel cultural foundation. He then studied in the Accademia Chigiana, Siena, with Maestri Franco Ferrara and Guenady Rozhdestvensky and in Tanglewood, under Maestri Seiji Osawa, Leon Fleisher and Lenny Bernstein. In addition, he studied General Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, winning his degree “Cum Laude”.
Itay Talgam has taught orchestral conducting at the Rubin Academy for music, Tel-Aviv University, and the Academy for Music and Dance in Jerusalem. In addition to his current conducting activities, he is intensely involved in many educational projects, both as a Fellow of the Mandel School for Educational Leadership in Jerusalem, and as the creator of the unique ‘Maestro’ leadership programs. He is also a member of the Israeli National Council for the Arts music section.
Noel Tichy
Noted Authority on Leadership
A leading authority on management and leadership development, Dr. Noel Tichy is a professor of organizational behavior and human resource management at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He is also the director of the Global Business Partnership and heads up the Global Leadership in Healthcare Program working with CEOs and their senior teams from major medical centers in the U.S., along with teams in Europe and India.
The former head of General Electric Co.’s famed leadership development center, Crotonville, Noel led the transformation to action learning at GE and has worked with CEOs around the world to develop leadership development capacity. He was also manager of Management Education for GE, where he directed its worldwide development efforts.
Noel consults widely in both the private and public sectors. He is a senior partner in Action Learning Associates. His clients have included: Best Buy, GE, PepsiCo, Coca Cola, GM, Nokia, Nomura Securities, 3M, Daimler-Benz, and Royal Dutch Shell.
Currently, Noel conducts the Cycle of Leadership executive program at the University of Michigan. Most recently, he led the launch of the Global Corporate Citizenship Initiative in partnership with GE, Procter & Gamble, and 3M, designed to create a national model for partnership opportunities between business and society emphasizing free enterprise and democratic principles.
Noel has long been regarded as a staple of management literacy as noted by his rating as one of the “Top 10 Management Gurus” by BusinessWeek and Business 2.0. He is also the author of numerous books and articles, including Cycle of Leadership and The Leadership Engine. His most recent book, coauthored with Warren Bennis, is Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls.
Noel has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Organizational Dynamics, Journal of Business Research, and Journal of Business Strategy and was the founding editor and chief of Human Resource Management, co-authored with Warren Bennis.
Prior to joining the Michigan faculty, he served for nine years on the Columbia University Business School faculty.
Stephen Trachtenberg
Authority on Higher Education, former President of George Washington University
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg is one of the most high profile and dynamic leaders in education today. Having served as a university president for over 30 years, he has greatly influenced and shaped the field of American higher education. Trachtenberg served as the 15th president of The George Washington University for nearly two decades, after arriving in 1988 from the University of Hartford, where he had been president for 11 years. He currently presides as President Emeritus and University Professor of Public Service at the University and is an adviser to Korn/Ferry International, where he is helping to find the next generation of university leadership. Prior to his position at the University of Hartford, Trachtenberg served for eight years at Boston University as vice president for academic services and academic dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Earlier, in Washington, D.C., he was a special assistant for two years to the U.S. Education Commissioner, Department of Health, Education and Welfare. He has been an attorney with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and a legislative aide to former Indiana Congressman John Brademas.
In his most recent book, Big Man on Campus: A University President Speaks Out on Higher Education, Trachtenberg reflects on his years of experience in transforming America's educational landscape and assesses the current state of higher education. In addition, he has published, Thinking Out Loud: The Wit and Wisdom of Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Reflections on Higher Education (New Yorker Cartoon Bank), Thinking Out Loud (Oryx Press), and Speaking His Mind (Oryx Press). He is co-editor of the book The Art of Hiring in America’s Colleges & Universities (Prometheus Books). He authored chapters in the books Productivity & Higher Education (Peterson’s Guide), Leaders on Leadership: The College Presidency (Jossey-Bass), and Academic Leaders as Managers (Jossey-Bass). His articles have appeared in publications including The Educational Record, The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges AGB Reports, Journal for Higher Education Management, The College Board Review, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. Trachtenberg also has served as a consulting editor to The Journal of Education and The Presidency.
Stephen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University, a Juris Doctor from Yale University, and a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard University, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Sherry Turkle
MIT Professor; Founder and director, MIT Initiative on Technology and the Self
A professor, author, consultant and researcher, Sherry Turkle has spent the last 20 years researching the psychology of people’s relationships with technology. She is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. She is the founder and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, a center of research and reflection on the evolving connections between people and artifacts.
One of the few researchers in this field, Sherry offers a unique perspective on meaning and mechanisms – on humans and technology and social interaction. Sherry's latest book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, describes technology's influence on new, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, parents, and children, and new instabilities in how we understand privacy and community, intimacy and solitude. Sherry is the author of several books including Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, and Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. She is the editor of Evocative Objects: Thinking With Things, Falling for Science: Objects in Mind, and The Inner History of Devices.
Profiles of Sherry have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Scientific American, and Wired Magazine. She is a featured media commentator on the effects of technology for CNN, NBC, ABC, and NPR, including appearances on such programs as Nightline and 20/20. Professor Turkle received a joint doctorate in sociology and personality psychology from Harvard University and is a licensed clinical psychologist.
Peter Ubel
Behavioral Scientist and Physician; Marketing Professor, Duke University
Peter Ubel is a physician and behavioral scientist who focuses on science, policy, health, well-being and ethics. His research and writing explores the quirks in human nature that influence our lives—the mixture of rational and irrational forces that affect our health, our happiness and the way our society functions. Peter's goal is to show the audience, in an entertaining way, why the key to living better, healthier lives, and improving the societies we live in, is to understand human nature.
Peter is also a Professor of Marketing and Public Policy at Duke University. His research explores controversial issues about the role of values and preferences in health care decision making, from decisions at the bedside to policy decisions. He uses the tools of decision psychology and behavioral economics to explore topics like informed consent, shared decision making and health care rationing.
Gerard Van Grinsven
Healthcare Innovator; President & CEO, Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital
With more than 24 years of global experience in the luxury hospitality industry, Gerard van Grinsven was asked to bring his innovative approaches and expertise in service excellence to the world of healthcare. In 2006, he was named president and chief executive of 300-bed, $360 million Henry Ford West Bloomfield. Prior to joining Henry Ford, he served as vice president and area general manager for The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company in Dearborn and as vice president and area general manager of The Ritz-Carlton hotels in Cleveland, St. Louis, and Philadelphia.
Gerard's vision is for Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, which opened in March 2009, to be embraced as both a community center for well-being and a hospital. In addition to state-of-the-art equipment and the best clinical practices, the hospital features a wellness center, a healthy restaurant and other unique features including a pond and landscaped courtyards that contribute to a healing environment. The hospital will break ground in 2011 on a greenhouse and education center that will teach the community sustainable and organic farming techniques and promote healthy eating habits. It will provide therapy to patients, partner with area schools and be incorporated into Henry’s and inpatient room service.
Van Grinsven’s approach focuses on a passion for service, a total commitment to creating an environment of excellence, and building successful relationships—with the community, patients, and employees.
During his career he has opened 20 Ritz-Carlton properties worldwide. He was a key member of the team responsible for the company winning the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 1999. He also executed The Ritz-Carlton Re-Born project, which resulted in The Ritz-Carlton in Dearborn being the #1 hotel in the company for improved guest and employee satisfaction scores. Van Grinsven also has served on the HFHS Western Wayne/Downriver Board of Trustees.
Van Grinsven holds a bachelor of arts degree in Hotel Management from The Hotel Management School, Maastricht, The Netherlands. He is a former board member of the Detroit Regional Chamber and the Michigan Kidney Foundation. In 2003, he was named as one of the “100 Emerging Business Leaders” by the Detroit Regional Chamber.
Paul Van Riper
Expert on 21st Century Leadership and Decorated Marine Corps General
Paul Van Riper served more than 41 years in the United States Marine Corps, including wartime service in Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm. One of the keenest minds on the future of warfare and military strategy, he continues to serve his country by teaching at the National Defense University, the Marine Corps University, and other military education institutions. He also consults part-time for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) and to a variety of private companies and organizations. In 2002, he was chosen to lead Team Red, the “enemy forces” in Millennium Challenge 02, a $250 million war game designed by the DOD’s Joint Forces Command to test the adaptability and resiliency of the new military. After only four days into the simulated three-week battle, he had sunk a large part of the U.S. naval forces, using decidedly low-tech and unconventional maneuvers and tactics. He continues to advocate a better understanding of the nature of warfare, and cautions against relying too heavily on unproven technologies or concepts. Paul is a captivating speaker on his favorite topics: addressing the new realities of warfare and terrorism, retooling command and control for organizational effectiveness, complexity and adaptability, and the history of strategy and conflict.
Paul Van Zyl
Global Leader and Advisor on Transitional Justice & Human Rights
Paul van Zyl co-founded and was most recently the Executive Vice-President of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), an organization which assists countries pursuing accountability for past mass atrocity or human rights abuse. The ICTJ was founded in 2001 in response to a growing recognition that facing legacies of past abuse and injustice is crucial to promoting human rights around the world. By helping to address past crimes, transitional justice can help to break vicious cycles of violence and reduce the likelihood of future conflict.
Mr. van Zyl has acted as an adviser and consultant to human rights organizations, governments, international organizations, and foundations on transitional justice issues in numerous countries. From 1995 to 1998, he served as Executive Secretary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, helping to establish the Commission, develop its structure and modus operandi and manage its operations. He has also worked as a researcher for the Goldstone Commission, as a department head at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in Johannesburg, and as an associate at Davis Polk and Wardwell in New York.
Throughout his career, Mr. van Zyl has received a number of academic and professional honors. He has been selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, joining a group of extraordinary leaders under 40 who dedicate their time and energy to working towards a better global future. He was also selected as a TED Fellow, and was named as one of New York’s “Top 15 Lawyers Under 40” by New York Lawyer Magazine.
Mr. van Zyl also currently serves as director of New York University School of Law’s Transitional Justice Program, and teaches law both in New York and Singapore. He obtained a BA and an LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and an LLM in International Law from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Following these studies, he was accepted into the prestigious Hauser Global Scholars Program at New York University School of Law, where he completed a LLM in Corporate Law.
Ray Wang
Enterprise Strategist and Disruptive Technologies Expert
A highly sought after thought leader focused on enterprise strategy and disruptive technologies, R “Ray” Wang has advised organizations and spoken to audiences around the world. His dynamic presentation style brings life and energy to technology and business topics such as business process transformation, next generation software, SaaS/Cloud solutions, social CRM, analytics, and ERP. He is the author of the popular enterprise software blog “A Software Insider’s Point of View.” With viewership in the millions of page views a year, his blog provides insight into how disruptive technologies and business models impact the CXO, enterprise apps strategy, and emerging business and technology trends.
Ray works with organizations to provide strategic guidance in a variety of business scenarios including designing go-to-market strategies; reviewing and designing software licensing, pricing, support, and maintenance policies; delivering competitive assessments; evaluating software partner ecosystems, and researching business processes such as the perfect order and continuous customer management for the enterprise and SMB markets.
News outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Inc., CIO Magazine, Information Week, ComputerWorld, Financial Times, eWeek, IDG News, ZDNet, and CNBC frequently seek his point of view.
Ray is currently a Principal Analyst and CEO at Constellation Research Group. He previously was a founding partner and research analyst for enterprise strategy at Altimeter Group. Prior to joining Altimeter, he was VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester, where he was recognized in both 2008 and 2009 by the prestigious Institute of Industry Analyst Relations (IIAR) as the Analyst of the Year and in 2009 he was recognized as one of the most important analysts for Enterprise, SMB, and Software.
Ruth Wasserman Lande
Expert on Middle East and Foreign Policy
Ruth Wasserman Lande's personal history, education, and impressive professional experience make her uniquely qualified to advise governments, corporations, and NGOs on Middle East-related issues. Formerly, the advisor to Israel President, Mr. Shimon Peres, Ruth is currently working on her Ph.D. on Middle East issues, specifically "Israeli-Egyptian Relations 1979-2009: The Palestinian Dimension," at the University of Oxford. She is also Founder and Director of Public Relations and Media— pro bono positions—for the Lod Community Foundation which strives to develop one of the poorest, mixed Jewish-Arab cities in Israel.
The focus of Ruth’s work spans a broad spectrum including Arab-Israeli relations, US-Israeli strategic alliances, cross-cultural negotiation, and counterterrorism and nonproliferation. She is also passionate about the role women must play in the quest for peace in the Middle East. Ruth is committed to closing the gaps in the global religious and cultural divide. Her approach may help others better understand the myriad of interconnected issues that impact business, economics, culture, and politics in the region.
Ruth was born in Israel and raised in Cape Town, South Africa. She returned to Israel as a teenager and graduated, Cum Laude, from Bar Ilan University with a degree in International Relations and Communications. After completing her studies, she served as a political analyst in the Israeli Defense Force intelligence, rising to the rank of Captain.
Following military service, Ruth joined the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she served as the desk officer for the UK, Ireland, and Scandinavia. She was promoted to Advisor to the Deputy Director General for Strategic Affairs in the Foreign Ministry, dealing with counter-terrorism and counter-proliferation issues. During this time, she earned a Master of Arts (Cum Laude) in International Relations from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She received the “Simcha Pratt Prize” for excellence on a paper analyzing the Oslo Negotiations, and her reputation led to a three-year appointment as the political and economic advisor in the Israeli embassy in Cairo. She completed her service there as the acting Deputy Chief of Mission.
In 2006, Ruth was awarded a Wexner Fellowship to study at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she earned another master’s degree before assuming her position with President Peres’s office.
Ruth speaks fluent Hebrew, English, Russian, and Arabic, as well as conversational French.
Ruth with the President of the State of Israel, Mr. Shimon Peres
Ruth with the President of the United States, Mr. Barack Obama
Steve Weber
Political Economist and Critically Acclaimed Author
Steven Weber works at the intersection of technology markets, intellectual property regimes, and international politics. Steve is Professor of Political Science and Professor of The Information School at UC Berkeley, and Visiting Professor of Management and Senior Research Fellow at Moscow School of Management - Skolkovo. His research, teaching, and advisory work for the last decade have focused on the political economy of knowledge intensive industries, with special attention to health care, information technology, software, and global political economy issues relating to competitiveness. He is also a frequent contributor to scholarly and public debates on international relations and US foreign policy.
Steve went to medical school at Stanford then did his Ph.D. in the political science department at Stanford. He served as special consultant to the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and has held academic fellowships with the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was Director of the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley from 2003 to 2009.
Over the last 20 years Weber has consulted with multinational companies, government agencies, and non-profit organizations on risk analysis, strategy, and business forecasting in the areas of international political risk, technology, and global economic change, in part through Monitor Group in San Francisco and The Glover Park Group in Washington DC. Some recent clients include IBM, AMD, Dupont, Xstrata, Singtel, Visa, SK Group, PhRMA, Merck, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, ACLU, Governments of Singapore, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United States, Microsoft, CEMEX, Motorola, American Banking Association.
Steve’s 2004 book, The Success of Open Source, is the leading study of the political economy of the open source software community. He is the also the author of Cooperation and Discord in US – Soviet Arms Control, the editor of Globalization and the European Political Economy, and has written and co-written numerous articles in academic and popular publications about international political economy, globalization, emerging security issues, etc. (including “How Globalization Went Bad,” in Foreign Policy 2007, “A World Without the West,” The National Interest summer 2007, and "America's Hard Sell", Foreign Policy 2008). His most recent book, The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas (2010), with co-author Bruce Jentleson of Duke, proposes terms of global leadership for an emerging era of ideological competition. Forthcoming in March 2011, co-edited with Nils Gilman and Jesse Goldhammer, is Deviant Globalization: Black Market Economy in the 21st Century.
Lawrence Wilkinson
Executive, Advisor, and Commentator on the Future of Media and the Consumer
Lawrence Wilkinson provides strategic counsel and venture design services through the firm Heminge & Condell, based in San Francisco. He has been an active entrepreneur and advisor in the media and related businesses for more than 30 years. He helped create such diverse companies as Oxygen Media, Global Business Network (GBN), Ealing Studios, and Design Within Reach. Today, Lawrence continues to serve as Vice Chairman of Oxygen Media, Inc., which he co-founded with partners Geraldine Laybourne, Oprah Winfrey, Carsey-Werner-Mandabach, and Disney. Oxygen currently provides a cable television service reaching more than 40 million households in the U.S. (contracted to grow to a minimum of 60 million by the end of 2008) and award-winning web services. Lawrence continues to keep his hand in the film production world, serving as a director and advisor to Ealing Studios, Ltd.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
Technical Strategy and Innovation Expert
For over 30 years Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger influenced and shaped IBM’s innovation and technical strategy. During his tenure he was responsible for identifying emerging technologies and marketplace developments critical to the future of the IT industry, and organizing appropriate activities in and outside of IBM in order to capitalize on them. He led a number of successful companywide initiatives including the Internet and e-business, supercomputing, Linux, Grid computing and, in October 2002, IBM's On Demand Business initiative. Retired in 2007, Irving continues to consult for IBM on major new market strategies like Cloud Computing and Smart Planet.
A widely sought after expert in the fields of innovation, technology and transformation, Irving was appointed Strategic Advisor in March 2008 at Citigroup to assist with innovation and technology initiatives across the company. He is helping to formulate Citigroup initiatives related the future of global banking, including mobile banking, Internet-based financial services, and financial systems modeling and analysis. He was a member of President Obama's Technology, Innovation and Government Reform transition team. The goal of this initiative was to developed a set of policy proposals to make government more open and transparent, leverage high-technology to grow the economy and create jobs, and use social networking tools to involve citizens in government transformation through their collective energy and expertise.
Irving is Visiting Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and Engineering Systems Division, Adjunct Professor in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the Imperial College Business School, and Senior Fellow at the Levin Institute of the State University of New York. In addition, he is a member of several boards including the InnoCentive Advisory Board, the Spencer Trask Collaborative Innovations Board, the Board of Directors of the Federation of American Scientists, and the Visiting Committee for the Physical Sciences Division at the University of Chicago.
He was co-chair of the President Bill Clinton’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, as well as a founding member of the Computer Sciences and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. He is a former member of the University of Chicago Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratories, of the Board of Overseers for Fermilab and of BP’s Technology Advisory Council. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A native of Cuba, he was named the 2001 Hispanic Engineer of the Year.
Dr. Wladawsky-Berger received an M.S. and a Ph. D. in physics from the University of Chicago.
Terry F. Yosie
Thought Leader on Sustainable Business Practice
Terry Yosie joined the World Environment Center in October 2006 as the President & CEO. In this capacity, he develops and implements strategies to achieve this global non-profit organization’s mission to implement sustainable development through the business strategies and operations of global companies in partnership with government agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities and other stakeholders. WEC’s principal areas of focus have included climate change and energy efficiency, enterprise development, greening the supply chain and technological innovation. Dr. Yosie leads WEC’s global initiatives and frequently meets with business, government and other leaders to develop solutions to a variety of environmental, economic and social issues.
Dr. Yosie has held senior-level management positions in government, corporate and consulting organizations. He served as Vice President at the American Chemistry Council from 1999-2005, providing leadership to upgrade the chemical industry’s environmental, health, safety and security performance. He managed a global CEO Task Force in 2004-2005 to develop the Responsible Care Global Charter to improve chemical industry performance in 52 countries. He represented the industry as a delegate to the 2002 U.N. World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.
As the Executive Vice President of Ruder Finn Washington from 1992-1999, Dr. Yosie led the environmental management and communications practices of the firm for a wide range of clients such as BASF, British Petroleum, Pfizer, and Philips Electronics. At BP, he advised the company on climate change issues that led to a new strategy announced in 1997 by the CEO John Browne.
Dr. Yosie served as Vice President for Health and Environment at the American Petroleum Institute from 1988-1992. In this capacity, he successfully led the industry’s effort to negotiate cleaner fuel standards with EPA, state and local agencies and environmental organizations that impacted over $40 billion dollars in refining investments.
From 1978-1988, Dr. Yosie was employed at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board where he also served as Director from 1981-1988, In this role, he advised EPA Administrators and the U.S. Congress on the scientific basis of public health and environmental decisions, and he instituted policies and procedures to improve the technical basis for EPA-wide policy decisions and risk assessments. He was a member of the U.S. delegation for the bilateral environmental program with the Soviet Union and negotiated diverse agreements with that country.
Dr. Yosie has recently served as a member of the National Research Council Committee that published a major study, Science and Decisions (December 2008). He is the author of more than sixty professional publications and co-editor of a book entitled, Sustainable Environmental Management. He received his doctorate degree in Humanities and Social Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University in 1981 and has been designated by the University as one of its Most Notable Alumni.
Jonathan Zittrain
Foremost Authority on the Future of the Internet
Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government, co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and Professor of Computer Science in the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society and is on the board of advisors for Scientific American. Previously, he was Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Forum Fellow of the World Economic Forum, which has named him a Young Global Leader.
His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education. His book, The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It, focuses on the future of the now-intertwined Internet and PC, and he has co-edited two studies of Internet filtering by national governments, including Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering.
Ethan Zuckerman
Fellow, The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law; Founder, Global Voices
Ethan Zuckerman is an activist and scholar whose work focuses on the global blogosphere, free expression and social translation in the developing world. He is the director of the MIT Center for Civic Media. In this role, Ethan contributes both to the understanding of the role and power of civic media in the broader media ecosystem, and builds tools that help communities around the world share their perspectives and stories.
Prior to joining MIT, Ethan was a longtime fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society where he focused his research on the impact of technology on the developing world. His projects included a study of global media attention, research on the use of weblogs and other social software in the developing world, and the use of web 2.0 technologies by activists.
In 2004, he co-founded Global Voices, an award-winning international citizen media network. Global Voices maintains an online newsroom, which reports from over 100 nations via weblogs and a translation network that publishes content in 12 languages. Global Voices offers trainings in citizen medium podcasting and videocasting throughout the developing world, and runs an advocacy project that supports free speech online.
Ethan has also been involved with founding several internet start-ups including: Tripod, an early pioneer in the web community space; and Geekcorps, a non profit group that provided technology assistance to governments and companies in the developing world.
Ethan graduated from Williams College with a BA in Philosophy in 1993. In 1993-4, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Legon, Ghana and the National Theatre of Ghana, studying ethnomusicology and percussion.
Ethan was given the 2002 Technology in Service of Humanity Award by MIT's Technology Review Magazine and named to the TR100, TR's list of innovators under the age of 35. In 2004, Ethan was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum.
He lives the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts with his wife Rachel. He serves on the boards of regional and international organizations that focus on technology and education, including on the sub-boards of the Open Society Institute's Information Program and US Program.
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