Serendipity is an unplanned fortunate discovery. In 1754 Horace Walpole coined the word and described an amazing discovery as being “of that kind which I call Serendipity”. Robert K. Merton first came upon the concept-and-term of serendipity in the 1930s in the Oxford English Dictionary. Here, he discovered that the word had been coined by Walpole. Merton revealed 1946 his concept of the "serendipity pattern" in empirical research, of observing an unanticipated, anomalous, and strategic datum, which becomes the occasion for developing a new theory. Merton describes it later as "the discovery through chance by a theoretically prepared mind of valid findings which were not sought for"
Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad was an Indian-American entrepreneur and author.
Imperial College Business School is the graduate business school of Imperial College London in England. The business school was established in 2003 and officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II. The school fosters an entrepreneurial culture by integrating business disciplines with a science-based curriculum. It offers a range of programmes, including Master of Business Administration degrees, various Master's programmes, Doctor of Philosophy programmes, and executive education. According to the 2023 QS MBA Rankings, Imperial's MBA programme is ranked third in the world for career specialisation in entrepreneurship. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, the business school is ranked second in the UK for business and management studies.
Steve Blank is an American entrepreneur, educator, author and speaker. He created the customer development method that launched the lean startup movement. His work has influenced modern entrepreneurship through the creation of tools and processes for new ventures which differ from those used in large companies.
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk, and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones.
Innovation management is a combination of the management of innovation processes, and change management. It refers to product, business process, marketing and organizational innovation. Innovation management is the subject of ISO 56000 series standards being developed by ISO TC 279.
Rita Gunther McGrath is an American strategic management scholar and professor of management at the Columbia Business School. She is known for her work on strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship, including the development of discovery-driven planning.
Soumodip Sarkar is an economist and management scholar.
Umair Haque is a British economist, consultant and author. He was the director of the Havas Media Lab, has previously blogged in the Harvard Business Review and is author of the book The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business. The book sets the "incumbent" capitalists of the 20th century against the 21st "insurgents" and states that the latter are creating a more sustainable "new capitalism". He has written on economic and civilizational issues on the Medium writing platform but is now less active on Medium and prefers Eudaimonia&Co. and The Issue.
Toke Reichstein is a Danish economist and Professor at Copenhagen Business School. He is best known for his work on "Investigating the sources of process innovation among UK manufacturing firms."
Nicholas Bloom is the William Eberle Professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University, a Courtesy Professor at Stanford Business School and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and a co-director of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Alnoor Bhimani is Professor of Management Accounting and Director of the South Asia Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is former Head of the Department of Accounting and the Founding Director of LSE Entrepreneurship. Bhimani's academic work covers financial management and digitalisation; managerial accounting and strategic finance; entrepreneurship and economic growth; and global development and governance issues.
Michael G. Jacobides is a British economist and public speaker. His main areas of interest are digital platforms and ecosystems, financial services and turnarounds. He is the Sir Donald Gordon Chair of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at London Business School. He is Academic Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group, Chief Expert Advisor on Digital Economy to the Hellenic Competition Commission, visiting scholar at the New York Fed, and visiting fellow at Cambridge University.
Julie Battilana is a scholar, educator, and advisor in the areas of social innovation and social change at Harvard University. She is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Amy C. Edmondson is an American scholar of leadership, teaming, and organizational learning. She is currently Professor of Leadership at Harvard Business School. Edmondson is the author of seven books and more than 75 articles and case studies. She is best known for her pioneering work on psychological safety, which has helped spawn a large body of academic research in management, healthcare and education over the past 15 years. Her books include "Right Kind of Wrong, the Science of Failing Well", “The Fearless Organization,Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth” (2018)) and “Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate and Compete in the Knowledge Economy” (2012).
Nava Ashraf, is a Canadian economist and academic. She is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, as well as research director of the Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship. Her research interests include development economics, behavioral economics, and family economics.
Morten T. Hansen is a Norwegian-American professor, management theorist, motivational speaker and author.
Soren Marcus Kaplan is an author, consultant, and speaker on the subject of innovation and innovation culture in organizations. He is an Affiliate at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, founder of the consulting firm InnovationPoint, co-founder of the software company Praxie.com, and is a columnist for the Innovate column of Inc. Magazine.
Alessandro Di Fiore was an Italian entrepreneur, founder of ECSI, a consulting firm. He also served as the chairman of Harvard Business Review Italia. Di Fiore was best known for developing the “Insight-Driven” Organisation concept and writing the foreword to the book “Strategia Oceano Blu – Vincere senza Competere.”
Thomas J. Roulet is a French-British social scientist, management thinker and professor at the University of Cambridge where he holds the Chair of Organisational Sociology and Leadership. He has advanced the concept of negative social evaluations and is known for his research on wellbeing in the context of remote work. He is a Faculty at the Judge Business School, and a Fellow of King's College Cambridge.
