Robert Charles Pozen,known as "Bob",is an American financial executive with a strong interest in public policy. He is the former chairman of MFS Investment Management,the oldest mutual fund company in the United States. Previously,Pozen was the President of Fidelity Investments.
Sumantra Ghoshal was an Indian scholar and educator. He served as a professor of strategic and international management at the London Business School,and was the founding Dean of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. Ghoshal met Christopher Bartlett while he was a PhD student at Harvard. Both of whom have gone on to become frequent contributors at Harvard Business Review and both have collaborated in writing several influential books and articles relating to leadership and organization managements.
Emlyon Business School is a private business school in Lyon,France,established in 1872,and affiliated with the Lyon Chamber of Commerce and Industry. A grande école de commerce,Emlyon Business School offers a wide range of academic programs,including the Global BBA,Masters in Management,M.Sc. in Finance,MBA,and Exec. MBA degrees,alongside Specialized Masters programs,and a Ph.D. program in Management. The school also provides a wide portfolio of Executive Education programs for senior executives &experienced managers.
Andrew (Andy) John Hoffman is a scholar of environmental issues and sustainable business. He is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan,with joint appointments at the Ross School of Business and the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS). He has also served as Faculty Director and Associate Director of the Frederick A. and Barbara M. Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise,and as Education Director at the Graham Sustainability Institute. Prior to the University of Michigan,he completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and served on the faculty of the Boston University School of Management.
Rakesh Khurana is an Indian-American educator. He is a professor of sociology at Harvard University,a professor of leadership development at Harvard Business School,and the dean of Harvard College.
Lawrence D. Hite is a hedge fund manager who,along with Ed Seykota,is one of the forefathers of system trading. He is the author of the book,The Rule:How I Beat the Odds in the Markets and in Life—and How You Can Too, which was named a Wall Street Journal,LA Times,and Porchlight Books bestseller.
John Anthony Quelch CBE is a British-American academic and professor. Quelch is the executive vice chancellor of Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan,China. He is the former dean of the University of Miami School of Business at the University of Miami in Coral Gables,Florida from 2017 to 2022.
Richard A. D'Aveni is an American academic,thought leader,business consultant,bestselling author and the Bakala Professor of Strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is best known for creating a new paradigm in business strategy and coining the term “hypercompetition”which led Fortune to liken him to a modern version of Sun Tzu.
Doug Guthrie is an American academic administrator,sociologist,and China scholar. He is currently professor of global leadership and director of China initiatives at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at The Arizona State University. He was previously the dean of The George Washington University School of Business,and professor of management and sociology and director of executive education and NYU's Stern School of Business. He has also served as a visiting professor of management at the business schools of Columbia,Stanford,Harvard,Emory,and INSEAD and as director of the Business Institutions Initiative at the Social Science Research Council.
Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award is an annual award given to the best business book of the year as determined by the Financial Times. It aims to find the book that has "the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues". The award was established in 2005 and is worth £30,000. Beginning in 2010,five short-listed authors each receive £10,000,previously it was £5,000.
Steven George Mandis is an American investor and the founder of Kalamata Capital. He is an adjunct associate professor in finance and economics at Columbia University Business School. Previously,he worked at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup and as a senior advisor to McKinsey. He is the author of three books:What Happened to Goldman Sachs:An Insider's Story of Organizational Drift and its Unintended Consequences,The Real Madrid Way:How Values Created the Most Successful Sports Team on the Planet,and What Happened to Serie A:The Rise,Fall and Signs of Revival.
Stephen Leeb is a money manager and investment adviser. For more than 45 years he has been guiding investors via newsletters,books,blogs,and appearances on financial news networks including CNN,Fox News,NPR and Bloomberg TV.
Mauro F. Guillén is a Spanish-American sociologist and political economist who is currently the William H. Wurster Professor of Multinational Management at the Wharton School. In March 2021,he was named Dean of the Cambridge Judge Business School,and a Fellow of Queens' College at the University of Cambridge;he returned to Wharton in 2023. Until July 2021,he directed the Penn Lauder Center for International Business Education and Research,and was the Anthony L. Davis Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies from 2007 to 2019. His book 2030:How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything was a Wall Street Journal bestseller and a Financial Times Book of the Year.
Phil Simon is an American speaker,professor,and author. He writes about management,technology,disruption,communication,and analytics.
A state-owned enterpriseof China is a legal entity that undertakes commercial activities on behalf of an owner government.
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).
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.
Michelle Penelope King is a white South African born journalist,writer,women's rights activist and advocate for gender equality. Since December 2019,King has been director of inclusion at Netflix,a department responsible for inclusion and diversity among corporate employees.
Anne S. Tsui is a professor of International management,who holds the positions of Motorola Professor Emerita of International Management at Arizona State University,distinguished adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame,and distinguished visiting professor at Peking University and Fudan University,China.
Shrihari (Hari) Sridhar is an American scholar and author. He serves as Senior Associate Dean of Mays Business School at Texas A&M University,and holds the Joe B. Foster '56 Chair in Business Leadership. He also serves as the Editor in Chief for the Journal of Marketing. He is known for his work on marketing strategy,the financial impact of marketing investments,and the societal impact of marketing strategies.
