Clayton Magleby Christensen was an American academic and business consultant who developed the theory of "disruptive innovation",which has been called the most influential business idea of the early 21st century. Christensen introduced "disruption" in his 1997 book The Innovator's Dilemma,and it led The Economist to term him "the most influential management thinker of his time." He served as the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School (HBS),and was also a leader and writer in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was one of the founders of the Jobs to Be Done development methodology.
Michael Eugene Porter is an American businessman and professor at Harvard Business School. He was one of the founders of the consulting firm The Monitor Group and FSG,a social impact consultancy. He is credited with creating Porter's five forces analysis,which is instrumental in business strategy development at present. He is generally regarded as the father of the modern strategy field. He is also regarded as one of the world's most influential thinkers on management and competitiveness as well as one of the most influential business strategists. His work has been recognized by governments,non-governmental organizations and universities.
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship is a Swiss not-for-profit organization founded in 1998 that provides platforms at regional,national,and global levels to promote social entrepreneurship. The foundation is under the legal supervision of the Swiss Federal Government. Its headquarters are in Geneva,Switzerland. Each year,it selects 20–25 social entrepreneurs through a global "Social Entrepreneur of the Year" competition.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter is an American sociologist who is a professor of business at Harvard Business School. She co-founded the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative and served as Director and Founding Chair from 2008 to 2018. She was the top-ranking woman—No. 11 overall—in a 2002 study of Top Business Intellectuals by citation in several sources. She was named one of the "50 most powerful women in Boston" by Boston Magazine and named one of "125 women who changed our world" over the past 125 years by Good Housekeeping magazine in May 2010.
Kim Bryce Clark is an American scholar,educator,and religious leader who has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since April 2015,and was the church's seventeenth Commissioner of Church Education from 2015 to 2019. He served previously as the 15th president of Brigham Young University–Idaho from 2005 to 2015,and as the dean of the Harvard Business School (HBS) from 1995 to 2005,where he was also the George F. Baker Professor of Business Administration.
Social innovations are new social practices that aim to meet social needs in a better way than the existing solutions,resulting from - for example - working conditions,education,community development or health. These ideas are created with the goal of extending and strengthening civil society. Social innovation includes the social processes of innovation,such as open source methods and techniques and also the innovations which have a social purpose—like activism,crowdfunding,time-based currency,telehealth,cohousing,coworking,universal basic income,collaborative consumption,social enterprise,participatory budgeting,repair Café,virtual volunteering,microcredit,or distance learning. There are many definitions of social innovation,however,they usually include the broad criteria about social objectives,social interaction between actors or actor diversity,social outputs,and innovativeness. Different definitions include different combinations and different number of these criteria. Transformative social innovation not only introduces new approaches to seemingly intractable problems,but is successful in changing the social institutions that created the problem in the first place.
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.
Shoshana Zuboff is an American author,professor,social psychologist,philosopher,and scholar.
Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University,a private Ivy League research university. Located in Allston,Massachusetts,HBS owns Harvard Business Publishing,which publishes business books,leadership articles,case studies,and Harvard Business Review,a monthly academic business magazine. It is also home to the Baker Library/Bloomberg Center,the school's primary library.
Teresa M. Amabile is an American academic who is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School.
Karen Gordon Mills is an American businessperson and former government official who served as the 23rd Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). She was nominated by President-elect Barack Obama on December 19,2008,confirmed unanimously by the Senate on April 2,2009,and sworn in on April 6,2009. During her tenure,her office was elevated to the rank of Cabinet-level officer,expanding her power on policy decisions and granting her inclusion in the President's cabinet meetings. On February 11,2013,she announced her resignation as Administrator and left the post on September 1,2013.
Mikołaj Jan Piskorski who often goes by Misiek is Dean of Executive Education at IMD Business School in Lausanne,Switzerland. He is known for his research in the area of digital transformation,on-line social platforms and study of how companies leverage social platforms to improve their profitability.
Christopher A. Bartlett is an Australian organizational theorist,and Emeritus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School,known for his work on multinational corporation and transnational management with Sumantra Ghoshal.
Michael L. Tushman is an American organizational theorist,management adviser,and Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is known for his early work on organizational design with David A. Nadler,and later work on disruptive innovation,organizational environments,and organizational evolution. He is also co-founder and director of Change-Logic,a consulting firm based in Boston,US.
Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli is a Nigerian entrepreneur,an expert on African agriculture and nutrition,philanthropy,and social innovation. Since April 2,2024,she has been serving as the CEO of the One Campaign.
Dr. Carliss Y. Baldwin is an American economist and the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Her book on modularity in complex technological systems,Design Rules,published in 2000 and co-written with Kim B. Clark,has been called "a landmark book" that has impacted research on organization theory,competitive strategy,and innovation.
Stefan Thomke is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with global business leaders and taught many executive programs on product,process,and technology development,customer experience design,operational improvement,company turnarounds,and innovation strategy. He is currently the faculty chair of the General Management and Managing Innovation executive education programs at Harvard Business School. Previously,Thomke was faculty chair of the MBA Required Curriculum and faculty co-chair of the doctoral program in Science,Technology and Management. He was also faculty chair of HBS executive education and research in South Asia.
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).
Isabelle Ferreras is a Belgian sociologist and a political scientist. She is a professor of sociology at the University of Louvain where she is affiliated with the Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires Démocratie,Institutions,Subjectivité. She is also a senior research associate at the Labor and Work life Program at Harvard Law School. Furthermore,Ferreras is a tenured fellow of the Belgian National Science Foundation. Since the spring of 2017 she has been a member of the group called Classe Technologie et Sociétéin the Royal Academy of Sciences,Humanities and the Arts of Belgium where she in 2021 and 2022 holds the position as president of the academy as well as the chairman of her group.
Ashley Whillans is a Canadian and American author,former actor and assistant professor at Harvard Business School. She researches the ways that people's decisions about time and money impact their well-being. She has given a TED Talk.
