Rosabeth Moss Kanter 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 one of the "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.
Theodore Levitt was a German-born American economist and a professor at the Harvard Business School. He was editor of the Harvard Business Review,noted for increasing the Review's circulation and popularizing the term globalization. In 1983,he proposed a definition for corporate purpose:"Rather than merely making money,it is to create and keep a customer".
Shoshana Zuboff is an American author,professor,social psychologist,philosopher,and scholar.
Joseph L. Badaracco is an American author,and the John Shad Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School. He has taught courses on business ethics,strategy and management in the School's MBA and executive programs.
Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University,a private research university in Boston,Massachusetts. It 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.
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.
Mikołaj Jan Piskorski who often goes by Misiek is Dean of IMD Asia and Oceania and a Professor of Strategy and Innovation at IMD Business School. 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.
Amy Joy Casselberry Cuddy is an American social psychologist,author and speaker. She is a proponent of "power posing",a self-improvement technique whose scientific validity has been questioned. She has served as a faculty member at Rutgers University,Kellogg School of Management and Harvard Business School. Cuddy's most cited academic work involves using the stereotype content model that she helped develop to better understand the way people think about stereotyped people and groups. Though Cuddy left her tenure-track position at Harvard Business School in the spring of 2017,she continues to contribute to its executive education programs.
Patricia H. Thornton is an American organizational theorist,and Grand Challenge Initiative Professor of Sociology and Entrepreneurship at Texas A&M University as well as Adjunct Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. She is known for her work on "the sociology of entrepreneurship" and "the Institutional Logics Perspective."
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.
Herminia Ibarra is a scholar in the fields of organizational behaviour,leadership,and career development. She is the Charles Handy Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School.
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.
Leonard A. (Len) Schlesinger is an American author,educator,and business leader. He is currently the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and President Emeritus of Babson College where he served as the college's 12th President from 2008 through 2013.
Lynn S. Paine is currently a Baker Foundation Professor and John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration,Emerita,at Harvard Business School. Her research interests are company ethical and financial leadership and corporate governance,focusing on how companies can maintain high ethical standards while achieving outstanding financial results. Her latest book is Capitalism at Risk,Updated and Expanded:How Business Can Lead,with HBS colleagues Joe Bower and Dutch Leonard. Her text and casebook Cases in Leadership,Ethics,and Organizational Integrity:A Strategic Perspective came out in 1996. Library Journal named her book Value Shift:Why Companies Must Merge Social and Financial Imperatives to Achieve Superior Performance one of that year’s best business books. Her recent publications also include "Covid-19 Is Rewriting the Rules of Corporate Governance," "A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance," "CEOs Say Their Aim Is Inclusive Prosperity. Do They Mean It?," “The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership,”and “Sustainability in the Boardroom" —all published in the Harvard Business Review. She has written more than 200 cases taught at HBS and other business schools.
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).
Christopher Marquis is the Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management at the Judge Business School,University of Cambridge,England,and a Fellow at Jesus College,Cambridge.
Frédéric Godart is a French sociologist and researcher who is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD in Fontainebleau (France). His work is on the dynamics of creative industries,and fashion and luxury. He is co-editor-in-chief of Poetics:Journal of Empirical Research on Culture,the Media and the Arts. Godart's 2012 book is called Unveiling Fashion:Business,Culture,and Identity in the Most Glamorous Industry.
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.
