Andrew Michael Spence is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate.
Integrative thinking is a field that was developed by Graham Douglas in 1986. It is defined as the process of integrating intuition,reason,and imagination in a human mind to develop a holistic continuum of strategy,tactics,action,review,and evaluation. This may be achieved by applying the SOARA process to any problem. The SOARA Process facilitates finding associations between what may have been regarded as unrelated parts of a problem.
The Joseph L. Rotman School of Management is the University of Toronto's graduate business school,located in Downtown Toronto. The University of Toronto has been offering undergraduate courses in commerce and management since 1901,but the business school was formally established in 1950 as the Institute of Business Administration. The name was changed to the Faculty of Management Studies in 1972 and subsequently shortened to the Faculty of Management in 1986. The school was renamed in 1997 after Joseph L. Rotman (1935–2015),its principal benefactor.
John C. Hull is a professor of Derivatives and Risk Management at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
Daniel Trefler is a Canadian economist who is currently the J. Douglas and Ruth Grant Chair in Competitiveness and Prosperity at the Rotman School of Management,University of Toronto. He is among the most influential and frequently cited economists worldwide.
Joseph Louis Rotman,,was a noted Canadian businessman and philanthropist. Rotman was the founder,benefactor and member of many successful organizations,such as the Clairvest Group Inc.,the Rotman Research Institute,the Rotman School of Management,and the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. Throughout his life,he received three honorary degrees,as well as an induction into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. He is well-regarded for donating his time and financial assistance to numerous philanthropic causes including the arts,education and healthcare.
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.
Nirmalya Kumar is Professor of Marketing of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University. He has served on the Boards of ACC Limited,Ambuja Cements,Bata India,BP Ergo,Defaqto,Tata Capital,Tata Chemicals,Tata Industries,Tata Limited (UK),Tata Unistore,Ultratech,and Zensar Technologies. He received the 2021 Mahajan Award for Lifetime Contributions to Marketing Strategy by the Marketing Strategy SIG of the American Marketing Association (AMA).
Stewart D. Friedman is Emeritus Professor of Management Practice at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and the founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program and Wharton's Work/Life Integration Project. He has been on the Wharton faculty since 1984 and has been recognized for his research,teaching,practice,and advocacy in the fields of Leadership Development,Human Resources and Work–Life Integration. In 2001,Friedman completed a two-year assignment as the director of the Leadership Development Center at Ford Motor Company,where he ran a 50-person,$25 million operation.
The Opposable Mind:How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking is a book written by Roger Martin and published by the Harvard Business Review Press in 2007. The book aims to introduce a concept of integrative thinking,using academic theory and insights from prominent business leaders to substantiate the idea.
Martin Lindstrom (Lindstrøm) is a Danish author and Time magazine Influential 100 Honoree. He has written eight books including Small Data:The Tiny Clues that Uncover Huge Trends,Buyology –Truth and Lies About Why We Buy,Brandwashed –Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy,his first title written for consumers,for which Lindstrom conducted a $3 million word-of-mouth marketing experiment,and 2021 released The Ministry of Common Sense. Brandwashed was inspired by the 2009 film,The Joneses –to study the effects of social influence on purchasing decisions.
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.
Navi Radjou is an Indian born scholar and an innovation and leadership advisor based in Silicon Valley. He is a Fellow of Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge and has spoken and written widely on the theme of frugal innovation.
The Design of Business:Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage is a 2009 book by Roger Martin,Dean of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. In the book,Martin describes the concept of design thinking,and how companies can incorporate it into their organizational structure for long term innovation and results.
Adam M. Grant is an American popular science author,and professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology.
W. Chan Kim is a South Korean business theorist. He is a Professor of Strategy and Management at INSEAD,and co-director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute in Fontainebleau,France. He is known as co-author of the 2005 book Blue Ocean Strategy.
Mark Esposito is a Swiss economist and professor who has taught at Harvard University,Hult International Business School,and Arizona State University. He was appointed a fellow of the Mohammed bin Rashid School of Government in Dubai in 2017 and as a global expert for the World Economic Forum.
Sangeet Paul Choudary is a business executive,advisor,and best-selling author. He is best known for his work on platform economics and network effects. He is the co-author of the international best-selling book Platform Revolution:How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You.
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.
