- George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America. Originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001, Bush was elected president in the 2000 presidential election and re-elected in the 2004 presidential election. He previously served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000, and is the eldest son of former United States president George H. W. Bush.
- Michael Porter
Michael Eugene Porter is an American academic focused on management and economics. He has made important contributions to strategic management and strategy theory, Porter's main academic objectives focus on how a firm or a region can build a competitive advantage and develop competitive strategy. Porter's strategic system consists primarily of: * 5 forces analysis * strategic groups (also called strategic sets) * the value chain * the generic strategies of cost leadership, …
- Robert S. Kaplan
Dr. Robert Kaplan , Chairman- Balanced Scorecard Collaborative & Professor- Harvard Business School; delivered a seminar on Execution as Competitive Advantage: New Strategies for the Information Age at the Oberoi Hotel, New Delhi on February 15, 2005. Amity Business School was the academic partner to bringing this world renowned management guru to .....
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Rosabeth Moss Kanter is a tenured professor in business at Harvard Business School, where she holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship. She has written numerous books on business management techniques, particularly change management. She also has a regular column in the Miami Herald. She is known for her classic 1977 study of tokenism - how being a minority in a group can affect one's performance due to enhanced visibility and performance pressure.
- John Kotter
John Paul Kotter is a professor at the Harvard Business School, who is widely regarded as the world's foremost authority on leadership and change. His has been the premier voice on how the best organizations actually "do" change. John Kotter’s international bestseller Leading Change—which outlined an actionable, 8-step process for implementing successful transformations—became the change bible for managers around the world.
- David Maister
David H. Maister (born July 21, 1947) is a former Harvard Business School professor, American writer and expert on business management practices and the management of professional service firms. He is best-known for writing the management textbook, "Managing the Professional Service Firm", and co-writing "The Trusted Advisor" with Charles H. Green and Robert M. Galford. Born and raised in London, England, Maister became a citizen of the United States in 2006.
- Kim B. Clark
Kim B. Clark (born March 20 1949 in Salt Lake City, Utah), President of Brigham Young University-Idaho from 2005 to present, Dean of the Faculty at Harvard Business School from 1995 to 2005, was the George F. Baker Professor of Administration. A member of the Harvard faculty starting in 1978, Clark received his B.A. (1974), MA (1977), and Ph.D. (1978) degrees in economics from Harvard.
- Henry Chesbrough
Henry Chesbrough is the executive director of the Center for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on managing technology and innovation. His new book, Open Innovation (Harvard Business School Press, 2003), articulates a new paradigm for organizing and managing R&D, in which companies must access external as well as internal technologies and take them to market through internal and external paths.
- Sumantra Ghoshal
Sumantra Ghoshal (1948-2004) was the founding Dean of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, which is jointly sponsored by the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and the London Business School. Ghoshal co-authored "Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution", with Christopher Bartlett, which has been listed in the Financial Times as one of the 50 most influential management books and has been translated into nine languages.
- Chris Argyris
Chris Argyris is the James Conant Professor of Education and Organizational Behavior Emeritus at Harvard University. He has consulted to numerous private and governmental organizations. He has received awards including eleven honorary degrees and lifetime contributions awards from the Academy of Management, American Psychological Association, and American Society of Training Directors.
- Theodore Levitt
Theodore Levitt (b. March 1 1925, Vollmerz, Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Germany - d. June 28 2006, Belmont, Massachusetts) was an American economist and professor at Harvard Business School. He was also editor of the "Harvard Business Review" and an editor who was especially noted for increasing the Review's circulation and for coining the term globalization.
- Jeff Immelt
Jeffrey R. Immelt is the ninth chairman of GE, a post he has held since September 7, 2001. Mr. Immelt has held several global leadership positions since coming to GE in 1982, including roles in GE's Plastics, Appliance, and Medical businesses. In 1989 he became an officer of GE and joined the GE Capital Board in 1997. A couple years later, in 2000, Mr. Immelt was appointed president and chief executive officer.
- Fred Reichheld
Frederick F. Reichheld (born 1952, Cleveland) is an United States business author and business strategist best known for his research and writing on the loyalty business model and Loyalty Marketing. His books include "The Loyalty Effect" (1996), "Loyalty Rules!" (2001), and "The Ulimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth" (2006). He has also authored articles for business publications such as "Harvard Business Review".
- A. G. Lafley
Alan George Lafley (born June 13, 1947) is the CEO and an executive director of Procter & Gamble. He joined P&G upon his graduation, in 1977. He assumed the CEO office in 2000. He is American and was born in Keene, New Hampshire. He graduated from Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois and received a B.A. from Hamilton College in 1969 and a MBA from Harvard Business School in 1977 (after serving in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War).
- Rick Wagoner
George Richard "Rick" Wagoner, Jr. (born February 9, 1953) is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors. Rick Wagoner was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and grew up in Richmond, Virginia and graduated from John Randolph Tucker High School. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from Duke University in 1975 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1977. After Harvard, he joined GM as an analyst in the treasurer's office.
- Stan O'Neal
E. Stanley "Stan" O'Neal is the present Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., having served in numerous senior management positions at the company prior to this appointment. O'Neal was a member of the board of directors of General Motors from 2001 through 2006.
- Gary Loveman
Gary Loveman is an American business executive and former academic. He is the current Chief Executive Officer of Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. and has held the position since 2003. Before joining Harrah's as Chief Operating Officer in 1998, Loveman was a professor at the Harvard Business School. He has a Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School of Management. As CEO, Loveman has concentrated on attracting average gamblers to Harrah's casinos, …
- Marvin Bower
Marvin Bower (born August 1, 1903 in Cincinnati, Ohio - died January 22, 2003 in Delray Beach, Florida). The son of the deputy recorder at Cuyahoga County, he grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and attended public schools there. He earned his bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1925. His father advised him to study law, and Bower graduated from Harvard Law School in 1928. Bower then attended Harvard Business School, graduating in 1930.
- Michael Jensen
Michael C. Jensen joined the faculty of the Harvard Business School in 1990. Currently, he is the managing director in charge of organizational strategy at Monitor Group, a strategy consulting firm. Before that, he was a professor of finance and business administration at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.
- Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is a self-described authority on emerging digital technology, and considered a founding member of the digerati. Esther Dyson is the daughter of Freeman Dyson, a physicist, and Verana Huber-Dyson, a mathematician, and the sister of the digital technology historian George Dyson. After graduating from Harvard in economics, she joined Forbes as a fact-checker and quickly rose to reporter.
- Scott Cook
Scott Cook (Intuit, Inc.), HBS 1976, started his career at Procter & Gamble, where he learned about product development, market research, and marketing. He soon began using the insights he was learning there to look for an idea for a company of his own. That idea came to him one day when his wife was complaining about paying the bills. With personal computers just coming out at the time, …
- Shoshana Zuboff
Shoshana Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School (retired). She was born in 1951 [place unknown] and is an American citizen. One of the first tenured women at the Harvard Business School, she earned her Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University and her B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago.
- Arthur Rock
Arthur Rock (born August 19, 1926) is a venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, California. He was an early investor in major firms including Intel, Apple Computer, Scientific Data Systems and Teledyne. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in business administration from Syracuse University in 1948 and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1951. Rock started his career in 1951 as a security analyst in New York City, …
- George S. Day
George S. Day is the Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of Business. He is well known for his research on aligning organizations with their markets competitive strategies in global markets, strategy development, and managing innovation processes. He previously taught at Stanford University, IMD (International Management Development Institute) in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the University of Toronto, …
- Richard L. Nolan
Richard L. Nolan is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School.
- Suzy Welch
Suzy Welch (nee Wetlaufer) (b. 1959) is a former editor of the "Harvard Business Review". She gained notoriety after being forced to resign as editor in early 2002 after admitting having an affair with Jack Welch, the former chief executive officer of General Electric while preparing an interview with him for the magazine.
- Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson (b. April 18, 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish historian best known for his views on imperialism and the origins of conflict in the twentieth century. After attending The Glasgow Academy, he was educated as a Demy at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class honours degree. After two years as a Hanseatic Scholar in Hamburg and Berlin, he took up a Research Fellowship at Christ's College Cambridge University, in 1989, …
- John Smith
John Smith (b. August 1957) is the BBC Worldwide's Chief Executive Officer since June 2004. He attended the Shelton Lock school (which became Merrill College) in Derby. He later went to the Harvard Business School. He worked for British Rail Engineering Limited, Sealink, Seaspeed Hovercraft, and other companies owned by the BR Group. He joined the BBC in 1989, becoming the BBC's Finance Director in 1996. In April 2000, he became Director of Finance, …
- Hirotaka Takeuchi
Hirotaka Takeuchi is dean of the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and was a visiting professor at Harvard Business School in 1989 and 1990. Hirotaka holds an MBA and PhD from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
- Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr. (September 15 1918 -May 9 2007). Born in Guyencourt, Delaware, Chandler was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School, wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. Professor Chandler graduated from Harvard College in 1940. After wartime service in navy he returned to Harvard to get his Ph.D. in History.
- Fred Hassan
Fred Hassan is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Schering-Plough Corporation. Prior to joining Schering-Plough in April 2003 and assuming his current position, Mr. Hassan was chairman and chief executive officer of Pharmacia Corporation. He joined the former Pharmacia & Upjohn in May 1997 as chief executive officer and was elected to the Board of Directors.
- Erich Joachimsthaler
Erich Joachimsthaler is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Vivaldi Partners, a global strategy, innovation, and marketing firm with headquarters in New York City. He is the author of more than sixty articles on strategy, branding, and marketing in academic and business journals. Joachimsthaler was an academic at the University of Southern California, and after finishing his post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Business School, …
- Zvi Bodie
Zvi Bodie is the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management at Boston University. He holds a Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has served on the finance faculty at the Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management. Professor Bodie has published widely on pension finance and investment strategy in leading professional journals. His books include "Foundations of Pension Finance", "Pensions in the U.S. Economy", …
- Ronald A. Heifetz
Ronald Heifetz , M.D. King Hussein bin Talal Professor of Public Leadership Kennedy School of Government
- Elton Mayo
George Elton Mayo (born Adelaide, December 26 1880; died September 7 1949) was a psychologist and sociologist. He lectured at the University of Queensland from 1919 to 1923 then moved to the University of Pennsylvania, but spent most of his career at Harvard Business School (1926 to 1947) where he was professor of industrial research.
- David A. Moss
David A. Moss is a writer and professor at the Harvard Business School of the Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. He has published two books "Socializing Security: Progressive-Era Economists and the Origins of American Social Policy" and "When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager"
- Kathy Giusti
Kathy Giusti is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) and the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium (MMRC). In 1998 following her diagnosis with multiple myeloma, she founded the MMRF to fund innovative myeloma research and drug discovery. Having raised more than $100 million to date, the MMRF is the world's number one funder of myeloma research.
- Jon Burgstone
Mr. Burgstone is Managing Director of Symbol Capital, a San Francisco-based hedge fund, where he leads the firm's activities in portfolio management and research. Mr. Burgstone also served as Founding Faculty Chair and is currently Adjunct Professor of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. Earlier in his career he was co-founder and CEO of SupplierMarket, a leading internet supply chain software provider.
- Jorge Paulo Lemann
Jorge Paulo Lemann (born in 1939) is the second wealthiest individual in Brazil (ranked number 200 in the world) with an estimated self made fortune of USD$ 3.4 billion in 2006. Jorge Paulo Lemann was born in Brazil during 1939 to Swiss immigrants. He received his Bachelors degree from Harvard University in 1961 (he would later receive his MBA from Harvard Business School) and in 1971 he and three partners founded the Brazilian investment banking firm Banco Garantia.
- Donna Dubinsky
Donna Dubinsky, president and CEO of Handspring, Inc. and former president of Palm Computing, speaks about her career. Topics include: early...