- Arik Hesseldahl
Arik Hesseldahl (born in 1970) is an American journalist currently working as a senior technology writer for BusinessWeek, a position he's had since 2005. He is the host of the weekly video podcast "Tech 101." He also writes the column "Byte Of The Apple," which focuses on Apple Inc. which has been a regular feature on BusinessWeek's Web site since 2000. He also contributes to BusinessWeek's "Byte Of the Apple" blog with Peter Burrows and Cliff Edwards.
- Al Ries
Al Ries is a marketing professional and author. He is also the co-founder and chairman of the Atlanta-based consulting firm Ries & Ries with his partner and daughter, Laura Ries. Along with Jack Trout, Ries coined the term "positioning", as related to the field of marketing, and authored "Positioning: The Battle For Your Mind", an industry standard on the subject.
- Caterina Fake
What she does: The co-founder of Flickr (now owned by Yahoo), Fake was one of the pioneers of the site-based photo sharing model. Before Flickr, sharing photographs meant sending them piecemeal as email attachments. The site is now widely used as a photo repository by individuals and companies alike. How she got there: Fake graduated with a BA in English from Vassar.
- Andrew Baron
Andrew Michael Baron, born 1970, is the co-creator of Rocketboom. On August 19, 2005, Baron was interviewed on "CBS Evening News". In an "Eye on America" segment CBS veteran Jim Axelrod commented on the effort at daily news coverage on a limited budget and Baron's grasp of the next Internet wave. "You know what they call that? Vision." Baron directed a portion of "Killer," an episode of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" which aired February 2, 2006.
- Dave Lindorff
Dave Lindorff (born 1949) is an investigative reporter, columnist for CounterPunch, and contributor to Businessweek, The Nation, Extra! and Salon.com magazine. He is a 2004 winner of a Project Censored award. Lindorff graduated from Wesleyan University in 1972 with a BA in Chinese language. He the received an MS in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1975. A two-time Fulbright Scholar (Shanghai, 1991 and Taiwan, 1994), …
- Michael Simmons
Michael Simmons is the author of the bestselling book,"The Student Success Manifesto: How to Create a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Prosperity". Simmons, along with wife Sheena Lindahl, founded Extreme Entrepreneurship Education, LLC, while attending NYU in 2003. The pair have been named among BusinessWeek's "Best Entrepreneurs Under 25" in 2006. Simmons and Lindahl are the co-founders of Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour (EET), …
- Jason Pontin
Jason Pontin (born May 11, 1967) is an editor, journalist and publisher. Pontin is the editor in chief and publisher of "Technology Review", an independent publication owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that describes emerging technologies and analyses their impact. He was hired as the editor of "Technology Review" in July 2004, and in August of 2005 was also named publisher.
- Chung Mong-Koo
Chung Mong-koo (b. March 19 1938 in Seoul) is the chairman of Hyundai Motor Group. He graduated from Hanyang University in 1967. In 1999, he took over as head of Hyundai, succeeding his father and founder Chung Ju-yung. In 2000, he attracted widespread attention when he defied his father Chung Ju-yung's order to step down. He was named by BusinessWeek as one of the top managers for 2004.
- 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.
- Malcolm Muir
Malcolm Muir (1885 - 1979) was a U.S. magazine industrialist. He served as president of McGraw-Hill Publishing from 1928 to 1937. During his tenure as president, he helped create "BusinessWeek" magazine in 1929, the same year that McGraw-Hill stock was publicly traded for the first time. He also served as the editor-in-chief and president of "Newsweek" magazine between 1937 and 1959.
- Stacy Blackman
Stacy Sukov Blackman, born in 1971, has been consulting on the Master of Business Administration degree application process since 2001. She has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Stacy has worked with the admissions committees at both schools, conducting alumni interviews and evaluating applicants.
- Jeffrey Garten
Jeffrey E. Garten is former dean of the Yale School of Management. Formerly undersecretary of commerce for international trade in the first Clinton Administration, he also held senior economic posts in the Ford and Carter administrations. From 1979 - 1992, he was a managing director first at Lehman Brothers, where he oversaw the firm's Asian investment banking activities from Tokyo, and then at the Blackstone Group.
- Julie Tilsner
Julie Tilsner is an American author of humor books dealing with themes of women's experiences, children, and family. Her books have been published by McGraw-Hill, Bantam Books, NTC Publishing Group, and Ten Speed Press. Tilsner is also a journalist, and was on the staff of "BusinessWeek". As of 2006, she is a Contributing Editor for "Parenting Magazine".
- Hartmut Esslinger
Hartmut Esslinger (born 1944) is a German industrial designer. At age 30 Esslinger quit the Fachhochschule to focus on real-world design. Through his company frogdesign (later renamed frog design), one of his first major successes was the design for the Sony Trinitron television for Wega. In 1981 he was hired by Apple Computer to design several new product lines, including the Macintosh computer and the Apple IIc.
- Brian Alvey
Brian Alvey along with Jason Calacanis co-founded the publishing company Weblogs, Inc., home to such blogs as Engadget, Autoblog, Joystiq, TV Squad Cinematical and Slashfood. Time Warner's America Online purchased Weblogs, Inc. in October 2005. In November 2006, AOL also purchased the blogging platform Blogsmith which Alvey built. Blogsmith is used to power Weblogs, Inc. and other AOL blogs such as TMZ.com.
- Alex Beam
Alex Beam (born 1954) is an American writer and journalist, currently a columnist for "The Boston Globe". Beam grew up in Washington, D.C., as his father Jacob D. Beam was a diplomat. Beam graduated from Yale University in 1975. Beam worked at "Newsweek" and "BusinessWeek", where his tenure included Boston and Moscow bureau chief, before joining the "Boston Globe". His twice-weekly column for the "Globe" has appeared since 1987.
- Nick Yee
Nick Yee is an American researcher who studies self-representation and social interaction in virtual environments. The Daedalus Project, his research into the psychology and sociology of MMORPGs, has collected survey data from over 40,000 game players. The research that has resulted from these interviews has been cited extensively by game scholars, game developers, and popular media. Yee's research has appeared in "The New York Times", …
- Saul Steinberg
Saul Phillip Steinberg (born Brooklyn, August 1939) is a Jewish American businessman who first became wealthy in the 1960s by leasing IBM computers. He proved so creative at the practice that his company, Leasco, became valuable enough that in 1968 he could use its stock to buy Reliance Insurance, a 150-year-old Philadelphia firm. He was just 29 years old. At the time, Forbes reported that he made more money on his own that year than anyone in America under 30.
- Edwin Black
Edwin Black is an American author and journalist. He has written fifty-six book editions in fourteen languages in sixty-one countries, and published numerous newspaper and magazine articles throughout the United States, Europe and Israel. Black's second nonfiction book was IBM and the Holocaust which in February 2001 was published simultaneously in 40 nations in 9 languages and is now sold in 60 nations in 13 languages.
- 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.
- Anthony Marx
Anthony W. Marx (born 1959) is the current president of Amherst College, in Amherst, Massachusetts. He was inaugurated on October 26, 2003. Prior to assuming the post, Marx was Professor and Director of undergraduate studies of Political Science at Columbia University. He is an alumnus of the Bronx High School of Science after which he attended Wesleyan University and Yale University; in 1981 he received a B.S. "magna cum laude" from Yale.
- Victor Fung
Dr Victor Kwok-king Fung (born 1945) is the Group Chairman of Li & Fung group of companies, also the current Chairman of the Airport Authority Hong Kong - the agency responsible for running Hong Kong's Chep Lap Kok International Airport, the Hong Kong University Council and the Greater Pearl River Delta Business Council. Dr Fung is the Chairman of the Hong Kong-Japan Business Co-operation Committee and Co-Chair of the Swiss-based Evian Group.
- William W. George
William W. George is a professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, former Executive-in-Residence at the Yale School of Management, and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Medtronic. He is the author of the 2003 book, "Authentic Leadership" which was a BusinessWeek best-seller and the 2007 release, "True North" released by Jossey-Bass.
- Steve Appleton
Steve Appleton (born 1960) is the CEO of Micron Technology, based in Boise, Idaho. He was a nationally ranked tennis player while studying at Boise State University. A 1996 BusinessWeek article says Appleton broke his right wrist - and quickly learned how to play using his left hand. Appleton started at Micron immediately after graduation in 1982 - working the graveyard shift in production.
- John Calamos
John Calamos born 1943 is a self made money manager and investor. With an estimated current net worth of around $2.7 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 258-richest person in the world He is the son of Greek immigrants. As a young man he swept floors at family's Chicago grocery store. During his teenage years he developed a passion for the stock market and invested parents' $5,000 nest egg for a first taste of profit.
- Avinash Persaud
Avinash Persaud is Chairman of Intelligence Capital Ltd, a company specializing in analyzing, managing and creating financial liquidity in investment projects and portfolios. He was Managing Director and Global Head of Research at State Street Bank, the world's largest institutional investor, (1999-2003) and Global Head of Currency and Commodity Research at J.P. Morgan & Co.(1993-1999).
- Francis Yeoh
Tan Sri Dato' Francis Yeoh Sock Ping <small>CBE</small> (Chinese : 楊肅斌; pinyin: Yáng Sùbīn, born August 23 1954) is a prominent business personality in Malaysia. He obtained a Bachelor of Science (Hons.) Degree in Civil Engineering from Kingston University, United Kingdom in 1978. Francis had his secondary school education at Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He became the Managing Director of YTL Corporation Bhd Group in 1988.
- Ira A. Fulton
Ira A. Fulton is an Arizona philanthropist, land developer, and businessman. BusinessWeek has listed Fulton 36th on its list of "The 50 Most Generous Philanthropists" for 2006. The Arizona Legislature has also recognized his generosity. According to BusinessWeek, Fulton and his wife have given away about $265 million, approximately 60% of their net worth. Major recipients include Arizona State University (ASU), Brigham Young University (BYU), the University of Utah, …
- Hu Shuli
Hu Shuli is managing editor of China's business and finance magazine, "Caijing". She is a former Chief reporter for the "China Business Times". She has been working on covering news events and providing analysis on world and China economic issues for 15 years. She graduated in journalism in 1982 from the People's University of China. Before "Caijing", Ms. Hu was working as assistant editor, …
- Mark Ritchie
Mark Andrew Ritchie is a Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange commodities trader. A twenty- year veteran of the financial industry, Mark is one of the original founding partners of "Chicago Reasearch and Trading (CRT)" (the other his brother Joe Ritchie) once the largest options firm in the industry. He is also the author of two books, "God in the Pits" and "Spirit of the Rainforest".
- Larry Hite
Lawrence D. Hite is a hedge fund manager commodities trader, who along with Ed Seykota is one of the forefathers of system trading. Profiled and recognized as one of the best in the industry, in major international publications like in BusinessWeek's annual the "Best of Award", Larry was name "Best of 1986".
- Samer Takriti
Samer Takriti is a Syrian management scientist. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Michigan. An expert in energy markets, he worked for Enron in 1999-2000. He has also been a senior manager in the Mathematical Sciences Department at IBM Research. The initiatives of this department were reported on in a "BusinessWeek" cover story..
- James A. Champy
James A. Champy is one of the founders of the management theory behind Business process reengineering (BPR), and proponent of a process oriented view of business management. "Re-engineering the corporation: A manifesto for business revolution", the book written by him in 1993 along with Michael Hammer was instrumental in capturing the focus of the business community towards BPR.
- Raymond W. Smith
Raymond W. Smith is the Chairman of Rothschild Inc., and the Chairman of Arlington Capital Partners. He holds a B.S. degree from Carnegie-Mellon University and an M.B.A degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He has been awarded honorary degrees from Temple University, New York University, Drexel and Stephens Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Arlington and Rothschild, Ray was Chairman of Verizon, then Bell Atlantic, …
- Ron Motley
Ronald L. Motley is a noted American trial attorney, and a principal of Motley Rice, LLC, a Mount Pleasant, South Carolina-based law firm focusing on plaintiff's litigation involving occupational disease (mesothelioma), plane crashes, securities and consumer fraud.
- Ivan Glasenberg
Ivan Glasenberg, (born 1957 in South Africa) has been the CEO of Glencore, one of the word's largest commodity trading companies, since 2002. He is also, as of 2006, a member of the board of Xstrata plc and a director of Minara Resources Ltd. Before joining Glencore, he was with Levitt Kirson Chartered Accountants for five years. In 2005, BusinessWeek referred to Glasenberg as a key figure ("lieutenant") in the secretive oil-trading inner circle of Marc Rich, …
- Luke Skurman
Luke Skurman (born 1980) is the American Chief Executive Officer and founder of College Prowler, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based publishing company of college guidebooks and collegeprowler.com, one of the fastest growing websites in its industry. Born and raised in San Francisco, California, he holds a B.S. and a M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been featured in Inc.
- Joe Ritchie
Joseph Ritchie (born 1946) is a commodities and options trader, the founder of "Chicago Research and Trading", whose capital went up from $200,000 to over $225 million in 11 years. According to BusinessWeek, "Ritchie is widely acknowledged to be one of the sharpest minds in the options business". As an avid aircraft owner/operator, Joe Ritchie and his personal friend and mentor, record-setting balloonist Steve Fossett, …
- Verne Winchell
Verne H. Winchell (October 15, 1915 - November 26, 2002) was the founder of Winchell's Donuts. On October 8, 1948 he opened his first donut shop in Temple City, California and earned the nickname "The Donut King" while making a fortune with a chain of Winchell's-branded donut shops in the western United States during the 1940s and 1950s. He sold his interest in the company for $600 million in 1984 and became chairman of Denny's Restaurants for several years.
- Dick Hardt
Dick Hardt (May 28, 1963) is the founder and CEO of Sxip Identity. He is an advocate of Identity 2.0. Hardt has spoken at tech events such as Web 2.0, Supernova, Digital ID World, ETech, OSCON, Anti-Phishing Working Group, at New Yo