Maxwell Wessel, fellow at the Forum for Growth and Innovation and coauthor of the HBR article "Surviving Disruption."

Gautam Mukunda, Harvard Business School assistant professor and author of "Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter."

James Allworth, regular contributor to HBR and coauthor of the Nieman Reports article "Breaking News: Mastering the Art of Disruptive Innovation in Journalism."

Tom and David Kelley, leaders of IDEO and authors of the forthcoming HBR article "Reclaim Your Creative Confidence."

Nancy Koehn, Harvard Business School historian and editor of "The Story of American Business."

Jodi Glickman, founder of the communication training firm Great on the Job and contributor to the "HBR Guide to Getting a Job."

Gary Pisano, Harvard Business School professor and coauthor of "Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance."

Nate Silver, statistician and founder of The New York Times political blog FiveThirtyEight.com.

Kevin Boudreau, London Business School professor.

Dorie Clark, strategy consultant and author of the HBR article "A Campaign Strategy for Your Career."

Michael Silverstein, cofounder of The Boston Consulting Group's global consumer practice and coauthor of "The $10 Trillion Prize."

Tom Ricks, journalist and author of the HBR article "What Ever Happened to Accountability?"

Nilofer Merchant, author of "11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era."

Russ Feingold, former US senator from Wisconsin and founder of Progressives United.

Frank Barrett, jazz pianist and author of "Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz."

Cassie Mogilner, assistant professor of marketing at the Wharton School and author of the HBR article "You'll Feel Less Rushed If You Give Time Away."

Frank Partnoy, professor of law and finance at the University of San Diego and author of "Wait: The Art and Science of Delay."

Dan McGinn, HBR senior editor and author of the article "Too Many Pivots, Too Little Passion."

Matt Dixon, director at Corporate Executive Board and coauthor of the HBR article "The End of Solutions Sales."

Sally Ride, former NASA astronaut and founder of Sally Ride Science.

Susan Cain, author of "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking."

Andrew Zolli, director of PopTech and coauthor of "Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back."

Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind, authors of "Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations."

Sallie Krawcheck, former president of Bank of America Global Wealth & Investment Management and author of the HBR article "Four Ways to Fix Banks."

Don Thompson, economist and author of "Oracles: How Prediction Markets Turn Employees into Visionaries."

Michael Schrage, research fellow at MIT Sloan School's Center for Digital Business and author of the HBR Single "Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become?"

Charles Duhigg, reporter for The New York Times and author of "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business."

Grant McCracken, anthropologist and author of "Culturematic: How Reality TV, John Cheever, a Pie Lab, Julia Child, Fantasy Football . . . Will Help You Create and Execute Breakthrough Ideas."

Marcus Buckingham, founder of TMBC and author of "StandOut."

Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever.

Daniel Gross, columnist and economics editor for Yahoo! Finance and author of "Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline . . . and the Rise of a New Economy."

Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and author of "Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World."

Doc Searls, alumnus fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and author of "The Intention Economy."

Ken Favaro, senior partner at Booz & Company and coauthor of the HBR article "Creating an Organic Growth Machine."

Christiane Amanpour, renowned war correspondent and news anchor.

Charlotte Fritz, assistant professor at Portland State University.

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO of the consultancy 20-first and author of "How Women Mean Business."

Tom Davenport, Babson College professor and coauthor of "Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right."

Chris Zook, partner at Bain & Company and co-head of the firm's global strategy practice.

John Lees, career strategist and author of "How to Get a Job You'll Love."

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor and author of the HBR article "Enriching the Ecosystem."

Mihir Desai, Harvard Business School professor and author of the HBR article "The Incentive Bubble."

Tiziana Casciaro and Lotte Bailyn discuss the HBR case study "When to Make Private News Public."

Andy O'Connell and Scott Berinato, editors of the Idea Watch section of HBR and The Daily Stat.

Frances Frei and Anne Morriss, authors of "Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend, New York Times best-selling author, and filmmaker.

Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft, co-directors of the Environments Collaborative at the Stanford University d.school and authors of "Make Space."

Carol Dweck, professor at Stanford University and author of "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success."

Peter Bregman, author of "18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done."

Stephanie Coontz, professor of history at The Evergreen State College and author of "A Strange Stirring."