Annie McKee, managing director of the Teleos Leadership Institute and coauthor of "Resonant Leadership."

Alyson Slater, director of strategy for the Global Reporting Initiative.

Gill Corkindale, executive coach and former management editor of the Financial Times.

Stewart Friedman, Wharton School professor and author of "Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life."

Rohit Deshpande, Harvard Business School professor.

Adam Werbach, global CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi S and author of "Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto."

Scott Anthony, president of Innosight.

Colonel Tom Kolditz, professor and head of the department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Paul Levy, president and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Roberto Verganti, professor of management of innovation at Politecnico di Milano and author of "Design Driven Innovation."

Stewart Friedman, Wharton School professor and author of "Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life."

Umair Haque, director of the Havas Media Lab.

Dr. Atul Gawande, surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and author of "The Checklist Manifesto."

Justin Fox, editorial director of the HBR Group and author of "The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street."

Richard Pascale, associate fellow of Said Business School at Oxford University and coauthor of "The Power of Positive Deviance."

Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford Business School professor and author of the HBR article "Power Play."

Matthew Dixon, managing director of the Corporate Executive Board's Sales and Service Practice.

Dr. Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author of "The Mind's Eye."

Larry Kramer, founder of MarketWatch, Inc., and author of "C-Scape: Conquer the Forces Changing Business Today."

Susanne Bruckmüller, research associate at the Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and coauthor of the HBR article "How Women End Up on the 'Glass Cliff'."

Michael E. Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor and coauthor of the HBR article "Creating Shared Value."

Martin Seligman, director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the HBR article "Building Resilience."

Muhtar Kent, CEO of Coca-Cola.

Scott Berinato, HBR senior editor, featuring the ideas of Yale economist Robert Shiller, journalist Gregg Easterbrook, and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman.

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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

John Mackey, co-CEO of Whole Foods Market and coauthor of "Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business."

Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and author of "Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature."

Scott Barry Kaufman, adjunct assistant professor of psychology at New York University and author of "Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined."

Karen Dillon, author of the "HBR Guide to Office Politics," talks with Dorie Clark, author of "Reinventing You."

Erica Ariel Fox, who teaches negotiation at Harvard Law School, discusses how to resolve inner conflict to lead wisely and live well.

Francesca Gino and Adam Grant, of Harvard Business School and Wharton, respectively, discuss their research on gratitude and generosity.

Paul Oyer, Stanford economist and the author of "Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Economics I Learned from Online Dating," explains the marketplace of online love.

The founder of the Khan Academy talks with HBR senior editor Alison Beard.

Stewart D. Friedman, Wharton professor and author of "Baby Bust," presents new research.

Walter Frick, HBR editor, explains why we valorize tech heroes from the past, but scoff at today's entrepreneurs.

AnnaLee Saxenian, author of the classic book "Regional Advantage," still thinks the area's future is bright.

Erin Reid of Boston University on why men (but not women) feign long working hours.

Mark Goulston, psychiatrist and author of "Just Listen," explains how.

Evan Loomis and Evan Baehr, coauthors of "Get Backed," on how to win someone over with PowerPoint.

Amy Gallo, author of the "HBR Guide to Managing Conflict at Work," explains the options.

In every issue, we feature a conversation with someone who's been wildly successful outside the traditional business world. This time, it's an astrophysicist.

Iconic relationship expert Dr. Ruth discusses what she's learned over a long career.

Managers play a huge role in their employees' personal lives, which in turn affects productivity, morale, and turnover at work. Professor Scott Behson, author of "The Working Dad's Survival Guide," and professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, gives practical tips for being a leader who is flexible, fair, and effective.

Leslie John, Harvard Business School professor, explains why you shouldn't waste time trying to detect your counterpart's lies; instead, use tactics drawn from psychology to get them to divulge the truth. She's the author of the HBR article "How to Negotiate with a Liar."