Kate Ludeman and Eddie Erlandson, authors of "Alpha Male Syndrome." Also: Judith Ross on using trust as a strategic management tool.

Paul Hemp, HBR senior editor and author of the article "Avatar-Based Marketing."

David Garvin, Harvard Business School professor. Also: Judith Ross on retaining your top performers during times of change.

Chip Heath, Stanford Graduate School of Business professor and coauthor of "Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die."

Duncan Watts, professor of sociology at Columbia University.

Tammy Erickson, McKinsey Award-winning author.

John Boudreau, USC Marshall School of Business professor and coauthor of "Beyond HR: The New Science of Human Capital."

Noel Capon, Columbia Business School professor and author of "The Marketing Mavens."

Noel Tichy, University of Michigan Business School professor and coauthor of "Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls."

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

Behnam Tabrizi, consulting professor at Stanford University and author of "Rapid Transformation: A 90-day Plan for Fast and Effective Change."

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

Ron Ashkenas, managing partner of Robert H. Schaffer & Associates and author of the HBR article "Simplicity-Minded Management."

Bill Taylor, cofounder of Fast Company magazine and coauthor of "Mavericks at Work."

Tom DeLong, Harvard Business School professor.

John Boudreau, USC Marshall School of Business professor and coauthor of "Beyond HR: The New Science of Human Capital."

Tammy Erickson, McKinsey Award-winning author.

Peter Cappelli, Wharton School professor and author of the HBR article "Talent Management for the Twenty-First Century."

Tom Davenport, Babson College professor and coauthor of the HBR article "Reverse Engineering Google's Innovation Machine."

Rakesh Khurana, Harvard Business School professor.

Walter Kiechel, former managing editor at Fortune magazine.

Peter Ubel, physician and behavioral scientist at the University of Michigan and author of "Free Market Madness."

Barbara Kellerman, lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of "Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders."

Sydney Finkelstein, Tuck School of Business professor and author of "Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes."

Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist and op-ed columnist for The New York Times.

Paul Osterman, professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of "The Truth About Middle Managers."

Ron Heifetz, founder of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and coauthor of "The Practice of Adaptive Leadership."

Paul Hemp, HBR contributing editor and author of the HBR article "Death by Information Overload."

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

Bill Sahlman, Harvard Business School professor and Senior Associate Dean for External Relations.

Leslie Perlow, Harvard Business School professor and coauthor of the HBR article "Making Time Off Predictable--and Required."

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

Julia Kirby, HBR editor at large.

Michael Schrage, research fellow at MIT Sloan School's Center for Digital Business and author of "Serious Play."

Susan Cantrell, fellow at the Accenture Institute for High Performance and coauthor of "Workforce of One: Revolutionizing Talent Management Through Customization."

Tony Schwartz, president and CEO of The Energy Project and author of "The Way We're Working Isn't Working."

Jeff Cruikshank, coauthor of "The Man Who Sold America: The Amazing (but True!) Story of Albert D. Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century."

Peter Cappelli, Wharton School professor and coauthor of "Managing the Older Worker: How to Prepare for the New Organizational Order."

Beth Comstock, chief marketing officer of General Electric and coauthor of the HBR article "Unleashing the Power of Marketing."

Adm. Thad Allen, USCG (Ret.)

Don Tapscott, chairman of nGenera Insight and coauthor of "Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World."

Frank Flynn, Stanford Business School professor and subject of the HBR article "Guilt-Ridden People Make Great Leaders."

Andrew Waldeck, partner at Innosight and coauthor of the HBR article "The New M&A Playbook."

Bernd Vogel, assistant professor of leadership and organizational behavior at the Henley Business School and coauthor of "Fully Charged."

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

Jonah Keri, sports and stock market writer; author of "The Extra 2%."

Bob Pozen, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and author of the HBR article "Extreme Productivity."

Pankaj Ghemawat, IESE Business School professor and author of "World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It."

Anita Woolley, assistant professor of organizational behavior and theory at Carnegie Mellon University and coauthor of the HBR article "What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women."

Stefano Puntoni, professor at the Rotterdam School of Management and author of the HBR article "The Color Pink Is Bad for Fighting Breast Cancer."