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

Heike Bruch, professor of leadership at the University of St. Gallen and coauthor of the HBR article "The Acceleration Trap."

Jean Martin and Conrad Schmidt, executive directors of the Corporate Executive Board's Corporate Learning Council based in Washington, DC.

Gregory Berns, the Distinguished Chair of Neuroeconomics at Emory University and author of "Iconoclast."

Oded Shenkar, professor at Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business and author of "Copycats."

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

Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks.

Amar Bhidé, professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School and author of "A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy."

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."

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."

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

Ricky Gervais, creator of the hit television series "The Office."

Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and author of "Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other."

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."

Maggie Craddock, author of "Power Genes: Understanding Your Power Persona--and How to Wield It at Work."

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

Morten Hansen, professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and author of "Collaboration."

Dan McGinn and Scott Berinato, HBR senior editors.

Rob Cross, associate professor at the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce and coauthor of the HBR article "A Smarter Way to Network."

Rafi Mohammed, pricing strategy consultant and author of "The 1% Windfall: How Successful Companies Use Price to Profit and Grow."

Robert Kaplan, Harvard Business School professor and author of "What to Ask the Person in the Mirror."

Francis Ford Coppola, acclaimed film director.

Douglas Conant, former CEO of Campbell's Soup Company.

Cathy Davidson, Duke University professor and author of "Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn."

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

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

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

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

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

Charlotte Fritz, assistant professor at Portland State University.

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

Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever.

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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

Christine Porath, associate professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business and coauthor of the HBR article "The Price of Incivility."

Elizabeth Grace Saunders, founder and CEO of Real Life E and author of "The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment."

Russell Sanna, executive director of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Thomas Mooney, co-owner and CEO of House Spirits Distillery.

Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen, coauthors of the HBR article "Make Time for the Work that Matters."