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

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

Vijay Govindarajan, director of the Center for Global Leadership at the Tuck School of Business and coauthor of the HBR article "How GE Is Disrupting Itself."

William Eggers, global research director at Deloitte and coauthor of "If We Can Put a Man on the Moon."

Tom Davenport, Babson College professor and coauthor of "Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results."

Nathan Myhrvold, CEO of Intellectual Ventures and author of the HBR article "Funding Eureka."

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."

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

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

Daniel Isenberg, professor of management practice at Babson College and author of the HBR article "The Big Idea: How to Start an Entrepreneurial Revolution."

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

Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks.

Herminia Ibarra, professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD and coauthor of the HBR article "Why Men Still Get More Promotions Than Women."

Steve New, head of degree programs at Oxford University's Said Business School and author of the HBR article "The Transparent Supply Chain."

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

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

Thomas Hout, visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong's School of Business and coauthor of the HBR article "China vs the World: Whose Technology Is It?"

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

Paul Nunes, executive director of research at the Accenture Institute for High Performance and coauthor of "Jumping the S-Curve."

John Donahoe, CEO of eBay.

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."

Ben Dattner, founder of Dattner Consulting and author of "The Blame Game."

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."

Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef and host of the Travel Channel's "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations."

Tom DeLong, Harvard Business School professor and author of "Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success."

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

Robert Iger, CEO of Disney.

Justin Fox, editorial director of the HBR Group and author of the article "Disrupting Higher Ed."

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

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

Rick Ridgeway, vice president of environmental initiatives at Patagonia.

Muhtar Kent, CEO of Coca-Cola.

Francis Ford Coppola, acclaimed film director.

Michael Beer, Harvard Business School professor and coauthor of "Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value."

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."

Dan Pallotta, president of Advertising for Humanity and author of "Uncharitable."

Umair Haque, director of the Havas Media Labs and author of "Betterness: Economics for Humans."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Christiane Amanpour, renowned war correspondent and news anchor.

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

Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever.

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