Dick Beatty, professor of human resource management at Rutgers University and coauthor of "The Differentiated Workforce."

Bob Sutton, professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University and author of the HBR article "How to Be a Good Boss in a Bad Economy."

Ira Kay and Anne Sheehan, executive compensation debaters.

David Silverman, author of "Typo: The Last American Typesetter or How I Made and Lost 4 Million Dollars."

Darrell Rigby, partner at Bain & Company and author of "Winning in Turbulence."

Sylvia Ann Hewlett, founding president of the Center for Work-Life Policy and coauthor of the HBR article "How Gen Y and Boomers Will Reshape Your Agenda."

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."

Cesare Mainardi, managing director of Booz & Company and coauthor of "Cut Costs, Grow Stronger."

John Baldoni, leadership consultant and author of "Lead Your Boss: The Subtle Art of Managing Up."

Dr. Robert Blendon, professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management and author of "The Design of Business."

Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at MIT's Center for Digital Business and author of "Enterprise 2.0."

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

Anna Bernasek, financial journalist and author of "The Economics of Integrity."

Walter Kiechel, former managing editor at Fortune magazine and author of "The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World."

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

Mansour Javidan, dean of research at the Thunderbird School of Global Management and coauthor of the HBR article "Making It Overseas."

Gregory Unruh, director and professor of the Lincoln Center for Ethics in Global Management at the Thunderbird School.

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

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

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

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."

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

Josh Bernoff, senior vice president of idea development at Forrester Research and coauthor of "Empowered."

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

Tom Davenport, Babson College professor and coauthor of the HBR article "Competing on Talent Analytics."

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."

Dan McGinn and Scott Berinato, HBR editors.

Shawn Achor, CEO of Aspirant and author of "The Happiness Advantage."

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

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.

Zakary Tormala, associate professor of marketing at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

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."

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

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

Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Civic Ventures and author of "The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife."

David Bryce, professor of strategy at Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management and coauthor of the HBR article "Competing Against Free."

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."

Robert Iger, CEO of Disney.

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

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