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

Bronwyn Fryer, HBR senior editor and author of the case study "The Layoff."

John Quelch, Harvard Business School professor and coauthor of the HBR article "How to Market in a Downturn."

Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, senior adviser at Egon Zehnder International and coauthor of the HBR article "The Definitive Guide to Recruiting in Good Times and Bad."

Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka.

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

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."

Dave Ulrich, cofounder of the RBL Group and coauthor of "The Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead By."

Niall Ferguson, professor of history at Harvard University and professor of business administration at Harvard Business School.

Richard Bohmer, physician, Harvard Business School professor, and author of "Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care."

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

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."

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

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."

Gareth Jones, fellow of the Centre for Management Development at London Business School and coauthor of "Clever."

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."

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

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."

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."

Umair Haque, director of the Havas Media Lab.

Tammy Erickson, author of "What's Next, Gen X?: Keeping Up, Moving Ahead, and Getting the Career You Want."

Herminia Ibarra, professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD and coauthor of the HBR article "The Best-Performing CEOs in the World."

Julia Kirby, HBR editor at large.

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."

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

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

Dr. Thomas Lee, network president of Partners HealthCare System and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Alexandra Samuel, director of the Social + Interactive Media Centre at Emily Carr University.

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

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

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

Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks.

Cathleen Benko, vice chairman and chief talent officer for Deloitte LLP and coauthor of "The Corporate Lattice."

Monika Hamori, professor at IE Business School in Madrid and author of the HBR article "Job-Hopping to the Top and Other Career Fallacies."

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

Warren Bennis, professor at the University of Southern California and author of "Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership."

Scott Berinato and Andy O'Connell, editors of the Idea Watch section of Harvard Business Review.

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."

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

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

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

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

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