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Dr. Atul Gawande, surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and author of "The Checklist Manifesto."

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."

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."

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

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."

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.

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

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

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.

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."

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

Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford Business School professor and author of the HBR article "Power Play."

Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks.

Bob Sutton, Stanford University professor and author of "The No Asshole Rule."

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."

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."

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."

Adm. Thad Allen, USCG (Ret.)

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

Leslie Gaines-Ross, chief reputation strategist at Weber Shandwick and author of the HBR article "Reputation Warfare."

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?"

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

Rita McGrath, Columbia Business School professor and coauthor of "Discovery-Driven Growth."

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

Anne Habiby and Deirdre Coyle, cofounders of the AllWorld Network and authors of the HBR article "The High-Intensity Entrepreneur."

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John Donahoe, CEO of eBay.

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

Saul Berman, vice president and global lead partner for Strategy Consulting at IBM Global Business Services and author of "Not for Free."

Paul Leinwand, partner in Booz & Company's global consumer, media, and retail practice; coauthor of "The Essential Advantage."

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