Professor Roberto M. Fernandez, M.I.T. Sloan School of Management

Roberto M. Fernandez is the William F. Pounds Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences at MIT Sloan, where he currently serves as the Director of the School’s Behavioral and Policy Sciences Department, which includes the School’s leadership, strategy and entrepreneurship programs. In addition, he is Co-Director of MIT Sloan’s new PhD program in economic sociology. His executive teaching duties include the management of innovation, change management, management of human resources, negotiations, networks, and power and politics in organizations. In addition, Professor Fernandez is the chief professor in charge of MIT Sloan’s required MBA course on Organizational Processes. He has traveled extensively, managing MBA student trips to Brazil, Iceland and South Africa, and has done executive education in Singapore, Hong Kong, and the UAE. Read full biography>>>

Professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Harvard Business School

Ramon Casadesus-Masanell joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 2000. He is renowned as a dynamic teacher and has taught the required MBA Strategy course, an elective course of Competitive Dynamics, Ph.D. courses on Strategy and Game Theory, and a range of Executive Education programs for leading companies worldwide. Professor Casadesus-Masanell received his Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Strategy from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. He received his BA in Economics from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain. Read full biography>>>

Professor D. Quinn Mills, Harvard Business School

D. Quinn Mills is the Alfred J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He consults major corporations and teaches leadership, strategy, marketing and financial investments at the Harvard Business School. Professor Mills earned his MA and Ph.D. from Harvard, both in economics, and began teaching at Harvard Business School in 1976. Read full biography>>>

Professor Donald Rosenfield, M.I.T. Sloan School of Management

Donald Rosenfield is a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, and is Director of the Leaders for Manufacturing Fellows Program (a dual degree Master’s program run by the School of Management and the School of Engineering in partnership with leading global corporations). He is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities in Manufacturing Operations Strategy and Supply Chain Management.
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Professor Peter Cappelli, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at The Wharton School and Director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA, served as Senior Advisor to the Kingdom of Bahrain for Employment Policy from 2003-2005, and from 2007 is a Distinguished Scholar of the Ministry of Manpower for Singapore. He is an acclaimed author, renowned human capital though leader, and a true innovator in talent management. He is the recipient of over 10 teaching and research awards as a professor at Wharton, Berkley and MIT. Read full biography>>>

Professor Richard F. Keevey, Director, Policy Research Institute for the Region, Princeton University

Professor Keevey is the Director of the Policy Research Institute at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University and a member of the faculty.
Professor Keevey’s government experience includes:

• The Chief Financial Officer for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which was a political appointment under President Bill Clinton. He was responsible for all financial management issues, including budgeting, system integration and financial reporting.
• The Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Financial Management where he was responsible for department-wide financial management policy.
• The Director of the Defense Finance and Accounting Agency at the Department of Defense (DOD), where he was the CEO for the world’s largest finance organization.

Haroon Ullah, Harvard University & S.A.B. Senior Negotiation Consultant

Haroon Ullah is on the Faculty at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he is a fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs through the Dubai Initiative. He is the S.A.B. Negotiation Group's lead negotiation consultant and trainer, and MindSight’s primary Middle East negotiations specialist. He is particularly adept at cross-cultural negotiations and issues of leadership and management, and he brings relevant experience from teaching and consulting large companies in the manufacturing, financial services and other key industries. Read full biography>>>

Donata Conrad, Managing Director of Contrium Academy

Donata Conrad spent several years with Bain & Company and McKinsey & Company before becoming CEO of Contrium Academy. Through Contrium Academy, which she has recently taken over, Donata imparts the critical professional skills of structured thinking and strategic communications to clients worldwide. Read full biography>>>