Pankaj Ghemawat is the Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business School at the University of Navarra. Professor Ghemawat earned his A.B. degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and his Ph.D in Business Economics from Harvard University. He then worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company in London before joining the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty in 1983. In 1991, he was appointed the youngest full professor in HBS’s history. He joined the IESE faculty in 2006. Pankaj Ghemawat’s current teaching and research focus on globalization and strategy. His “Regional Strategies for Global Leadership” received the McKinsey Award for the best article published in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) in 2005.

Yves Doz is the Solvay Chaired Professor at INSEAD and a Professor of Strategic Management. He has researched and published widely on the strategy and organisation of multinational companies. His books include The Multinational Mission, with C.K. Prahalad, From Global to Metanational, with Jose Santos and Peter Williamson, Fast Strategy, with Mikko Kosonen, and most recently Managing Global Innovation, with Keeley Wilson. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, of the Academy of International Business and of the Strategic Management Society.

CK Prahalad was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Strategy, Ross School of Business, The University of Michigan. He graduated with a B.Sc. from Loyola College in 1960 and received his Doctor of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1975. CK Prahalad published numerous prize-winning books and articles, the most notable being "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profit." This publication had a significant influence on public policy in developing countries and strategies of both incumbent firms and entrepreneurial start-ups. His work reached across boundaries and expanded possibilities, impacting academics and corporate leaders alike. CK Prahalad was a SMS Fellow, as well as the recipient of the Faculty Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to social and environmental stewardship by the Aspen Institute.

Mark Spelman is an international businessman with considerable knowledge and experience of the global energy and utility markets. He leads Accenture’s Global Strategy practice and runs the company’s global macro economic and political think-tank called the Accenture Institute for High Performance. He is responsible for the firm’s strategic relationship with the World Economic Forum (WEF); he is a regular participant and session leader at Davos and the WEF regional summits and a member of WEF’s Global Advisory Council on Strategic Foresight. At Accenture Mark Spelman has almost two decades of experience working at board level in senior management and business strategy positions. His client work over the past decade has centred on working with boards of major corporations on large-scale transformational change programmes across multiple business units and geographies. He is currently working with a number of multinationals and non for profit organisations on restructuring their global operating models. He is actively involved in Accenture's research programmes – current topics include globalisation, operating models, innovation and energy policy.

Robert J. Thomas is Executive Director of the Accenture Institute for High Performance Business based in Boston, Massachusetts and the John R. Galvin Professor of Leadership at the Fletcher School of International Affairs at Tufts University. He writes, teaches and consults about leadership and transformational change. Robert J. Thomas has published articles on leadership and change in the Harvard Business Review, Harvard Management Update, the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek.com. His first major book, What Machines Can’t Do: Politics and Technology in the Industrial Enterprise, won the 1994 C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. He has been a featured speaker at dozens of corporate and NGO events, including those sponsored by the Harvard Business Review, MIT-Sloan School, Conference Board, Society for Human Resource Management, PBS, McGraw-Hill corporate learning, the Young Presidents Organization and NASA.

Srinivasa Addepalli,Sr. VP - Corporate Strategy & Marketing, is responsible for strategy formulation and execution at Tata Communications, a leading global communications solutions provider. He manages all new strategic initiatives at Tata Communications, including growth plans, entry into new markets and mergers & acquisitions. Srinivasa is also responsible for Corporate Marketing and Communications at Tata Communications, including brand identity and media & analyst relations. He has considerable experience in developing strategies and business plans, particularly in the Indian and other emerging markets. His previous experience includes a business consulting stint with the Tata Strategic Management Group (TSMG), focusing on the telecom and media industries. Subsequently, Srinivasa joined the Tata Group Chairman's Office, with the responsibility for coordinating the various telecom activities within the Tata Group. Srinivasa Addepalli holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, Asia's No. 1 business school. Earlier, he graduated with distinction in Electronics Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Surat.

Stéphane Girod earned a Ph.D. in strategic management in 2008 and a Master of Science in management research in 2003 at the University of Oxford (Said Business School). His research interests lie in organizational design, organizational change, innovation, and strategic renewal in multinational enterprises. His doctoral dissertation explored the relationships between organizational restructuring, modular reconfigurations ("patching") and economic performance in American corporations between 1985 and 2004. At Accenture, he has led the global operating model research study with a particular emphasis on emerging-market multinationals. Stéphane Girod has published in Long Range Planning, the European Management Journal, Outlook and the International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management. He has also co-written several case studies (www.accenture.com/institute). He has lectured or given seminars at Bocconi University, Milan; BI School of Management, Oslo; Instituto de Empresa, Madrid; Indiana University, Bloomington; and Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Toulouse.

Terry Kramer joined Vodafone in January 2005 as Chief of Staff to Vodafone’s Group CEO, and was appointed Group HR Director in 2006. In this role, Terry Kramer was responsible for implementing Vodafone’s People Strategy, advancing talent recruitment and development efforts in key areas including emerging markets and the internet, and the execution of global HR initiatives including pay for performance, development of online HR capabilities and the launch of Inspire, Vodafone’s program for developing its future leaders. In 2008, he was named Vodafone’s Group Strategy and Business Improvement Director. Key efforts included the update of Vodafone’s strategy which identified key mobile internet, mobile and fixed broadband and enterprise revenue growth initiatives as well as accelerated cost reduction. Terry Kramer is also responsible for Vodafone’s venture investing activities. He also leads the governance of Vodafone’s investment in Verizon Wireless and the coordination of Vodafone’s cooperative efforts with Verizon Wireless. Prior to joining Vodafone, Terry Kramer was Chief Executive Officer of Q Comm International, a publicly traded provider of transaction processing services for the telecommunications industry. Terry Kramer also worked for 12 years at PacTel/AirTouch Communications in a variety of roles including President AirTouch Paging, Vice President Human Resources-AirTouch Communications, Vice President Business Development-AirTouch Europe and Vice President & General Manager-AirTouch Cellular Southwest Market. He began his career in marketing at the Harris Corporation and was an Associate with Booz Allen & Hamilton, a management consulting firm. Terry Kramer holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Mark Spelman is an international businessman with considerable knowledge and experience of the global energy and utility markets. He leads Accenture’s Global Strategy practice and runs the company’s global macro economic and political think-tank called the Accenture Institute for High Performance. He is responsible for the firm’s strategic relationship with the World Economic Forum (WEF); he is a regular participant and session leader at Davos and the WEF regional summits and a member of WEF’s Global Advisory Council on Strategic Foresight. At Accenture Mark Spelman has almost two decades of experience working at board level in senior management and business strategy positions. His client work over the past decade has centred on working with boards of major corporations on large-scale transformational change programmes across multiple business units and geographies. He is currently working with a number of multinationals and non for profit organisations on restructuring their global operating models. He is actively involved in Accenture's research programmes – current topics include globalisation, operating models, innovation and energy policy.

Beth Comstock is Chief Marketing Officer and SVP of GE. She leads the company's organic growth and commercial innovation initiatives, and the sales, marketing and communications functions. She is responsible for the GE-wide business platforms ecomagination, devoted to reducing environmental impact with new technology, and healthymagination, focused on achieving sustainable health through innovation by lowering costs, improving quality and reaching more people. In 2003, she was named GE’s first Chief Marketing officer in more than 20 years and as such, helped reinvigorate marketing across the company, introducing ecomagination, Imagination Breakthrough innovations and the “imagination at work” brand campaign. Previously, Beth held a succession of publicity and promotions roles at GE, NBC, CBS and Turner Broadcasting. She began her career in local television production in Virginia.

Vijay Govindarajan is widely regarded as one of the world¹s leading experts on strategy and innovation. He is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He was the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant at General Electric. He worked with GE¹s CEO Jeff Immelt to write How GE Is Disrupting Itself, the Harvard Business Review article that pioneered the concept of reverse innovation, any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world. Harvard Business Review rated reverse innovation as one of the ten big ideas of the past decade. Vijay Govindarajan has worked with CEOs and top management teams in more than 25% of the Fortune 500 firms to discuss, challenge, and escalate their thinking about strategy.

Michael A. Hitt is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Joe B. Foster Chair in Business Leadership at Texas A&M University. He has authored or co-authored many journal articles published in leading journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, among others. Mike Hitt is a Founding Editor of the SEJ, a former editor of the Academy of Management Journal, and former president of the Academy of Management. His involvement in the SMS runs deep with recently serving as the President of the SMS. He is a member of the SMS Fellows and is the former Deputy Dean of this organization. He has received awards from the American Society of Competitiveness for Outstanding Academic Contributions (1996) and Outstanding Intellectual Contributions (1999) to Competitiveness.

Rich Bettis is the Ellison Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business of the University of North Carolina. He has won the SMJ Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper prize and been elected to the Fellows of SMS. He has served on the Academy of Management Board and on the Strategic Management Society Board, where he also served a 3-year term as President. He has been a Consulting Editor of the Academy of Management Review, and an Associate Editor of Management Science. In 1995 he became an SMJ Associate Editor and in 2007 became an SMJ Co-Editor where his term will expire at the end of 2015.

Will Mitchell is Professor of Business Administration in Strategy and the J. Rex Fuqua Professor of International Management at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He is a faculty associate of Duke’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Health Sector Management Program, and Global Health Initiative. Will Mitchell teaches corporate strategy, business dynamics, and health sector strategy in the MBA, MMS, Ph.D., and Executive Education programs at Duke, as well as in partnership programs in Africa and elsewhere. He studies business dynamics, focusing on how businesses in developed and emerging markets change as the competitive environments change and, in turn, how the business changes contribute to ongoing corporate success or failure. Will Mitchell is a former SMS board member, a member of the SMS Fellows Group, a co-editor of SMJ, an editorial board member of several strategy-related journals in North America, Asia, and Europe, and a board member of Neuland Laboratories, Ltd.

Ed Zajac is the James F. Beré Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He is an elected Fellow of both the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society. Ed Zajac's research, teaching, and consulting focuses on strategic change, alliances, and corporate governance. He has been recognized as one of the “most highly cited researchers” worldwide in the Institute of Scientific Information’s yearly list of highly cited researchers (representing less than one-half of one percent of all published researchers). This year he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management, and he was also recently awarded an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Berlin. He served for many years as Co-Editor of the Strategic Management Journal.

John C. Camillus has been on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh's Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business since 1977. He has held the Donald R. Beall Endowed Chair in Strategic Management since 1991. In addition to teaching in the MBA and doctoral programs, Camillus has been extensively involved in designing and offering executive education programs for practicing managers in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Prior to joining the University of Pittsburgh, he was Professor of Management at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. His research on strategic planning and management control has been funded by diverse organizations including the National Science Foundation, the Touche-Ross Foundation, the Copeland Fund, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, the American Productivity and Quality Center, the University Research Council and the National Energy Technology Laboratory. He has published extensively in professional journals, served on editorial boards, authored three books, and coauthored a fourth.

Bala Chakravarthy is Professor of Strategy and International Management and holds the Shell Chair in Sustainable Business Growth at IMD, Switzerland. Bala Chakravarthy’s research and teaching interests cover three related areas: strategy processes for sustainable business growth, corporate renewal, and leadership dilemmas. He has published four books, several case studies and numerous articles on these topics in top journals. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Strategic Management Society (SMS) from 1999-2004. He is also an inaugural Fellow of the SMS.

Yves Doz is the Solvay Chaired Professor at INSEAD and a Professor of Strategic Management. He has researched and published widely on the strategy and organisation of multinational companies. His books include The Multinational Mission, with C.K. Prahalad, From Global to Metanational, with Jose Santos and Peter Williamson, Fast Strategy, with Mikko Kosonen, and most recently Managing Global Innovation, with Keeley Wilson. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, of the Academy of International Business and of the Strategic Management Society.

Steven Floyd is the Isenberg Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts - Amherst. He has held positions as an endowed professor at the University of Virginia, a Chaired Professor and Director at the Institute of Management, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and the Robert A. Cizik Endowed Chair of Strategy, Technology and Manufacturing at the University of Connecticut. His research focuses on strategic decision making processes, corporate entrepreneurship and the middle management perspective on strategy process. Professor Floyd’s work has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of International Business Studies, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, Organization Studies, and Journal of Organization Behavior among others. Steven Floyd is an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal, was past General Editor of the Journal of Management Studies and serves on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal. He also serves as Treasurer of SMS and as a member of the SMS Executive Committee and Board of Directors.

Constance E. Helfat is the J. Brian Quinn Professor in Technology and Strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Constance Helfat’s research focuses on firm capabilities, including capabilities for technological innovation and firm adaptation and change. She also has conducted research on corporate executives, including women executives. Constance Helfat has published widely in leading academic journals, and has written and edited three academic books. She is a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society, received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management, serves as Co-Editor of the Strategic Management Journal and Associate Editor of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, and is on the editorial board of other academic journals. Constance Helfat received her undergraduate degree from the University of California-Berkeley and her Ph.D. from Yale University.

Christoph Lechner is a Chaired Professor of Strategic Management at the University of St. Gallen. He is Director of its Institute of Management, Academic Director of its PhD Program in "Strategy & Management", and Head of its Excellence Initiative on "Responsible Corporate Competitiveness" (RoCC). He has written five books and published his research in outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning, MIT Sloan Management Review, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Manager, among others. He is member of the Editorial Boards of the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning, and Journal of Strategy & Management. Co-authored papers won the 2005 SMS Best Conference Paper Prize and the 2006 Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award at the Academy of Management. He has led executive education program for leading companies in the US, Europe and Asia, and is a member of the board of directors of two public listed firms in Europe.

Professor Margaret Peteraf is the Leon E. Williams Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She received a Ph.D. in industrial organization economics from Yale University and has served on the faculties of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern as well as the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses primarily on three topical areas: the resource based view, dynamic capabilities, and strategic groups. She is a Fellow of both the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society. She has been active in the governance of both organizations, having been elected to both Boards of Governors and having served as the Division Chair of the Academy’s Business Policy and Strategy Division.

Henk W. Volberda is a professor of strategic management and business policy at the Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). His work on strategic renewal, coevolution and new organizational forms has led to an extensive number of published articles in academic journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Decision Support Systems, European Business Forum, European Management Journal, European Management Review, Global Strategic Management, International Journal of Disclosure and Governance, International Studies of Management & Organization, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Product Innovation Management,Long Range Planning, Management Science, Omega, Organization Development Journal, Organization Studies and Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal and Technology Analysis & Strategic Management. He is the author of “Building the Flexible Firm: How to Remain Competitive” (Oxford University Press 1998) and “De Flexibele Onderneming: Strategieen voor Succesvol Concurreren” (Kluwer 2004) both of which received wide acclaim. A book he co-wrote with Tom Elfring, Rethinking Strategy (Sage, 2001), was awarded the ERIM Best Book Award. His latest book is entitled Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization and was published in April 2011 and is used as Strategy textbook in many European top business schools. He recently wrote "Innovation 3.0" that is already in its second edition.

Dieter Heuskel studied economics at Bonn University, where he also received his PhD. From 1976 to 1979 he was a consultant for public and private development projects in West Africa. In 1980 he joined The Boston Consulting Group, co-founding BCG's Duesseldorf office in 1982. Since 1998, Dieter Heuskel has been a member of BCG's worldwide Executive Committee, and from 1998 to 2006 he was head of the German, Austrian, and Greek Management Team. Since 2007 he has been Chairman of BCG Germany. Dieter Heuskel's client work has focused on strategy and corporate development in a wide range of industries, including steel, telecommunications, and energy. He has dedicated particular attention to the development of multi-business corporations and to the strategic concepts of business migration, value chain architectures, and deconstruction.

Michael Mirow has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG from 2007-2009, currently works as senior advisor and consultant and has board seats in young high tech and private equity companies. He spent most of is professional career in many different businesses and functions at Siemens AG, prior to his retirement from Siemens in 2002 he served as Senior Vice President Corporate Strategies. In his last position he shaped the corporate strategy and was instrumental in designing and executing the important moves to improve and focus the portfolio of Siemens AG over the past 10 years. Michael Mirow currently teaches and has been awarded a honorary professorship for Strategic Management at the Technical University of Berlin and is also a visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck/Austria. His many publications cover topics in Strategic Management, Innovation, Globalization, Shareholder Value and Corporate Governance. Born in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil, Michael Mirow holds a degree in industrial engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt/Germany and earned his PHD in Systems Theory at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt/Germany.

Michael Nippa is a Full Professor of Strategic Leadership and International Management at the Faculty of Economics and Management at the Free University of Bozen. From 1982 until 1996 he was co-founder and managing director of a management consulting firm specialized in strategy-led reorganization and reengineering. Until 2014 he held a Chair of Management, Leadership, and Human Resources at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg. He has spent research sabbatical leaves at the Marshall School of Business (USC), at the Australian Graduate School of Management (UNSW), and at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business (SMU). His predominantly interdisciplinary research addresses strategic management issues in the fields of international management, corporate portfolio management, corporate governance, innovation management, social acceptance of technologies, organizational design, leadership and motivation. Recent work has been published in journals and periodicals such as Academy of Management Perspectives, Advances in International Management, International Journal of Management Reviews, Journal of World Business, Management and Organization Review, or Journal of Business Ethics.

Harald Rubner is a Senior Partner and Managing Director in the Cologne office of The Boston Consulting Group. He is a member of the worldwide utility practice and the corporate development practice. He has done major research work on deconstruction of the value chain including basic architectures and their performance in different environments. In 2008, Harald Rubner was nominated as a Boston Consulting Group “Fellow”. In his research he focuses on various topics of Corporate Portfolio Management.

Michael Jacobides holds the Sir Donald Gordon Chair of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the London Business School, where he is Associate Professor of Strategy. He has held visiting appointments at Wharton, Harvard Business School, NYU- Stern, has visited Bocconi, U. of Paris and Singapore Management University, and teaches in Columbia for the LBS/Columbia EMBA-Global. He has served on the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum on the Financial System and the Future of Investments, and is a Visiting Scholar with the New York Fed, focusing on changing business models in Financial Services. He studied in Athens, Cambridge, Stanford and Wharton, where he obtained his PhD.

Sidney G. Winter is the Deloitte and Touche Professor of Management, Emeritus, at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. During his career he has held regular or visiting appointments at seven universities, served on the staffs of the U.S. General Accounting Office, the RAND Corporation and the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers, been a consultant for various governmental and non-profit organizations, and appeared as an expert witness in antitrust and other litigation. With Richard Nelson, he co-authored An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change (1982). His recent research focus has been on the study of management problems from the viewpoint of evolutionary economics. He is an elected fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Sidney Winter is a graduate of Swarthmore College, and received his doctorate in economics from Yale University. He is also a member of the SMS Fellows.

Carliss Y. Baldwin is William L. White Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She studies the the design architecture and its impact on the structure of industries over time. She is the co-author of Design Rules: The Power of Modularity, the first of a projected two volumes. Recent papers include “Where do transactions come from? Modularity, transactions and the boundaries of firms,” (Industrial and Corporate Change, 2008), “Exploring the structure of complex software designs,” (with A. MacCormack and J. Rusnak, Management Science, 2006), and “How user innovations become commercial products,” (with C. Hienerth and E. von Hippel, Research Policy, 2006). Baldwin received a bachelor's degree from MIT in 1972, and MBA and DBA degrees from Harvard Business School.

Douglas G. Duncan is Fannie Mae’s vice president and chief economist. He is responsible for managing Fannie Mae’s Economics & Mortgage Market Analysis Group. In this leadership role, he provides all economic, housing, and mortgage market forecasts and analyses and serves as the company’s thought leader internally and with external constituent groups. Reporting directly to the senior vice president of Business Strategy, Duncan is an important source of information and commentary on the external business and economic environment, and is a key spokesperson on the economy, housing, and mortgage markets. Douglas G. Duncan received his Ph. D. in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University and his B.S. and M.S. in Agricultural Economics from North Dakota State University.

Takis Georgakopoulos is the Managing Director of Corporate Strategy at JP Morgan. Prior to joining JP Morgan, he was a Partner at McKinsey's New York Financial Institutions Group, serving several of the largest universal and investment banks. He holds a PhD from Technical University of Athens and an MA in Mathematics of Finance from Columbia University.

Alice M. Rivlin is a Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and a Visiting Professor in the Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University. She was the founding Director of the Congressional Budget Office, served as Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the first Clinton Administration, and as Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. She is a former president of the American Economic Association and winner of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship. Her Ph.D in economics is from Radcliffe College (Harvard University) and she has taught at Harvard, George Mason and the New School University. She is a regular commentator on Nightly Business Report and a member of the Board of NYSE Euronext.