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Melissa A. Schilling is an authority on innovation and strategy in high technology industries. She is the Herzog Professor of Management at the NYU Stern School of Business, where her research has investigated how tech firms win battles in platform ecosystems, and how...

Julia Binder is an expert in innovation and sustainability, and in the intersection where both can combine to transform our economic system. As a Professor of Sustainable Innovation and Business Transformation at IMD, her research has focused on how to create and run...

Lorenzo Davids is a leader in social development who has worked to address poverty and improve lives in South Africa. He is the CEO of The Development Impact Fund, an organization that invests in projects and entrepreneurs with potential to transform themselves and...

Loran Nordgren & David Schonthal are the originators of ‘Friction Theory’, a ground-breaking methodology that explains why promising innovations and change initiatives may struggle to gain traction with their intended audiences. Both professors at the Kellogg...

Julia DiBenigno is an associate professor at Yale, and an organizational field researcher and ethnographer whose work has advanced our understanding of topics related to the sociology of work. Julia addresses pressing organizational problems through qualitative,...

Hilke Plassmann is a pioneer in the field of decision and consumer neuroscience. She holds a PhD on Decision Neuroscience from Münster University and has been a post-doctoral scholar at Stanford and Caltech. Now she is the Octapharma Chaired Professor of Decision...

Executives who can learn the secret to solving complex problems have got it made, writes Professor Albrecht Enders Lots of people want to be popular. Googling the term ‘popularity’ returns more than four billion results (‘successfulness’ manages just 590,000). There...

Mehran Gul is an expert on the emergence of a new generation of big technology companies around the world. Mehran thinks and writes about organizations and the types of environments that serve as the breeding grounds for innovative ideas and practices. He has been a...