About the Contributors

MICHAEL E. PORTER is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School.

JAMES C. COLLINS operates a management research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.

JERRY I. PORRAS is the Lane Professor, Emeritus, at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

MARK W. JOHNSON is the chairman and a cofounder of Innosight, a strategic innovation and investing company based in Boston.

CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

HENNING KAGERMANN is a former CEO of SAP AG, a software corporation based in Germany.

W. CHAN KIM is the Boston Consulting Group Bruce D. Henderson Chaired Professor of Strategy and International Management at Insead in France.

RENÉE MAUBORGNE is the Insead Distinguished Fellow and a professor of strategy at Insead in France.

GARY L. NEILSON is a senior vice president in the Chicago office of Booz & Company, a management consulting firm.

KARLA L. MARTIN is a principal in Booz & Company’s San Francisco office.

ELIZABETH POWERS is a principal in Booz & Company’s New York office.

ROBERT S. KAPLAN is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and codeveloper, with David P. Norton, of the balanced scorecard.

DAVID P. NORTON is the founder and president of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, Palladium Group, in Massachusetts.

ORIT GADIESH is the chairman of Bain & Company, a management consulting firm based in Boston.

JAMES L. GILBERT, a former director of Bain & Company, is an executive vice president of strategy and business development at Boston Scientific.

MICHAEL C. MANKINS is a managing partner in the San Francisco office of Marakon Associates, an international strategy consulting firm.

RICHARD STEELE is a partner in the New York office of The Bridge-span Group, a nonprofit consulting firm.

PAUL ROGERS is managing partner for the United Kingdom at Bain & Company’s London office.

MARCIA BLENKO is a partner at Bain & Company in Boston and leads Bain’s Global Organization practice.