About the Contributors

MICHAEL BEER is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School.

RUSSELL A. EISENSTAT is a partner at TruePoint, a management consulting firm in Massachusetts, and a former professor at Harvard Business School.

DAVID A. GARVIN is the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

RONALD A. HEIFETZ codirects the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

PAUL HEMP, formerly a senior editor of Harvard Business Review, is the global director of brand transformation at HCL Technologies.

ALAN JACKSON is a senior partner at The Boston Consulting Group.

PERRY KEENAN is a partner and managing director in The Boston Consulting Group’s Chicago office.

ROBERT KEGAN is the William and Miriam Meehan Professor in Adult Learning and Professional Development at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.

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

JOHN P. KOTTER is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School.

LISA LASKOW LAHEY is the associate director of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.

MARTY LINSKY is a cofounder and partner at Cambridge Leadership Associates, a consulting firm in Boston.

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

DEBRA E. MEYERSON is an associate professor of organizational behavior at Stanford University’s School of Education.

NITIN NOHRIA is the dean of Harvard Business School.

MICHAEL A. ROBERTO is a professor of management at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island.

HAROLD L. SIRKIN is a Chicago-based senior partner and managing director at The Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm.

THOMAS A. STEWART, formerly the editor of Harvard Business Review, is the chief marketing and knowledge officer at Booz & Company in New York.

BERT SPECTOR is an associate professor of organizational behavior at Northeastern University in Boston.