JULIAN BIRKINSHAW is Deputy Dean and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School. He is the author of Fast/Forward: Make Your Company Fit for the Future.

LARRY DOWNES is a coauthor of Pivot to the Future: Discovering Value and Creating Growth in a Disrupted World. His earlier books include Big Bang Disruption, The Laws of Disruption, and Unleashing the Killer App (Harvard Business School Press, 2000).

WALTER FRICK is an editor at Quartz and was formerly the deputy editor of hbr.org.

WILLIAM A. GALSTON is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He spent nearly three decades teaching and conducting political science research at the University of Texas and the University of Maryland. He has participated in six presidential campaigns and spent two and a half years in the Clinton White House.

DIPAYAN GHOSH is a Shorenstein Fellow and codirector of the Platform Accountability Project at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was a technology and economic policy adviser in the Obama White House, and formerly served as an adviser on privacy and public policy issues at Facebook. He is the author of Terms of Disservice. Follow him on Twitter @ghoshd7.

VIJAY GOVINDARAJAN is the Coxe Distinguished Professor of Management at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. He is the author of The Three-Box Solution and The Three-Box Solution Playbook (Harvard Business Review Press, 2016, 2020).

CLARA HENDRICKSON is a research assistant at the Brookings Institution.

MARCO IANSITI is the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he heads the Technology and Operations Management Unit and the Digital Initiative. He has advised many companies in the technology sector, including Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon. He is a coauthor, with Karim R. Lakhani, of Competing in the Age of AI (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020).

MICHAEL G. JACOBIDES holds the Sir Donald Gordon Chair for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the London Business School.

KARIM R. LAKHANI is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Fellow at Harvard Business School. He is also the founding director of the Harvard Innovation Science Laboratory. He is a coauthor, with Marco Iansiti, of Competing in the Age of AI (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020).

DARRELL K. RIGBY is a partner in the Boston office of Bain & Company. He heads the firm’s global innovation practice. He is a coauthor of Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020).

AMIT SHARMA is the founder and CEO of Narvar, a post-purchase experience platform, and a former executive at Apple and Walmart.

MAURICE E. STUCKE is a cofounder of the Konkurrenz Group and a law professor at the University of Tennessee.

DAVID WESSEL is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, which he joined after 30 years on the staff of the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of two New York Times best-sellers: In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic (2009) and Red Ink: Inside the High Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget (2012) and has shared two Pulitzer Prizes.

DENISE LEE YOHN is a leading authority on positioning great brands and building exceptional organizations and has 25 years of experience working with world-class brands including Sony and Frito-Lay. Denise is a consultant, speaker, and author of What Great Brands Do: The Seven Brand-Building Principles That Separate the Best from the Rest and FUSION: How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies.

HOWARD YU is the author of LEAP: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied, and LEGO professor of management and innovation at the IMD business school in Switzerland. In 2015, Yu was featured in Poets & Quants as one of the Best 40 Under 40 Professors. He was shortlisted for the 2017 Thinkers50 Innovation Award, and in 2018 appeared on the Thinkers50 Radar list of 30 management thinkers “most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led.”