About the Authors

Dave Ulrich is on a three-year sabbatical (until July 2005) from the University of Michigan, where he is a professor of business, to serve as president of the Canada Montreal Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Professionally, he studies how organizations use human resources to build capabilities of speed, learning, collaboration, accountability, talent, and leadership. He has helped generate multiple award-winning databases that assess alignment between business strategies, HR practices, and HR competencies, and he has consulted and done research with more than half the Fortune 200.

He has published more than one hundred articles and book chapters and twelve books, including Why the Bottom Line Isn’t: How to Build Value Through People and Organization (with Norm Smallwood), Results-Based Leadership: How Leaders Build the Business and Improve the Bottom Line (with Norm Smallwood and Jack Zenger), and Human Resource Champions: The Next Agenda for Adding Value and Delivering Results.

He was editor of Human Resource Management Journal (1990–1999) and has served on the editorial boards of four other journals. At present, he is on the Herman Miller Board of Directors and is a Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources. In 2001, he was ranked by BusinessWeek as number one management educator and guru, and in 2000, he was listed in Forbes as one of the “world’s top five” business coaches.

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Wayne Brockbank is clinical professor of business at the University of Michigan Business School, as well as faculty director and core instructor of the Strategic Human Resource Planning Program, the Human Resource Executive Program, and the Advanced Human Resource Executive Program at the university’s Executive Education Center, programs that have been consistently rated over the last twelve years as the best HR executive programs in the United States and Europe by the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek.

He is director of the Michigan Human Resource Executive Programs in Hong Kong, Singapore, and India as well as the Michigan Global Program in Management Development in India. He is also a distinguished visiting professor of business administration at Instituto De Altos Estudios Empresariales (Argentina) and teaches at Mt. Eliza University (Australia).

His research focuses on linkages between HR practices and business strategy, high-value-added HR strategies, and implementing business strategy through people. He has published on these topics in the Human Resource Management Journal, Human Resource Planning, and Personnel Administrator and has contributed numerous book chapters. In 2000 the editorial board of the Human Resource Management Journal named his article “If HR Were Really Strategically Proactive” the best HR paper of the year. He has consulted with major corporations on every continent. Among his clients have been General Electric, Motorola, Harley-Davidson, Citicorp, Cisco, General Motors, Saudi Aramco, Texas Instruments, BP, Goldman Sachs, and Hewlett-Packard. He completed his PhD at UCLA, where he specialized in organization theory and business policy and strategy.

E-mail: [email protected]