Martin Coles is Starbucks’ Chief Operating Officer. His main responsibility is to drive Starbucks long-term operational strategy for our core businesses, including Starbucks U.S., Starbucks Coffee International, Global Consumer Products and Supply Chain Operations. Martin joined Starbucks in April 2004 as President, Starbucks Coffee International. In that role he led teams responsible for the overall management, business development and operations of Starbucks in all international markets. Prior to Starbucks, Martin served as President and Chief Executive Officer for the Reebok brand. During an eight-year tenure at Nike, Inc., he held several executive-level general management, sales and operations positions for Nike, Inc.’s Global and European operations. His broad experience also includes executive positions at Gateway, Inc., Letsbuyit.com (London) and at one of PepsiCo, Inc.’s U.S. Bottling operations. He spent the first ten years of his career in roles of increasing responsibility at Procter & Gamble both in the U.K. and later the U.S.A.

C.K. Prahalad, the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, specializes in corporate strategy. He received honorary doctorates from the University of London (Economics), Stevens Institute of Technology (Engineering) and University of Abertay, Dundee (Business). He was a member of the UN Blue Ribbon Commission on Private Sector and Development. A prominent world-class figure, Professor Prahalad has consulted with the top management of many of the world’s foremost companies. He serves on the Board of Directors of NCR Corporation, Hindustan Lever Limited and the World Resources Institute. He is the Chairman and Founder of The Next Practice.

Kathryn Rudie Harrigan is the Henry Kravis Professor of Business Leadership at Columbia University. She holds a DBA earned at Harvard University in 1979; an MBA from the University of Texas earned in 1976; as well as a BA, from Macalester earned in 1973. Kathy’s elective courses include: (1) Corporate Growth and Development and (2) Turnaround Management. She serves on the Boards of Cambrex Corp., traded on the New York Stock Exchange, and the privately held company Ronin Development as well as on advisory boards for MBA start-ups.

Bala Chakravarthy is Professor of Strategy and International Management and holds the Shell Chair in Sustainable Business Growth at IMD, Switzerland. Bala’s research and teaching interests cover three related areas: strategy processes for sustainable business growth, corporate renewal, and leadership dilemmas. Bala has published four books, several case studies and numerous articles on these topics in top journals. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Strategic Management Society (SMS) from 1999-2004. He is also an inaugural Fellow of the SMS.

George Yip is Vice President and Director of Research & Innovation at Capgemini Consulting, UK. He manages the research and innovation process to develop thought leadership for the company. He was previously Professor of Strategic and International Management and Associate Dean at London Business School, and the Chair of Marketing and Strategy at Cambridge University. George has eleven years of full-time business experience in international business, marketing, and strategy, working in the United States and the United Kingdom. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics from Cambridge University; and an MBA and doctorate from Harvard Business School.

Yves Doz is the Timken Chaired Professor of Global Technology and Innovation at INSEAD and Visiting Professor at the Helsinki School of Economics. He was Dean of Executive Education (1998-2002) and Associate Dean for Research and Development (1990-1995) at INSEAD. Professor Doz also was Director of the Management of Technology and Innovation programme at INSEAD, a multi-disciplinary effort involving about 20 faculty members and researchers that ran from 1987 to 1994. Yves Doz received his Doctoral degree from Harvard University and is a graduate of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (Jouy-en-Josas, France). He has also taught at the Harvard Business School, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo.

Mikko Kosonen is the Executive Vice President and member of the strategic management of Sitra – the Finish Innovation Fund. He is responsible for heading the newly-established Innovations and New Solutions unit. The unit’s mandate includes the development and implementation of measures that are in line with Sitra’s mission of revitalising the Finnish innovation environment. Before joining in Sitra Mikko Kosonen worked for over twenty years in Nokia Group. His tasks covered the roles of CIO and SVP, Business Infrastructure and Corporate Planning, of the Nokia Group. Additionally, he is the author of many articles printed in influential business and research publications on the subject of international business, strategy, organization and knowledge management.

Jonathan Murray is Microsoft’s Worldwide Technology Officer for Public Sector. He leads Microsoft’s Technology Officer Network. This group of senior technology policy specialists drives Microsoft’s engagement with government and academic leaders concerning the future direction of high impact technologies and the implication of these trends on social and economic development.
Prior to his current role Jonathan spent 10 years at Microsoft’s corporate headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Prior to joining Microsoft in 1994, Jonathan spent five years with ARCO International Oil and Gas as a technology strategist. Jonathan previously worked for Scientific Software Intercomp (SSI), an oil industry consulting company, and for Logica, a leading systems integration company, where he worked on various large-scale public sector systems projects.

Timo Ali-Vehmas is Vice President of Nokia Standardization and Industry Liaison. He is running the team responsible for Nokia’s standardization activities globally. He joined Nokia in 1980, and he has been working in different units and functions of Nokia, including GSM and WCDMA system and product development. He started his career in developing signal processing algorithms and software for data modems. Timo Ali-Vehmas holds a Master of Science degree in Telecommunications from Helsinki University of Technology. He is also a member of the Executive Board of EICTA, the European Industry Association for Information Systems, Communication Technologies and Consumer Electronics.

John Zysman is Co-director of BRIE (Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy) and Professor of Political Science at the University of California Berkeley. His writing have focused on corporate strategy and public policy in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Zysman has served on a variety of public and private boards and served as a consultant to governments and companies in Europe, Asia, and the United States. John Zysman received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1973 and his BA from Harvard College in 1967.

Dennis W. Draper, an experienced scholar and business administrator, recently joined Loyola Marymount University as Dean of the College of Business Administration. Draper has held senior academic positions for more than 20 years, including director of the Center for Investment Studies and associate professor of finance at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. He previously served as Vice Dean of the graduate programs at USC. Draper earned a Bachelor’s Degree in industrial engineering/operations research from Northwestern University, a Master’s Degree in engineering economic systems from Stanford University and a Doctorate in business from Stanford University.

Stephen L. Mangum is Acting Dean and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Professor of Management and Human Resources, Max. M. Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University. His educational training includes an undergraduate degree in economics and a master's degree in human resource management from the University of Utah. He received his Ph.D. in economics from George Washington University. His involvement in international human resource development includes activities in Mauritania, Oman, Northern Ireland, India, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.

Howard Thomas joined Warwick Business School as Dean in 2000. He is Chair of the Global Foundation for Management Education, and former Chair of the board of the Graduate Management Admissions Council. He is a past President of the SMS, and was elected as an Inaugural Fellow. He is Vice-President of the European Foundation for Management Development and the Association of Business Schools. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management in the USA and the British Academy of Management, where he has also been elected onto its Council. Before arriving at WBS, he was Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for nine years.

William H. Glick, Ph.D., is Dean and H. Joe Nelson III Professor of Management at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, Rice University in Houston, Texas. Prior to joining the Jones School, Bill Glick was the chair of the Department of Management and a Dean's Council of 100 Distinguished Scholars at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, Tempe. He was a visiting professor at INSEAD in 2002. Before joining the ASU faculty in 1995, he was the director of the Business Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin and taught there from 1981 to 1995. Bill Glick earned his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981.

Mark Kramer is Founder and Managing Director of FSG Social Impact Advisors, Senior Fellow in the CSR Initiative at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and Co-Founder of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, a nonprofit research organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to founding FSG, Mark served for twelve years as President of Kramer Capital Management, a venture capital firm, and before that as an Associate at the law firm of Ropes & Gray in Boston. He received a B.A. summa cum laude from Brandeis University, an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, and a J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Mike Lord is Director of the Flow Institute for International Studies, Sisel Fellow in Strategy, and Director of the China Program at the Babcock Graduate School of Management of Wake Forest University. Mike also serves as chairman of the research committee and board member of the Foundation for Public Affairs of the Public Affairs Council, the U.S.-based association of senior corporate public affairs executives. Mike Lord received a BA in Government & International Relations from Harvard University; an MBA in International Management from Baylor University; and his Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Michael J. Lenox is an Associate Professor of Business at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and holds a secondary appointment as Associate Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University. He currently serves as the area coordinator for the newly formed Strategy Area and is the faculty director and founder of Duke’s new Corporate Sustainability Initiative. He received his Ph.D. in Technology Management and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999 and the degrees of Bachelor and Master of Science in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia.

David Baron is the David S. and Ann M. Barlow Professor of Political Economy and Strategy in the Graduate School of Business, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He received a BS from the University of Michigan, an MBA from Harvard University, and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Indiana University. In 2005 he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His principal research interests have been the theory of the firm, the economics of regulation, mechanism design and its applications, political economics, and nonmarket strategy. His current research focuses on political economics and strategy in the business environment.

David Vogel is Professor of Business and Political Science at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and holds the Solomon P. Lee Distinguished Professorship in Business Ethics. His research has focused on the politics of business, the comparative study of consumer and environmental policy, trade and environment, usiness ethics, and corporate social responsibility. Vogel has been editor of the California Management Review since 1982. David Vogel received a BA in political science from the City College of New York and a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University.

Andrew A. King is a Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School and an Associate Professor at the Tuck School of Business. Prior to joining Tuck, he was a faculty member at the Stern School of Business at NYU. He has held visiting positions at both the University of Michigan and MIT. He has authored numerous publications on technology strategy, environmental management, and industry self-regulation. Andrew King holds a PhD in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MS in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley; and a BA in mechanical engineering from Brown University.

Witold J. Henisz is an Associate Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in Business and Public Policy from the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley in 1998 and previously received a M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. His research examines the impact of political hazards on international investment strategy. He also is currently a principal in the risk management consultancy The Probity Group, which provides executives with insight into high-impact risks to business and government activity.