Maital is the Academic Director of TIM-Technion Institute of Management, Prof. (emeritus) Technion, and senior researcher at the S. Neaman Institute, Technion. He has been a summer Visiting Professor for 20 years in MIT Sloan School of Management's Management of Technology M.Sc. program, teaching over 1,000 R&D engineers from 40 countries. He is the author co-author or editor of eight books, including Executive Economics (The Free Press), translated into seven languages, and the recent Managing New Product Development & Innovation (Elgar, 2001). He is co-editor of a new journal, International Journal of Technology Management & Innovation Education. He has written guest editorials for Barron's, and writes regular columns for Globes (Israel's business daily) and Jerusalem Report (fortnightly). His research currently focuses on profit-driven innovation -- how to combine creativity and discipline to achieve marketplace success.

Bacharach is the McKelvey-Grant Professor in the Department of Organizational Behavior at the ILR School at Cornell University. He is the director of Cornell’s New York City-based Institute for Workplace Studies and the Smithers Institute, and is past chair of the Department of Organizational Behavior. Bacharach is the author and editor of over twenty books on management, organizational behavior, and industrial relations. His academic research articles have been published in most of the field’s leading journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, Human Relations, etc. Bacharach teaches the discipline of proactive leadership to executives, politicians, managers, and students around the world. Among the organizations that have been trained in his proactive leadership approach are: Computer Sciences Corporation, PepsiAmericas, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, March of Dimes, Wal-Mart Stores, Citigroup, International Monetary Fund, Mellon Financial, Starbucks, BASF, BMC Software, Boeing, InterContinental Hotels Group, Chubb and Nintendo.

Blackman is CEO and founder of Condor Management. In three countries, he has trained more than 4000 non-financial managers on how to read financial reports. He has created three commercial financial software packages for producing financial management information and simulations for enhancing the understanding of financial reports. In addition, he is an ERP financial consultant. In the past he held the position of CFO of a South African public company, and has been CFO of 3 companies (located in Britain, South Africa and the USA).

Dhebar is Professor of Marketing at Babson College. Prior to joining the faculty at Babson, Anirudh was on the faculty at the Harvard Business School and a Visiting Professor of Marketing at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He teaches in Babson’s graduate program as well as the college’s custom executive-development offerings for, among others, IBM, Intel, EMC, Siemens, SAP, Infineon, Ericsson, Novartis, the Diagnostic Marketing Association, Fidelity Investments, MetLife and Estée-Lauder. Independent of Babson, Dhebar has taught at and consulted with companies including JP Morgan Chase, Molex Inc., Novell, the Associated Newspapers Group in the United Kingdom, Time Inc. and The Weather Channel. He has also taught in a “Marketing Telecommunications” program at INSEAD, France and in established-company senior-management and high-technology emerging-company programs at TIM. Dhebar, who holds a BS in electrical engineering (from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai) and an MBA (from the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata), obtained his PhD in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University. He is a recipient of Babson’s Thomas Kennedy Award for Teaching Excellence at the graduate level for three consecutive years (2002-2005).

Dierickx is Professor at INSEAD. Before joining INSEAD, he worked at the Division of Research, Harvard Business School. At INSEAD, he has received three times the award for Outstanding Teacher in the Elective Courses. He is the Director of the INSEAD executive programme on Negotiation Dynamics.

An internationally recognized expert on organization design, Galbraith helps major global corporations create capability for competing in the next century. His work focuses on the areas of organizational design, change, and development; strategy and organization at the corporate, business unit, and international levels; and international partnering arrangements including joint ventures and network-type organizations. He is currently examining organizational units that are rapidly reconfigurable to suit quickly changing demands of customers and markets across multinational boundaries. Dr. Galbraith consults regularly with international clients in the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. Dr. Galbraith is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California. He is also Professor Emeritus at IMD, Switzerland.

Gerstel has been chairman of Compugen since 1997. In addition, he serves as chairman of two Compugen affiliated companies, Evogene Ltd and Keddem Bioscience, and is a co-founder and co-chairman of Itamar Medical (an Israeli based medical device company). Prior to relocating to Israel in 1994, Mr. Gerstel was co-chairman and CEO of ALZA Corporation, which he helped found in 1968. He currently serves as a director of Yissum Ltd, Yeda Ltd and the US Foundation for the National Medals of Science and Technology. Gerstel is a member of the Board of Governors and Executive Committee of the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University. He is also an advisor to the Burrill Life Sciences Fund and the board of the Israel-U.S. Bi-national Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation. Gerstel holds a B.S. from Yale University and an MBA from Stanford University.

Heifetz co-directs the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. His research aims to provide strategy and tactics for mobilizing adaptive work in politics, businesses, and nonprofits. His widely acclaimed book, Leadership Without Easy Answers was published by The Belknap/Harvard University Press in 1994. His second book, Staying Alive: Leadership on the Line, written with Marty Linsky, was published by Harvard Business School Press in January 2002. Formerly a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Heifetz works extensively with leaders in government, nonprofits, and business. His consultations and seminars with individuals, executive committees and leadership teams focus on the work of leaders in generating and sustaining adaptive change across political boundaries, operating units, product divisions, and functions in politics, government agencies and international businesses. Heifetz is a graduate of Columbia University, Harvard Medical School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Dr. Jeannet is the F. W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business and Director of The Glavin Center. He is also director of the Europe Institute. Dr. Jeannet has primary teaching responsibility for two courses: Global Marketing and Global Strategic Management. Dr. Jeannet has taught in numerous management development programs in the United States, Asia, and Europe including the Keio University Graduate School of Business in Japan and IMD where he holds a point faculty appointment as Professor of Global Strategy & Marketing. Dr. Jeannet's areas of expertise include: Marketing, Competitive Strategy, Global Marketing, International Marketing and Market Orientation. He has an M.B.A and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts.

Koza holds the Chair of International Strategic Management and is Director of the Center for International Business at the Cranfield School of Management. He also holds the position of Research Professor (visiting) at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. Prior to arriving at Cranfield, Mitchell was on the faculty of INSEAD in Fontainebleau France for over a decade, where he co-founded and directed the senior management program on Managing Partnerships and Strategic Alliances. He has held appointments at UCLA, New York University, Yale University, and the University of Chicago. He holds a Masters degree from Harvard University and a Doctorate from the University of Chicago. Before pursuing a career as a teacher and author, he directed a New York based research company.
Mitchell's research examines a variety of issues in international strategy and management. Currently, he is pursuing a multi-year investigation of the ways that successful companies adapt in times of increasing disorder.

Lechner is a Professor of Management at the Stern School of Business, New York University. During the past 14 years, Dr. Lechner has developed a diverse teaching portfolio of organization management courses customized to meet the learning needs of domestic and international Executives and MBA students. Prior to coming to NYU, Dr. Lechner has taught on the executive program of Cornell University SILR and Rutgers Business IEMBA. She has been acknowledged as an outstanding educator and is the recipient of the GE teaching excellence award. Dr. Lechner also served as a research fellow with McKinsey & Co. where she conducted cross-industry best organizational practices research, and developed consulting and training materials for McKinsey's engagement teams worldwide. Dr. Lechner's consulting projects involve leading firms within the financial services, chemicals and pharmaceuticals industries on organizational design and practices related to the transition towards solution oriented and collaborative systems. She holds an MBA and a Ph.D. degree in Organization Management awarded by Rutgers University, and a B.Sw. from Tel-Aviv University.

Leleux is the S. Schmidheiny Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at IMD - International Institute for Management Development (Lausanne, Switzerland). He was previously Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD and the Zubillaga Chair in Finance and Entrepreneurship at Babson College, Wellesley, MA (USA) from 1994 to 1999. He obtained his Ph.D. at INSEAD, specializing in Corporate and Entrepreneurial Finance. His experience includes five years of corporate venturing in South East Asia for a major Indonesia-based agribusiness conglomerate. He holds an M.Sc. degree in Agricultural Engineering, an M.A. in Education from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), and an MBA from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is an advisor to AVC Venture Capital in Vevey (Switzerland), a Director of the 3iVenturelab at INSEAD, and President of the Jury of the International Venture Capital Conference in Sophia Antipolis. He is also a Founder and Partner of Venture Growth Strategies LLC, a Boston-based consulting company specializing in corporate venturing and private equity investments. He has also acted as consultant to organizations such as GE Equity Capital, Lucent Technologies, Siemens-Nixdorf, Gemplus, and others on issues related to corporate venturing programs.

Levin is the President of Levin Consulting Group LLC that specializes in the practice of organization transformation and change, organization design, organization culture alignment, executive team development and executive coaching. Prior to Levin Consulting, Levin served as Principal and National Practice Leader for the Organization Transformation Consulting Practice at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Levin has also served as the organizational change practice leader at Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program. Prior to his position at Kaiser, Levin was an executive in the organization effectiveness & human resources practice at KPMG Peat Marwick Main & Co. In addition, Levin served as a management training and development consultant with Arthur Andersen & Co and an organization development consultant with Perrone-Ambrose Associates Ltd. Levin is the Program Director for the Organizational Psychology Graduate Programs at Alliant International University in California. Levin has also held adjunct faculty positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago in their psychology department, in Webster University’s MBA and Human Resources Management graduate programs, and at the California School of Professional Psychology. Levin holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Illinois, a M.S. in Clinical Psychology from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Psychology/Political Science from the University of Illinois.

Linsky is a full time faculty member at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a consultant, facilitator, and trainer regarding a variety of business issues. He addresses a wide range of public and private sector clients in the US and abroad. He is also active in the field of journalism and has received citations for several publications.

Lys is a Gary A. Rosenberg Distinguished Professor of Real Estate Management Director, Guthrie Center for Real Estate Research Professor of Accounting Information and Management Adjunct Professor of Law, Northwestern School of Law  Ph.D Graduate School of Management, University of Rochester, 1982 (Accounting and Finance), lic.rer.pol. University of Bern, Switzerland, 1976 (Economics & Operations Research, summa cum laude). He has also worked as the Associate Editor of Journal of Accounting and Economics, 1988-present, Editorial Board, The Accounting Review (1986-89), Selection Committee, and the State Farm Companies Foundation Business Doctoral Dissertation Awards (1996-present).