Thinkers & Ideas

Albrecht Enders is a Professor of Strategy and Management and Co-Director of the Transition-To-Business Leadership Program at IMD Business School. Together with Arnaud Chevallier , Professor of Strategy, Director of Global Management Programs, and Director of Science in Sustainable Management and Technology at IMD Business School he recently co-authored Solvable: A Simple Solution to Complex Probl...

Alan Murray is the President and CEO of Fortune Media. He is a lifelong journalist having previously held leadership positions at the Wall Street Journal and CNBC. In his latest book, Tomorrow’s Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business , Alan discusses the history and future of corporate capitalism, suggesting that a variety of social, political, technological, and environmental forces are f...

Dorie Clark teaches executive education at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. She is the author of 5 books including Entrepreneurial You and Reinventing You . Clark has been named one of top 50 business thinkers by Thinkers50. In her latest book The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World Clark explains how almos...

Roger L. Martin is a Professor Emeritus of Strategic Management and former Dean at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. He is a trusted strategic adviser to the CEOs of many global companies. Roger has consistently been featured in the Thinkers50 list, where he was named the world’s number one management thinker in 2017. He has authored 12 books, including When More is Not Bett...

Lynda Gratton is a Professor of Management Practice at London Business School and the CEO and founder of HSM advisory . Lynda has authored over ten books, including The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity co-authored together with Andrew J. Scott . In her new book, Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organization and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone , Lynda discusses how to d...

Luc de Brabandere is a Senior Advisor at BCG, a BCG Henderson Institute Alumni Fellow, co-founder of CartoonBase , and an invited Professor at The Brussels Solvay School and ETH Zurich. He is the co-author of Thinking in New Boxes , which offers a new paradigm for business creativity. In his most recent book, Be Logical, Be Creative, Be Critical: The Art of Thinking in a Digital World , together w...

John A. List is a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and Chief Economist at Walmart. List is co-author of The Why Axis , a fellow of The Econometric Society, and an editor of the Journal of Political Economy. His new book, The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale , focuses on the necessity of scaling ideas and the things that help and get in the way o...

Dr. Albert Bourla is Chairman and CEO of Pfizer Inc., and author of Moonshot: Inside Pfizer’s Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible , a new book that chronicles how Pfizer achieved what many believed to be impossible: the creation of a high efficacy, safe, and producible at-scale mRNA vaccine within a tenth of the expected time. In a conversation with Martin Reeves, Chairman of the BCG H...

Andrew Binns and Charles O’Reilly are co-founders of Change Logic, a Boston-based strategic advisory firm. Charles is a Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and author of multiple other books on business management. They partnered with Michael Tushman, Professor at Harvard Business School, to coalesce their decades of collective experience in innovation and corporate transformatio...

Ranjay Gulati is an organizational scholar and professor of business at Harvard Business School. His latest book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies shares the stories of companies that pursue what he calls a “deep purpose”. Ranjay studied the actions, cultures, and leadership companies pursuing purpose — where they succeed and where they fall short, to help other leade...

Ron Adner is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Ron previously authored the book The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss . His new book, Winning the Right Game: How to Disrupt, Defend, and Deliver in a Changing World , is a handbook on how leaders and companies can succeed in an era of ecosystem-based disruption. Adner vie...

Martin Ford is an entrepreneur, futurist, and author of multiple books, including the New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots . He recently published a sequel, Rule of the Robots , in which he claims that the best way to understand the impact of artificial intelligence on the economy and society is to see it as a utility analogous to electricity — in fact, “the electricity of intelligence.” I...

Paul Polman was the CEO of Unilever from 2009 to 2019, the first from outside the company in its century-plus history, and has been described by the Financial Times as “a standout CEO of the past decade.” Today he works to accelerate action by business to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which he helped develop. Andrew Winston is one of the world’s most widely read writers and leading...

Loran Nordgren is Professor of Management and Organizations at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. His research explores the basic psychological processes that guide how we think and act. David Schonthal is Clinical Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Kellogg, as well as Faculty Director of Kellogg’s Zell Fellows Program, a selective venture accelerator program de...

Azeem Azhar is the creator of Exponential View , a global platform for in-depth tech analysis. He is a member of the WEF’s Global Futures Council, a contributor to publications including the Financial Times and the MIT Technology Review, and the host of HBR’s Exponential View podcast. His new book, The Exponential Age , explores how the emergence and exponential advancement of key technologies hav...

Christian Stadler is a Professor of Strategic Management at Warwick Business School and a member of the Editorial Board of the Strategic Management Journal and Strategic Organization. Through his research, Christian primarily examines long-term corporate sustainability — how companies grow, adapt, and beat their competitors through learning, innovating, and diversifying. Together with Julia Hautz,...

Jennifer Moss is an award-winning author, speaker, and radio columnist, reporting on topics related to happiness and workplace well-being. Her articles have appeared in Forbes, the Society of Human Resource Management, Fortune, and Harvard Business Review. Since March 2020, many of us have been operating in crisis mode; quick pivots, learning new policies, and processes on the fly, working from ho...

Kai-Fu Lee is the CEO of Sinovation Ventures and the New York Times bestselling author of AI Superpowers . Lee was formerly the President of Google China and a senior executive at Microsoft and Apple. He chairs the Artificial Intelligence Council at the World Economic Forum. His new book, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future , co-authored with Chen Qiufan, is a literary call-and-response: Qiufan ca...

Sandra Sucher is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School and an internationally recognized trust researcher. Her new book, The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It , co-authored with Shalene Gupta, is an exploration of the changing nature of trust. The book leverages interdisciplinary research, alongside key business case studies, to help elaborate on th...

Jeffrey Garten was Dean of the Yale School of Management until 2005, before that Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade, and before that a Wall Street investment banker. In his new book, Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy , he tells a detailed narrative of the forces and protagonists that led up to the “Nixon Shock” and the breakdown i...

Rob Lachenauer is the CEO at BanyanGlobal, an organization that advises the owners of the world’s leading family enterprises on strategy and governance. He recently co-authored a book, Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook: How to Build and Sustain a Successful, Enduring Enterprise , that provides an overview of the success factors for family businesses, based on his experience as a fam...

Tsedal Neeley is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Her work focuses on how leaders can scale their organization by developing and implementing global and digital strategies and regularly advises top leaders who are embarking on virtual work and large-scale change that involves global expansion, digital transformation, and becoming more agile. The rapid changes br...

Ram Charan is a world-renowned business advisor, author, and speaker who has spent the past 40 years working with many of the top companies, CEOs, and boards. Ram has authored over 30 books since 1998 that have sold over 4 million copies in more than a dozen languages. His recent book, Rethinking Competitive Advantage , explains the source of digital giants’ competitive advantage and describes the...

Philippe Aghion is professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Collège de France and INSEAD, and formerly of Harvard University. He joins BCG Global Chief Economist Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak in conversation to discuss his new book The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations , a broad take on the different variants of capitalism and their shortcomi...

Olivier Sibony is a Professor at HEC Paris and an Associate Fellow of Saïd Business School in Oxford University. Together with Daniel Kahneman and Cass R. Sunstein he recently published a new book, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment , which focuses on the scatter inherent in decision making. Learn more about how noise differs from bias, how it arises, and how it can be reduced through what the author...