ROBERT A. BURGELMAN is the Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Management and Director of the Stanford Executive Program of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Professor Burgelman has taught strategic management at Stanford since 1981. Previously he was on the faculties of Antwerp University (Belgium), New York University, and Harvard Business School (as a Marvin Bower Fellow). He holds a licenciate degree in Applied Economics from Antwerp University and an M.A. in Sociology and a Ph.D. in Management of Organizations from Columbia University, where he studied as a European Doctoral Fellow (Ford Foundation) and ICM Fellow (Belgium). He also received an honorary doctorate from the Copenhagen Business School. Professor Burgelman's research concerns the role of strategy in firm evolution. He has studied, in particular, the strategic processes involved in and the adaptive consequences of internal corporate venturing, strategic business exit, and co-evolutionary lock-in. His current research focuses on complex strategic integration in multibusiness firms. He is the author of Strategy Is Destiny: How Strategy-Making Shapes a Company's Future (Free Press, 2002). He is also co-author of Inside Corporate Innovation (Free Press, 1986) and Strategic Dynamics: Concepts and Cases (McGraw-Hill, 2006) and has published numerous articles in leading academic and practitioner journals. Since 1989, he has served as co-editor of Research on Technological Innovation, Management and Policy (JAI Press). He has taught executive programs and led senior and top management seminars worldwide, for many leading companies. He has served on several boards of directors and advisory boards of private companies.

CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research and teaching interests center on the management of technological innovation and finding new markets for new technologies. Prior to joining the HBS faculty, Christensen served as chairman and president of CPS Corporation, a materials science firm that he co-founded with several MIT professors. He holds a B.A. in economics from Brigham Young University; an M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar; and M.B.A. and D.B.A. degrees from the Harvard Business School. In various years, he and his co-authors have won awards given for the best articles published in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Business History Review, and Production and Operations Management . His book, The Innovator's Dilemma, received the 1997 Global Business Book Award for the best business book published that year. His most recent book is The Innovator's Solution (Harvard Business School Press, 2003). He serves as a consultant to the management teams of many of the world's leading corporations. He and his wife Christine are the parents of five children.

STEVEN C. WHEELWRIGHT is the President of Brigham Young University—Hawaii in Laie, Hawaii on the island of Oahu. Prior to that assignment, which he took on in June 2007, he was a Baker Foundation Professor of Management at the Harvard Business School. At HBS, he has also served as the Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publication Activities, and the Chairman of HBS Publishing. His teaching and research have focused on technology and operations management, with a special focus on effective new product development. From 2000 –2003, Wheelwright served in a full-time volunteer position as the President of the London, England Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In that assignment he was responsible for 200 young men and young women serving as full-time missionaries in London and southeast England. From 1970 –2000, Wheelwright held academic appointments at INSEAD, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the Harvard Business School. He holds an M.B.A and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, a B.S. from the University of Utah, and an Honorary Doctorate from Harvard University. His articles have appeared in HBR, Management Science, ASQ, California Management Review, and numerous other academic publications, and his books include titles in forecasting, new product development, operations strategy, and technology strategy. His newest book, Pursuing the Competitive Edge: Strategy, Operations and Technology, coauthored with Robert Hayes, Gary Pisano, and David Upton was published by Free Press in 2004. He has served as a board member for a number of major corporations and currently serves on the board of Zions Bancorp and O.C. Tanner Company. He and his wife Margaret are the parents of 5 children and have 15 grandchildren.