About the Contributors

DOMINIC BARTON is the global managing director of McKinsey & Company and a trustee of the Brookings Institution.

DENNIS CAREY is vice chairman of Korn Ferry, where he specializes in CEO and board director recruitment. He is coauthor (with Ram Charan and Michael Useem) of Boards That Lead (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014).

RAM CHARAN is a business adviser to CEOs and corporate boards. He is coauthor (with Dennis Carey and Michael Useem) of Boards That Lead (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014).

SANGEET PAUL CHOUDARY is the founder and CEO of Platform Thinking Labs and an entrepreneur-in-residence at INSEAD. He is the author (with Marshall W. Van Alstyne and Geoffrey G. Parker) of Platform Revolution (W.W. Norton & Company, 2016).

CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

ROB CROSS is a professor of management at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and a coauthor of The Hidden Power of Social Networks.

THOMAS H. DAVENPORT is a distinguished professor at Babson College, a research fellow at the MIT Center for Digital Business, and a senior adviser to Deloitte Analytics. He is the author (with Julia Kirby) of Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines.

VIJAY GOVINDARAJAN is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School. He is the lead author of Reverse Innovation (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012).

ADAM GRANT is a professor of management and psychology at Wharton and the author of Give and Take and Originals.

ADI IGNATIUS is Editor in Chief of Harvard Business Review.

JULIA KIRBY was an HBR editor at large. She is the author (with Thomas H. Davenport) of Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines.

JON KLEINBERG is a professor of computer science at Cornell University and the coauthor of the textbooks Algorithm Design (with Éva Tardos) and Networks, Crowds, and Markets (with David Easley).

MICHAEL LUCA is an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School.

LINDSAY A. MARTIN is the executive director of innovation and an adviser at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

PATRICIA A. McDONALD is Intel’s vice president of human resources and the director of the Intel Talent Organization.

RORY McDONALD is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School.

ROBERT S. MECKLENBURG, MD, is the medical director of the Center for Health Care Solutions at Virginia Mason Medical Center.

ERIN MEYER is a professor and the program director for Managing Global Virtual Teams at INSEAD. She is the author of The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business.

SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN is a professor of economics at Harvard University and the coauthor (with Eldar Shafir) of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much.

INDRA NOOYI is chairman and CEO of PepsiCo.

GEOFFREY G. PARKER is a professor of management science at Tulane University and is a fellow at the MIT Center for Digital Business. As of July 2016, he is a professor of engineering at Dartmouth College. He is the author (with Marshall W. Van Alstyne and Sangeet Paul Choudary) of Platform Revolution (W.W. Norton & Company, 2016).

MICHAEL RAYNOR is a director at Deloitte Consulting LLP.

REB REBELE is a research fellow in the Wharton People Analytics initiative at the University of Pennsylvania.

MARSHALL W. VAN ALSTYNE is a professor and chair of the information systems department at Boston University and a fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. He is the author (with Geoffrey G. Parker and Sangeet Paul Choudary) of Platform Revolution (W.W. Norton & Company, 2016).

ADAM WAYTZ is an associate professor of management and organizations at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

AMOS WINTER is the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Assistant Professor and the director of the Global Engineering and Research Laboratory in the department of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.