Managing Columnists

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Beverly Behan

Beverly Behan is the managing director of the Board Effectiveness Practice of the Hay Group and co-author of Building Better Boards: A Blueprint for Effective Governance. Over the past decade she has worked with more than 75 boards on effectiveness issues including board and director evaluation, CEO succession planning, and board leadership. She also coaches CEOs on working with their boards. She can be reached at beverly.behan@haygroup.com.

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Jim Champy

Jim Champy is chairman of Perot Systems Corporation's consulting practice and head of strategy for the company. His latest book is Outsmart!: How To Do What Your Competitors Can't. Champy is also the author of the 3 million-copy international best-seller, Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution, as well as Reengineering Management, X-engineering the Corporation, The Arc of Ambition, and Fast Forward. Champy earned a BS and MS degree in Civil Engineering from MIT, as well as a JD from Boston College Law School, and lives in Boston.

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Ram Charan

Ram Charan, co-author of the international best-seller Execution and an adviser to business leaders and corporate boards worldwide, is the author of Leaders at all Levels: Deepening Your Talent Pool to Solve the Succession Crisis, to be published by Jossey-Bass in December, 2007.

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Kevin P. Coyne

Kevin P. Coyne is senior teaching professor at the Goizueta Business School of Emory University and a co-founder of The Coyne Partnership, a boutique consulting firm focused on top management and board issues. He was formerly a senior partner at McKinsey & Co. He writes The Strategist monthly for BusinessWeek.com/Managing.

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Julie Daum

Julie Daum is practice leader for the North American Board Services Practice for Spencer Stuart, the leading executive search firm in the boardroom.

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Mark Foster

Mark Foster is Accenture's group chief executive—Management Consulting & Integrated Markets, with overall responsibility for the development of the company's management consulting capabilities. Mr. Foster leads Accenture's involvement with the World Economic Forum and he is also a member of the board of the International Business Leaders Forum of the Prince of Wales Trust, which supports business development in the developing world. Mr. Foster joined Accenture in 1983 and became a partner in 1994. He holds a degree in classics from Oxford University.

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Bruce Freed

Bruce F. Freed is executive director of the Center for Political Accountability. Karl J. Sandstrom of Perkins Coie is a former vice-chairman of the Federal Election Commission.

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Bill George

Bill George, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, is the author of two best-selling books, True North and Authentic Leadership. The former chairman and chief executive of Medtronic, he serves on the boards of ExxonMobil, Goldman Sachs, and Novartis.

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Lindsey Gerdes

Lindsey Gerdes is a staff editor for BusinessWeek, a position she assumed in June, 2006. Previously, Gerdes was an intern at Newsweek. She has done freelance assignments for Fortune Small Business. Gerdes is a graduate of Stanford University.

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Marshall Goldsmith

Marshall Goldsmith is the New York Times best-selling author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There—a Wall Street Journal No. 1 business book and Harold Longman Award winner for Business Book of the Year. His newest book, Succession: Are You Ready?, will be published by Harvard Business Press in February 2009. He can be reached at Marshall@MarshallGoldsmith.com, and he provides his articles and videos online at MarshallGoldsmithLibrary.com.

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William J. Holstein

In addition to writing Armchair MBA for BusinessWeek.com, William J. Holstein writes for The New York Times, Fortune, Corporate Board Member, Dealmaker, and Strategy + Business.

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G. Michael Maddock and Raphael Louis Viton

G. Michael Maddock is founding partner, and Raphael Louis Viton is president, of Maddock Douglas, a company that invents, brands and markets products for "companies driven by innovation".

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Joseph Daniel McCool

Joseph Daniel McCool is a writer, speaker, and consultant on executive recruiting and corporate management succession best practices. He is the author of Deciding Who Leads: How Executive Recruiters Drive, Direct & Disrupt the Global Search for Leadership Talent, a book exploring the global executive search consulting business and its impact on corporate leadership, executive compensation, and organizational culture and performance. It has been recognized as "one of the 30 best business books of 2008" by Soundview Executive Book Summaries and as a top pick by Business Book Review.

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Nikos Mourkogiannis

A leadership consultant, Nikos is author of the book Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies and can be reached at Nikosonline.com.

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Thomas J. Neff

Thomas J. Neff is chairman of Spencer Stuart U.S., a global executive recruiting firm. His consulting practice focuses on CEO and board of director consulting and searches.

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James O'Toole

James O'Toole is Daniels Distinguished Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Denver, and co-author (with Edward Lawler) of The New American Workplace. He was formerly executive director of the Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California, and executive vice-president of the Aspen Institute.

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Aileen Pincus

Aileen Pincus writes the "Speaking of Business" column for BusinessWeek.com's Managing channel. She is president of The Pincus Group Inc., an executive firm coaching firm that offers training in presentation, speech, media, and crisis communications.

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Kurt Ronn

Kurt Ronn is the president and founder of HRworks, a national recruitment firm that helps major companies acquire talent to build their organizations. He is a contributing columnist for BusinessWeek.com.

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Randall Rothenberg

Randall Rothenberg is the president and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the trade association for interactive marketing in the U.S. The IAB represents more than 300 leading interactive companies. Members are responsible for selling more than 86% of online advertising.

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John R. Ryan

John R. Ryan is president of the Center for Creative Leadership, a top-ranked, global provider of executive education. He previously served as chancellor of the State University of New York and superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. He was a pilot during a 35-year in the Navy, retiring as a vice-admiral.

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Liz Ryan

Liz Ryan is an expert on the new-millennium workplace, a former Fortune 500 HR executive, and the author of Happy About Online Networking: the Virtual-ly Simple Way to Build Professional Relationships. Liz speaks to audiences around the world about work, life and networking, and works with employers on attracting and retaining world-class talent.

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Dov Seidman

Dov Seidman is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of LRN, a company that helps businesses develop ethical corporate cultures and inspire principled performance, and the author of HOW: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything…in Business (and in Life). LRN recently announced the acquisition of leading green strategy firm, GreenOrder.

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Harold L. Sirkin

Harold Sirkin is the global leader of Boston Consulting Group's operations practice. He is co-author of Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation, published by Harvard Business School Press. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS in accounting and finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Sirkin is a columnist for Asia Insight.

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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld is the Senior Associate Dean of the Yale School of Management for Executive Programs and Lester Crown Professor of Management Practice as well as co-author of Firing Back: How Great Leaders Overcome Career Disasters. He can be reached at jeffrey.sonnenfeld@yale.edu.

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Rick Wartzman

Rick Wartzman is the director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University. He is also an Irvine senior fellow at the New America Foundation. He spent the first 20 years of his career as a reporter, editor, and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times. His new book, Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, is set to be published by PublicAffairs in September.

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Michael Watkins

Michael Watkins professor of general management at IMD (www.imd.ch) in Lausanne, Switzerland, and co-founder of Genesis Advisers (www.genesisadvisers.com), a leadership development consulting firm. He is the author of The First 90 Days and co-author of Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming and How to Prevent Them.

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Bruce Weinstein

Bruce Weinstein, Ph.D. is the corporate consultant and public speaker known as The Ethics Guy. He has appeared on "The Today Show," "Good Morning America," "Anderson Cooper 360," "American Morning," and many other national television shows. His column, "The Ethics Guy," appears every other week on businessweek.com/managing/.

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Shoshana Zuboff

Shoshana Zuboff is the author of The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism. She was the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

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