The Business Summit

Speakers

HBS is convening the world's leaders to discuss the pressing issues of the future. Confirmed speakers to date include:

Rawi Abdelal
Professor of Business Administration
Mark Addicks, MBA 1988
SVP & Chief Marketing Officer
General Mills, Inc.
Saad Hamad Al-Barrak, PMD 59 (1990)
Managing Director - Deputy Chairman
Zain Group
Saeed Al-Hajeri, SEPME 1 (2001)
Executive Director
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
Teresa Amabile
Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration
Nolan Archibald, MBA 1970
Chairman & CEO
The Black & Decker Co.
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
Chairman and Managing Director
Bajaj Auto Ltd.
Steven Barr
Founder and CEO
Green Dot Public Schools
Jim Barry, MBA 1994
Chief Executive
Ntr Plc
Nancy Barry, MBA 1975
President
Nancy Barry Associates - Enterprise Solutions to Poverty
David Bell
George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Senior Associate Dean, Director of Faculty Planning and Recruiting
David Blood, MBA 1985
Managing Partner
Generation Investment Management
Barry Bloom
Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health in the Faculty of Public Health; Dean of the Faculty of Public Health
Bradley Bloom, MBA 1979
Managing Director
Berkshire Partners LLC
David E. Bloom
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography; Chair, Department of Population and International Health
Joseph Bower, MBA 1961, DBA 1963
Baker Foundation Professor
Thierry Breton
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
James Breyer, MBA 1987
Partner
Accel Partners
James Cash
James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus
Honorable Palaniappan Chidambaram, MBA 1968
Finance Minister of India
Stacey Childress, MBA 2000
Lecturer of Business Administration, Senior Researcher
Ted Childs
Principal
Ted Childs LLC
Clayton Christensen, MBA 1979, DBA 1992
Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration
Michael Chu, MBA 1976
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
Kim Clark
President
Brigham Young University - Idaho
Sir Ronald Cohen, MBA 1969
Chairman
Portland Capital and The Portland Trust
James Colica
Senior Vice President
GE Capital Services
Bertrand Collomb
Director and Honorary Chairman
Lafarge
Scott Cook, MBA 1976
Founder & Chairman
Intuit Inc.
Carlos Labarthe Costas
Co-CEO
Compartamos Banco
Craig Coy, MBA 1983
President & COO
L-3 Communications
Christopher Crane, MBA 1976
President & CEO
Opportunity International Inc.
Arthur Cummings
Executive Assistant Director
FBI National Security Branch
Srikant Datar
Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Accounting, Senior Associate Dean, Director of Research
Susan Decker, MBA 1986
President
Yahoo! Inc.
Jamie Dimon, MBA 1982
Chairman & CEO
JPMorgan Chase
Rafael Di Tella
Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration
John Doerr, MBA 1976
Partner
Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
Honorable William Donaldson, MBA 1958
Chairman
Donaldson Enterprises Inc.
Donna Dubinsky, MBA 1981
Founder & CEO
Numenta, Inc.
Richard Edelman, MBA 1978
President & CEO
Edelman Public Relations Worldwide
Thomas Eisenmann
Professor of Business Administration
Paul Farmer
Founding Director
Partners in Health
Drew Faust
President, Lincoln Professor of History
Harvard University
Michael Fascitelli, MBA 1982
President
Vornado Realty Trust
Niall Ferguson
William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History
Paul Finnegan, MBA 1982
Co-CEO
Madison Dearborn Partners, Inc.
Congressman Barney Frank
Chairman of the Financial Services Committee
United States Congress
Ann Fudge, MBA 1977
Former Chairman and CEO
Young & Rubicam Brands
Victor Fung, PHD 1971
Group Chairman
Li & Fung Group
William Fung, MBA 1972
Group Managing Director
Li & Fung Limited
Orit Gadiesh, MBA 1977
Chairman
Bain & Company, Inc.
David Garvin
C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, Chair, MBA Elective Curriculum
Bill Gates
Co-Chair
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill George, MBA 1966
Professor of Management Practice
Nori Gerardo
Partner, Chief Strategist Private Real Estate Investment Management
Partners Group
Raymond Gilmartin
Professor of Management Practice
Robert Glauber , DBA 1965
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Ray Goldberg, MBA 1950
George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Emeritus
Stephen Goldsmith
Daniel Paul Professor of Government
Harvard Kennedy School
Allen Grossman
MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Management Practice
Jan Hammond
Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing, Director of Faculty Planning
Regina Herzlinger, DBA 1971
Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration
John Hess, MBA 1977
Chairman and CEO
Hess Corporation
William Hickey, MBA 1972
President and CEO
Sealed Air Corp
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Senior Policy Advisor
McCain-Palin 2008
Yoshi Hori, MBA 1991
CEO
Globis Management School
Allan Hubbard, MBA 1972
Chairman
E&A Industries, Inc.
Chet Huber
President
OnStar
Jeffrey Immelt, MBA 1982
Chairman & CEO
General Electric Company
Ratan Jalan, MBA 1985
CEO
Apollo Health and Lifestyle Ltd
Hamilton James, AMP 173 (2007)
President & COO
The Blackstone Group
Frans Johansson, MBA 2000
President
The Medici Group
Kevin Johnson
CEO & President
St HOPE Public Schools
Geoffrey Jones
Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Director of Research
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration
Robert Kaplan
Baker Foundation Professor
Manish Kejriwal , MBA 1995
Senior Managing Director
Temasek Holdings ( Private ) Ltd
Francis Kelly, MBA 1983
CEO
Arnold Worldwide
David Kenny, MBA 1986
Chair and CEO
Digitas
Tarun Khanna, PHDBE 1993
Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor
Rakesh Khurana,,
PHDBE 1998
Professor of Business Administration
Abraham Klink,
Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport
Netherlands Government
Jason Kilar,
MBA 1997
CEO
Hulu, LLC
Eric Kim, MBA 1981
Senior Vice President & General Manager
Intel Corporation
Jim Kim
Head of the Department of Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Ranch Kimball
President and CEO
Joslin Diabetes Clinic
William Kirby
Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies
Knut Kjaer,
AMP 165 (2003)
Former CEO
Norges Bank Investment Management
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
President
The Baupost Group
Boon Hwee Koh,
MBA 1976
Chairman
DBS Bank
Wendy Kopp
CEO & Founder
Teach for America
Srivatsa Krishna , MBA 2003
Indian Administrative Service, Government of India
CEO & Executive Director, Dubai World Group, South Asia
Raju Kucherlapati
Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics and Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Scientific Director
Philip Lader
Senior Advisor
Morgan Stanley
Ilene Lang, MBA 1973
President
Catalyst
Jorge Paulo Lemann
Chairman
Lemann Foundation
Dutch Leonard
Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration
Jay Light, DBA 1970
George F. Baker Professor of Administration, Dean of the Faculty
Marc Lipsitch
Professor of Epidemiology in the Faculty of Public Health
Robert Lufrano
Chairman of the Board and CEO
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida
Anand Mahindra, MBA 1981
Vice Chairman & Managing Director
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.
Scott Malkin, MBA 1983
Chairman
Value Retail PLC
Stephen Mandel, MBA 1982
Managing Director
Lone Pine Capital
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998
Founder & CEO
Care.com
Martin McAdam, AMP 166 (2004)
Chief Executive Officer
Aquamarine Power Limited
Michael McCallister
Chairman of the Board and CEO
Humana
James McCarthy
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography Harvard University
Warren McFarlan, MBA 1961, DBA 1965
Global Business Summit Faculty Chair, T.J. Dermot Dunphy Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
President & CEO
Rakuten Group, Inc
Tony Miller
Managing Director of Lemhi Ventures and CEO of Carol Corporation
Joel Milne, MBA 2004
CEO
Ivize
Nell Minow
Editor & Co-Founder
The Corporate Library
Youngme Moon
Professor of Business Administration
Ann Moore, MBA 1978
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Time Inc.
John Moore
Global Head of Healthcare, Managing Director
Morgan Stanley
Mark Moore
Hauser Professor of Nonprofit Organizations and Director of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Betsy Morgan, MBA 1995
CEO
The Huffington Post
Jennifer Moses, MBA 1989
Special Adviser to the Prime Minister
Government of the United Kingdom
David Moss
John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration
Frank Moss
Director, Professor of the Practice of Media Arts and Sciences & Jerome B. Wiesner Professorship of Media Technology
M.I.T.
David Murray
Chairman
Future Fund Board of Guardians
Ganesh Natarajan, AMP 169 (2005)
Chairman
Nasscom
Glen Nelson
Chairman
GDN Holdings
Frank Ning
Chairman
COFCO Ltd.
Dipchand Nishar, MBA 2000
Director, Product Management, Asia-Pacific
Google Inc.
Nitin Nohria
Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean, Director of Faculty Development
Mark Nunnelly, MBA 1984
Managing Director
Bain Capital Inc.
Michael Oxley
Of Council
Baker Hostetler
Christopher Pagett, AMP 168 (2005)
Senior Advisor, Emerging Markets
HSBC Investment Bank
Lynn Paine
John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration
Krishna Palepu
Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean for International Development
André Perold
George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking
Michael Porter, MBA 1971, PHDBE 1973 Bishop William Lawrence University Professor
Yingyi Qian
Dean, School of Economics and Management; Professor, Department of Economics
Tsinghua University; University of California, Berkeley
John Quelch, DBA 1977 Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean
V. Kasturi Rangan
Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, Director of Research
M.D. Ranganath
Chief Risk Officer
Infosys
Forest Reinhardt, MBA 1987
John D. Black Professor, Unit Head, Business, Government and the International Economy
Michelle Rhee
Chancellor
Washington DC Public Schools
Jan Rivkin, PHDBE 1997
Professor of Business Administration
James Robinson, MBA 1961
General Partner
RRE Ventures
Gustavo Roosen
Chairman
Envases Venezolanos S.A.
Charlie Rose
Journalist and Host of the Charlie Rose Show
William Sahlman, MBA 1975, PHDBE 1982
Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean for External Relations
Vicki Sato
Professor of Management Practice
Arthur Segel
Professor of Management Practice
M. Edward Sellers, MBA 1975
Chairman and CEO
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina
Devi Prasad Shetty
Chairman & Senior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore
Willy Shih
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
Jack Shonkoff
Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development Director
Center on the Developing Child Harvard University
Andrea Silbert, MBA 1991
President
Eos Foundation
Damon Silvers, MBA 1995
General Counsel's Office
American Federation of Labor and Co
Matthew Simmons, MBA 1967
Chairman
Simmons & Company International
S. Sivakumar
Chief Executive
ITC agri-business India
Stefan Spycher
Vice Director
Federal Office of Public Health, Switzerland
Howard Stevenson, MBA 1965, DBA 1969
Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor, Senior Associate Dean, Director of HBS Publishing
John M. Stropki
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc.
Toby Stuart
Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration
Lawrence H. Summers, PHD 1982, LLD 2007
Charles W. Eliot University Professor
Yong Tao
Chairman
SDR Group
Coen Teulings
Director
CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
David Thomas
H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean, Director of Faculty Recruiting, Unit Head, Organizational Behavior
Stefan Thomke, MBA 1977
William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration, Chair, MBA Required Curriculum
Andrew Tisch
Co-Chairman of the Board
Loews Corporation
Simpiwe Tshabalala
Chief Executive, Personal and Business Banking
Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd.
Daniel Vasella, PMD 57 (1989)
Chairman & CEO
Novartis
Richard H.K. Vietor
Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management, Senior Associate Dean
G. Richard Wagoner, MBA 1977
Chairman and CEO
General Motors Corporation
Alberto Weisser
CEO and Chairman of the Board
Bunge Limited
Peter Wendell, MBA 1976
Managing Director
Sierra Ventures
John Whitehead, MBA 1947
Chairman
The Goldman Sachs Foundation
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
President & CEO
eBay
Walter Willett
Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Chairman of the Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
James Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
Chairman
Wolfensohn & Company LLC
Marjorie Yang, MBA 1976
Chairman
The Esquel Group
George Yeo, MBA 1985
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Singapore
Philip Yeo, MBA 1976
Chairman
SPRING Singapore
David Yoffie
Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean, Chair, Executive Education
Jide Zeitlin, MBA 1987
President
The Keffi Group
Thomas Zeltner
Secretary of State for Health and Director-General of the Federal Office of Public Health, Switzerland
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
Chairman & CEO
Ayala Corporation
Barry Zubrow
Chief Risk Officer
JP Morgan Chase