Full Site Guru Interview Index

Rafiq Dossani is a senior research scholar at Shorenstein APARC, responsible for developing and directing the South Asia Initiative. In his new book India Arriving, Rafiq Dossani goes beneath the veil surrounding India and considers the many ways it has begun to emerge onto the world stage.

Stew Friedman has been a faculty member of the Wharton School since 1984. He became the Management Department's first Practice Professor in recognition of his work on the application of theory and research to the real challenges facing organizations. His new book Total Leadership is a game-changing blueprint for how to perform well as a leader.

Dr. Mwangi-Powell is the Director of the African Palliative Care Association. She has extensive experience in sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and palliative care, and her activities include working in advocacy issues and coordinating funding and support to programmes in Asia and Africa for the development of palliative care in the continent.

Wally Olins is Chairman of Saffron Brand Consultants. Find out why the identity management process should be viewed as a potentially powerful corporate resource.

In a world of emerging markets, changing work forces and accelerating innovation, manufacturing is once again a key corporate issue. Find out more in this interview with Booz & Company's Conrad Winkler.

Minor ethical lapses can seem harmless. But they instil in us a hard-to-break habit of distorted thinking. Find out more in this interview with the authors of Ethics for the Real World.

Kent Johnson is an in-house Senior Counsel at Texas Instruments Inc., specializing in the fields of antitrust, intellectual property, sales, marketing and advertising law, strategic alliances and other major business spheres. In this interview he discusses the role of in-house lawyers in the benchmarking process.

Mark Gottfredson is a director of Bain & Company's office in Dallas, which he founded in 1990. Steve Schaubert is a director in the Boston office. He joined the firm in 1979 and was elected to the partnership in 1980. In this interview, Gottfredson & Schaubert talk to Emerald about how the best managers get outstanding results.

Robert Camp is a leading authority on benchmarking and its use to obtain best practice knowledge and superior performance. He is the Principal of the Best Practice Institute, an international research, education and consultancy organization focused on the capture, exchange and adoption of worldwide best practices through benchmarking.

David Connell has been a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge since 2006. He was previously founding Chief Executive of TTP Ventures, a venture capital fund specializing in early stage science and technology-based ventures with funding from Boeing, Siemens and financial institutions.

In the USA, David Gumpert is a nationally known writer on professional services and entrepreneurship, where he writes extensively for Business Week.com and The Nation. Formally an editor with The Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review, he has authored and co-authored eight books on various aspects of business planning and starting a business, including How to Really Start Your Own Business.

Omar Khan has lived in Pakistan, Germany, the US, UK, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, Japan, Dubai, Singapore and Sri Lanka. His father was an Ambassador for Pakistan, and he was educated both at Oxford University and then Stanford Law School. He worked with some of the original research team that developed Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).

Jim Champy revolutionized business with his book Reengineering the Corporation. Here he speaks to Emerald about how companies must innovate beyond process and find totally new ways of doing business.

Randall White is a principal in the Executive Development Group LLC, based in Greensboro, North Carolina, and an adjunct instructor for Duke University's Corporate Education Program in Durham, North Carolina and London. Here, he talks about linking new product development to a company's strategic realities.

Based in London, Dr. Nick Evans is a Vice President and Member of the Board of SRI Consulting Business Intelligence Inc. (SRIC-BI). He is Director of SRIC-BI's Explorer service which helps companies and governments evaluate commercial opportunities arising from technology developments across a broad spectrum.

Kevin Dean is the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) Managing Director of Connected Health. He has experience in numerous aspects of health IT strategy and execution. In this interview he discusses the concept of "Connected Health", the benefits of ICT in healthcare, and the barriers to technology adoption.

Ranked as #12 in the Thinkers 50 list of the world's most important and influential business thinkers, Robert Kaplan & David Norton speak to Emerald about their latest work The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage.

During his thirty years in organizational development and training, Harold S. Resnick has earned international recognition as a leading authority and innovator in organizational transformation and leadership development. He has consulted with hundreds of private and public sector companies in North and South America, Europe and the Middle East.

Brian Plowman is a founding partner and Managing Director of the UK-based management consultancy Develin & Partners. With a focus on cost management and implementation techniques to add corporate value, he has worked with clients including the Royal Bank of Scotland, Land Rover and Avon Rubber and City University.

While businesses have spent more than a trillion dollars on business management consulting and training in the past decade, research shows that a large majority of organizations are still failing to execute their strategies effectively...