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Dolly Chugh Social Science Researcher, Professor of Management & Organizations at NYU and Expert on Psychological Safety
Dolly Chugh is an award-winning tenured professor at the New York University Stern School of Business. She stu... Read More
Category: Business Speakers , Professors , Leadership Speakers
Dr. Cornel West Provocative Public Intellectual & Groundbreaking Author
Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is Professor of the Practice of Public... Read More
Category: Authors , Professors , Diversity Speakers
Dr. Eric Maskin Professor of Economics at Harvard and Nobel Laureate
Eric Maskin is the Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Harvard. He has ma... Read More
Category: Professors , Economy and Finance Speakers
Frances Frei Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Service Management at the Harvard Business School; Best-Selling Author
Frances Frei is Senior Associate Dean, Director of Faculty Planning and Recruiting and UPS Foundation Professo... Read More
Category: Authors , Professors
Francesca Gino Behavioral Scientist & Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School
Francesca Gino is an associate professor of business administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Ma... Read More
Category: Business Speakers , Professors , Leadership Speakers
Heather Cox Richardson Publisher of Letters From An American and American History Professor at Boston College
Professor Richardson offers undergraduate and graduate courses in nineteenth-century American history. Her ear... Read More
Category: Professors , Historians
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Professor and Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois... Read More
Category: Professors , Diversity Speakers , Top Black Keynote Speakers
Jacques Attali French Economist, Business Leader
Professor, writer, special advisor to François Mitterand, Founder and first president of the European Bank for... Read More
Category: Business Speakers , Professors , Economy and Finance Speakers
Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs & Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies at Yale University’s School of Management a... Read More
Category: Professors
Jeffrey Pfeffer Stanford Professor & World-Renowned Management, Leadership and HR Scholar
He is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford U... Read More
Category: Professors , Leadership Speakers
Jeffrey Sachs World-Renowned Economics Professor and Leader in Sustainable Development
Jeffrey David Sachs was born on November 5, 1954. He is an American economist, scholastic, public policy analy... Read More
Category: Professors , Economy and Finance Speakers , Sustainability Speakers
Joseph Stiglitz Economist; Professor at Columbia University
Regarded as one of the best economic minds of his generation, Joseph E. Stiglitz is the winner of the 2001... Read More
Category: Professors , Economy and Finance Speakers
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