Personal Insights and Savvy Advice
The ideas, research, strategies and tactics are all derived from leading authors and expert practitioners in core talent management disciplines.
Douglas A. Ready
Douglas A. Ready is Founder and President of ICEDR (The International Consortium for Executive Development Research), an international, partnership-driven alliance of approximately 35 leading global corporations and 20 of the world’s top business schools, focusing on building leadership and organizational effectiveness. Doug is also serving as Visiting Professor at London Business School.
Prior to this appointment he was a dean and faculty member at Boston University, Babson College, and MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Doug has written more than 25 articles on leadership development, change management, and top team effectiveness. He also authored the ICEDR book Champions of Change and edited the book In Charge of Change. He holds an M.P.A. in Management from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a Ph.D. in Global Leadership Studies from Cranfield School of Management in the U.K.
John W. Boudreau
Professor and Research Director at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and Center for Effective Organizations, John Boudreau is recognized worldwide for breakthrough research on the bridge between superior human capital, talent and sustainable competitive advantage. He is a co-author of Beyond HR: The New Science of Human Capital (Harvard Business School Press, 2007), which shows how organizations can strategically differentiate their HR practices and metrics to create value.
John has published more than 50 books and articles, which appear in such scholarly journals as Management Science, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resource Management, and Journal of Human Resources Costing and Accounting. Features on his work have appeared in Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Fast Company and Business Week, among others. John holds an undergraduate degree in business from New Mexico State University, a master’s degree in management and Ph.D. in industrial relations from Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management.
Boris Groysberg
Boris Groysberg is an Assistant Professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at the Harvard Business School, and teaches the “Managing Human Capital” course in the MBA program. His research focuses on the challenges of managing professional service firms, and how a firm can be systematic in achieving a sustainable competitive advantage by leveraging its employees.
Boris has won, for two consecutive years, the Strategic Management Society PhD Fellowship (Booz Allen Hamilton/SMS fellow) for his research on talent management. He holds a DBA in Business Policy from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in accounting from New York University. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, he worked at IBM.
Thomas J. DeLong
Thomas J. DeLong is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice in the Organizational Behavior area at the Harvard Business School. Before joining the Harvard faculty, Tom was Chief Development Officer and Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Group, Inc., where he focused on issues of organizational strategy regarding people, organizational change and globalization.
Tom has co-authored the article "Let's Hear It For B Players" in the Harvard Business Review and the books Professional Services: Cases and Texts (McGraw-Hill/Irwin 2003), and When Professionals Have to Lead: A New Model for High Performance (Harvard Business School Press, 2007), which introduces a new leadership model for professional service firms. He received his undergraduate and master degrees from Brigham Young University, and his Ph.D. from Purdue University in Industrial Supervision.
Tamara J. Erickson
Tammy Erickson is a McKinsey Award-winning author and widely respected expert on organizations and the changing workforce. Her research focuses on the shifting relationship between individuals and corporations, and on enhancing innovation and workforce productivity. She is President of The Concours Institute, a firm supporting senior executives with leading-edge ideas, innovative custom education, and pragmatic business applications.
Tammy has co-authored three Harvard Business Review articles as well as the book Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent (Harvard Business School Press, 2006). Her latest book, Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation (Harvard Business School Press, 2008), gives employees of the Baby Boomer generation approaches to renegotiating their relationship with work. Tammy holds a BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Chicago and a MBA from Harvard Business School.