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Russell L. Ackoff is the Anheuser Busch Professor Emeritus of management science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Ackoff has authored over 20 books and 250 articles, and has conducted research for more than 300 corporations and government agencies. His most recent book is Re-Creating the Corporation, Oxford University Press, (1999)
 
Russell L. Ackoff
Ackoff Publications List
Leadership and Strategy
Ackoff Interview with Technos Quarterly
Haynesnetwork Realvideo Interview With Russell Ackoff
 

Vince Barabba is the general manager of General Motors Corporate Strategy and Knowledge Development and is responsible for overseeing GM's New Business Development Network. Prior to coming to GM he held positions at Eastman Kodak and Xerox and twice served as director of the U. S. Bureau of the Census. He served as president of the American Statistical Association, U.S. repr esentative to the Population Commission of the United Nations and chaired the National Research Council Panel to review the statistical program of the National Center for Education Statistics.
 
Vince Barabba
Barabba Interview
Census Historian Interview
 

Joseph Bordogna is the Alfred Fitler Moore professor of engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, was a past Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the National Science Foundation and served previously as head of NSF's Directorate for Engineering.

He received the B.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the S.M. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As well as his assignment at NSF, his career includes experience as a line officer in the U.S. Navy, a practicing engineer in industry, and a professor.

He has made contributions to the engineering profession in a variety of areas including early laser communications systems, electro-optic recording materials, holographic television playback systems, and early space capsule recovery. He was a founder of PRIME (Philadelphia Regional Introduction for Minorities to Engineering) and served on the Board of The Philadelphia Partnership for Education, community coalitions providing, respectively, supportive academic programs for K-12 students and teachers.

Jack Purnell is Executive in Residence in the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

He is a retired executive from Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., where he has served in many capacities, most recently as Executive Vice President and a member of the Anheuser-Busch Strategy Committee as well as the three-person Corporate Executive Office.

A native of Maryland, Purnell received a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and received a master of business administration degree "with distinction" from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, Universit y of Pennsylvania, in 1965.

Ray Stata is one of the founders of Analog Devices in 1965, and served as President of the company from 1971 to 1991 and CEO from 1973 to November of 1996. He has been Chairman of the Board since 1973 and continues to serve in this capacity.

Mr. Stata is a founder and first President of the Massachusetts High Technology Council and is currently a member of MHTC's Board of Directors. He was also a founder of the Center for Quality of Management in 1989 and currently serves as its Chairma n. In 1994, he was invited to serve on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Board of Overseers.

He holds a BSEE and MSEE from MIT, is Chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and is a member of MIT's Executive Committee. In 1984 he was elected a member of the MIT Corporation and in 198 7-1988 served as President of the MIT Alumni Association.

Jerry Wind is Lauder Professor and Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the fou nding director of the Wharton "think tank" -- the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management. He has served as founding director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies and as the founding director of the Wharton Cent er for International Management Studies. Dr. Wind chaired the Wharton committees that designed the Wharton Executive MBA (WEMBA) Program (1974), the radically new MBA curriculum (1991), and most recently, the committee that developed the School's globaliz ation strategy (1995-96) and is leading its implementation (1996-97). He also started the Wharton International Forum (1987) and serves as the chairman of its faculty council. He joined the Wharton staff in 1967, upon receipt of his doctorate from Stanford University.