Rashi Glazer is a professor at the Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley and co-director of the school’s management of technology program. He has also served as director of the Haas School’s Center for Executive Education and director of the Center for Marketing and Technology. He holds an MBA and a PhD from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and from 1982–1989 was on the faculty at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. Glazer’s teaching and research interests are in the areas of competitive marketing strategy, technology and information technology strategy, interactive and database marketing, e-commerce and consumer and managerial decision making. He was the founding co-editor of Journal of Interactive Marketing and an associate editor of Management Science. He has published articles in Marketing Science, Management Science, the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing and other leading publications and has co-authored three books: The Marketing Information Revolution, Readings On Market-Driving Strategies and Cable TV Advertising.

Glazer founded a communications company specializing in innovative applications of video technology and has consulted to and conducted executive education programs for numerous companies including Agilent, Arbor Health Care, AT&T, Autodesk, Baxter Labs, BEABellSouth, Boston Scientific, CBIS/Matrixx, Daimler-Chrysler, Deere & Co., Deluxe, Equitable Life, Exigen Group, Fairchild Semiconductor, Gemini Consulting, Genencorp, Genentech, Hakuhodo, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, Jones Day, Levi Strauss, MicroUnity Systems, MIPS, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Pacific Bell, Pacific Gas & Electric, SAP, SBC, Siemens, SmithKline, SUN Microsystems, Telegroup, Telekurs/Teknekron, Time, Inc., Toshiba, Trans Union, United Arab Emirates, Visa and Wells Fargo. He is the developer of the INFOVALUE program, for measuring the value of a firm's information, and SUITS, an interactive computer simulation for teaching the strategic use of information and the integration of information technology strategy with business strategy. Glazer has won several awards for teaching excellence at the MBA and Executive Education levels, including twice being named the Haas School's Best Teacher of the Year, and has been a finalist for the UC Berkeley Campus-Wide Distinguished Teacher Award.

Laura Kray is the Harold Furst Associate Professor of Management, Philosophy and Values and chair of the Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations Group at the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a doctorate in psychology from the University of Washington and has been on the Berkeley faculty since 2002. Kray is the author of numerous publications on topics pertaining to gender and negotiations; how counterfactual thinking, or thoughts about "what might have been" influence creative and analytical problem solving; team processes; and organizational justice. She is on the editorial board of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Kray specializes in the psychopathologies that affect decision making and negotiation. Among her studies are how an awareness of gender stereotypes can be used to influence performance in negotiations, and how to improve the quality of group decision making.

Prior to coming to Haas, Kray taught at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and the Eller College of Business at the University of Arizona. At Haas, she has taught a course on negotiations and conflict resolution in the daytime program and developed a new course on managing teams for the daytime and evening program. Kray has consulted for many for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, including Andersen Consulting, Deloitte & Touche, Microsoft, GE Medical Systems and Cisco Systems.

Kellie McElhaney is the John C. Whitehead Adjunct Professor and the executive director of the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She developed and launched the center in 2003, which has helped place corporate social responsibility (CSR) squarely as one of the core competencies and competitive advantages of the Haas School. The Wall Street Journal ranked Haas as the number two business school in the country for CSR in 2006 and 2007, and in 2008 The Financial Times rated Haas as number one in the world in CSR. McElhaney teaches courses on strategic CSR, which include in-depth, experiential consulting engagements with companies on real-world, high-visibility strategic CSR challenges, in all of the MBA degree programs at Haas. She also teaches extensively in this area in executive education programs. She was named a Faculty Pioneer by the Aspen Institute in 2005. Her research focus is in three areas: analyzing and developing companies’ CSR strategies and their alignment with core business objectives, core competencies and business value; exploring the linkage between diversity and CSR and using CSR as a hook to re-engage women with business as employees, consumers and investors; and the business value and opportunities in branding, communication and CSR, on which she is currently writing a book for publication in Fall 2008.

McElhaney consults to several Global 1000 companies in developing integrated CSR strategy, bridging her academic focus with the practitioner world. Her client list includes HP, Gap, eBay, McDonalds, Ernst & Young, NVIDIA, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Nokia (Finland), Navigant, Volunteer Match, Ford Motor Company, Bernard Hodes Group (Great Britain), PG&E, Driscolls, Triage Consulting Group and Ulster Bank (Ireland).

McElhaney is also a visiting professor at both the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (her alma mater) Kenan-Flagler School of Business, and the Institut d’Administration des Enterprises at the University de Poitiers in France.

McElhaney is a globally pre-eminent keynote speaker, workshop leader, corporate team leader and lecturer on CSR.

Kristiana Raube, PhD is an adjunct professor at the Haas School of Business and the executive director of the graduate program in health management at the University of California, Berkeley, a program that prepares students for leadership roles in all aspects of healthcare, including care delivery and financing, biotechnology and medical devices, information technology and consulting. Raube has worked to increase health management capacity through executive education and program development in the US and around the world, including China, India, Vietnam, Romania, Uganda, Lesotho, Togo and the Demographic Republic of the Congo, among others. Her research focuses on the delivery and financing of health services and she has evaluated a large number of health programs, including ones focused on physician payment, quality of care, access to care, infant mortality, and community-based health care. Raube holds a doctorate in public policy from the RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies, a Masters in public health from UCLA and a BA in biology from the University of Colorado.

Dr. Steven Weber is professor of political science at UC Berkeley, where he directs the multi-disciplinary campus-wide Institute of International Studies. He is also an associate with the International Computer Science Institute, an affiliated faculty of the Energy and Resources Group and nonresident senior fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communications at USC. His research and consulting work for the last decade have focused on the political economy of knowledge-intensive industries, with special attention to healthcare, information technology, software and global trade issues. He is also a frequent contributor to scholarly and public debates on US foreign policy.

Weber holds an MD from the Stanford Medical School and a PhD in political science, also from Stanford. He served as special consultant to the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and has held academic fellowships with the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Over the last 15 years Weber has consulted with multinational companies, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations on risk analysis, strategy and business forecasting in the areas of international political risk, technology and global economic change.

His most recent book, The Success of Open Source, is the leading study of the political economy of the open source software community. He is the also the author of Cooperation and Discord in US–Soviet Arms Control, the editor of Globalization and the European Political Economy, and has written numerous articles in academic and popular publications about international political economy, globalization, emerging security issues, etc. (most recently, “How Globalization Went Bad,” in Foreign Policy 2007, and “A World Without the West,” The National Interest summer 2007). With co-author Jonathan Sallet, Weber is currently writing a book on how to implement the principles of “openness” in business strategy and government policy across four critical economic sectors: telecommunications, software, pharmaceuticals and media; and with co-author Bruce Jentleson, a book on how to best position the US for a coming era of global competition.

Dr. Peter Wilton teaches strategy, marketing and international management at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He has also served as a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and on the faculties of Duke and Purdue Universities in the US; Macquarie Graduate School of Management, the University of Melbourne; and the Australian Graduate School of Management in Australia; as well as the executive programs of the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago and The Pennsylvania State University.

Wilton has received numerous awards and fellowships for his work in management, including several from the prestigious National Science Foundation, and the Marketing Science Institute. He has been the recipient of the Australian Overseas Fellowship in Management and the Market Research Society of Australia Prize. In the US, he has been recognized by Business Week magazine as one of the country’s leading business instructors. He also has been recognized in the "Who's Who" Registry of Leading American Executives. Most recently, Wilton received recognition from the International Society for Performance Improvement for “outstanding instructional intervention”. Wilton has published widely, his articles on management appearing in numerous leading journals, including the Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science, the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Retailing, the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, European Research and elsewhere.

In addition to his teaching activities, through his private consulting company known as ORBIS Associates, Wilton provides a range of strategic management and executive development services to a list of clients representing diverse industries and regions of the world. As a specialist focus, Dr. Wilton actively assists organizations to develop more effective customer loyalty strategies and profitability through the design and deployment of integrated customer experience architectures. As an educator, Wilton has collaborated with a variety of international professional bodies to design and deliver executive development initiatives that enrich the organization's membership.

Wilton began his professional career with Colgate Palmolive (Australia) Pty Ltd, where over a period of several years he managed a variety of established household products groups and new businesses. He has also served as chief operating officer for Myer Pacific Holdings NV, a private equity firm holding a portfolio of controlling, pro-active, investments in companies ranging from digital imaging technology to laser cutting machinery for the heavy engineering industry.

Wilton has served as an officer of the San Francisco professional chapter of the American Marketing Association, responsible for all professional development programs, and as a director of the Australian-American Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (1st Class Honors) from the University of New South Wales in Australia and a PhD in management from Purdue University.