ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Alan G. Robinson is an award-winning author, an educator, and a consultant. He is co-author of Corporate Creativity, which was a finalist for the Financial Times/Booz Allen & Hamilton Global Best Business Book Award, and was named “Book of the Year” by the Academy of Human Resource Management. He has a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University and a B.A./M.A. from the University of Cambridge. He teaches at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Dr. Robinson has advised more than a hundred companies and government agencies in eleven countries.

Dean M. Schroeder is the Herbert and Agnes Schulz Professor of Management at Valparaiso University. Prior to entering academe, he founded and led two companies, and as an outside CEO, led the turnaround of a third. He is the author of more than sixty articles and papers, several of which have received national awards. He served for five years on the Board of Examiners of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and is on the Board of Directors of the American Creativity Association. He has a Ph.D. in Strategic Management and a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and an M.B.A. from the University of Montana. Dr. Schroeder has advised companies all over the world in the management of technology, strategic management, and the management of ideas and change.

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