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Tom Chappell, co-founder and former CEO of Tom's of Maine, is an entrepreneur, environmentalist, philanthropist, author, and family man. Under his leadership and commitment to Tom's of Maine's core values, the company grew to become the leading natural personal care company in the United States. Chappell has authored two books on business ethics, *The Soul of a Business: Managing for Profits and the Common Good*, and *Managing Upside Down: The Seven Intentions of Values-Centered Leadership*.

Mexican singing sensation Lila Downs burst on to the music scene with her stunning performance of a song from the film *Frida* at the 75th annual Academy Awards. But this native of the Mexican state of Oaxaca has made music all of her life. Downs, the daughter of a Mixtec-Amerindian mother and a US filmmaker/academic father, started singing Mariachi music at the age of 8, and began a formal music education at the age of 14. She recently released her fourth album, *Una Sangre* to many accolades. *Billboard* magazine describes her as "one of the most spellbinding voices to grace the world music scene."

**Amir D. Aczel** is the author of numerous nonfiction books, including the international bestseller *Fermat's Last Theorem*, which was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Award and has been translated into 22 languages. Aczel has appeared on more than 30 television programs, including nationwide appearances on the CBS Evening News, CNN, CNBC, and Nightline, and on more than a hundred and fifty radio programs, including NPR's *Weekend Edition* and *Morning Edition*. Aczel is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Rosanne Cash is an author, a Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter, and the daughter of country music singer Johnny Cash.

Harold Varmus, MD, is the 1989 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine, the president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and the science advisor to President Obama.

Jacob Varmus is a jazz trumpeter, composer, and leader of the Jacob Varmus Quintet.

Richard Rhodes is the 1986 Pulitzer Prize winning author of *The Making of the Atomic Bomb*.

Joel Pett is a cartoonist for *The Lexington Herald-Leader*.

Peter Kadzis joined the *Boston Phoenix* as Associate Editor in 1988, became editor in 1989, and was named Executive Editor of the Phoenix Media/Communications Group in 2004. He assumed responsibility for all content and operation at its three newspapers, various magazines, and websites. Mr. Kadzis is also a political commentator on *Fox 25 News*. Mr. Kadzis’ newspaper career includes work at the *Boston Globe*, the *Providence Journal*, *New York Daily News*, *Money Magazine*, and *Forbes*. He has covered a variety of topics including breaking news, politics, Wall Street, and the economy. Mr. Kadzis also worked as an editorial advisor to the *Boston Business Journal* before founding its companion publication, the *Providence Business News*. Under Kadzis’s leadership, the Phoenix has been awarded the Pulitzer for Criticism and the National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism. Kadzis in 2002 and 2009 won NEPA’s award for Distinguished Editorial Writing.

Suji Kwock Kim was educated at Yale College; the Iowa Writers' Workshop; Seoul National University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar; and Stanford University, where she was a Stegner Fellow. Her first book of poems, *Notes from the Divided Country* (Louisiana State University Press, 2003) was chosen by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2002 Walt Whitman Award. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, as well as The Nation/ "Discovery" Award and grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, California Arts Council, Washington State Artist Trust, Korea Foundation and Blakemore Foundation for Asian Studies. Private Property, a multimedia play she co-wrote, was produced at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and was featured on BBC-TV.

Ifeanyi Menkiti teaches courses in the area of Medical Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy and Literature, and African Philosophy at Wellesley College. He joined the faculty in 1973. He was born in Onitsha, Nigeria and studied at Pomona College from which he received a BA in 1964. He subsequently earned an M.S. from Columbia University (1965), an MA from New York University (1968), and a PhD from Harvard in 1974. He has published articles on philosophical issues in such journals as *The Philosophical Forum*, *The Journal of Value Inquiry*, *The Harvard Educational Review*, and *The Journal of the American Academy of Religion*. Professor Menkiti is also a poet whose writing has been aired on National Public Radio. He received a poetry award from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts in 1978. He has published three volumes: *Affirmations* (1971), *The Jubilation of Falling Bodies* (1978), and *Of Altair, the Bright Light* (2005). He is the owner of the historic Grolier Poetry Bookshop in Harvard Square.

Sydney Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School at Dartmouth College, where he teaches courses on Leadership and Strategy. He teaches executive education at the Tuck School (where he serves as the Faculty Director of the flagship Tuck Executive Program), and also has experience working with executives at Northwestern, Wharton, Duke, Bocconi, London Business School, Australian Graduate School of Management, Melbourne Business School, Hanoi School of Business, the Chalmers School (Sweden) and the Helsinki School of Economics. He holds degrees from Concordia University and the London School of Economics, as well as a PhD from Columbia University in strategic management. Professor Finkelstein has conducted extensive research on strategic leadership and corporate governance, and published numerous articles in the major journals in his field. He is an expert on mergers and acquisitions, executive decision-making, executive compensation, and boards of directors. His book, *Strategic Leadership: Top Executives and Their Effects on Organizations*, was a finalist for the Academy of Management’s Terry Book Award in 1998. His article on power dynamics within top management teams was ranked as the number one publication by academicians in strategic leadership in the first half of the 1990s.