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 Fellows

The Diamond Fellows are a world-class network of experts who provide clients with a broad range of perspectives on engagements and interactions throughout the year. Their focused expertise and unbiased opinions serve as a catalyst for launching innovative thought leadership, resulting in breakthrough strategies and solid businesses.

As a behavioral economist, Dan Ariely studies how people actually act in the marketplace, as opposed to how they should or would perform if they were completely rational. His interests span a wide range of daily behaviors such as buying (or not), saving (or not), ordering food in restaurants, pain management, procrastination, dishonesty, and decision making under different emotional states.

Vincent P. Barabba is the chairman of Market Insight Corporation and the Synthesis Alliance. He retired in 2003 as the general manager of corporate strategy and knowledge development at General Motors Corporation where he was responsible for overseeing corporate strategic planning and the Business Decision Support Center.

Gordon Bell has been a principal researcher with the Microsoft eSciences Research Group in San Francisco, California since 1995, and is currently a visiting professor at Macquarie University's Institute for Innovation in Sydney, Australia. At Microsoft, he is involved in "lifelogging" or storing everything an individual has experienced in his lifetime. 

Daniel Bricklin is founder and president of Software Garden, Inc., a small consulting firm and developer of software applications. Products he personally developed at Software Garden include the wikiCalc Open Source web-spreadsheet and the Dan Bricklin's Demo Program prototyping tool. He is a frequent speaker and commentator on the software industry, software development, and innovation. 

Linda Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration in the organizational behavior area at the Harvard Business School. She is unit chair of organizational behavior, faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative, and she has chaired numerous HBS executive education programs including the Young Presidents' Organization, Presidents' Seminar, and the High Potentials Program.

Alan Kay is one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces. His contributions have been recognized with the Charles Stark Draper Prize of the National Academy of Engineering "for the vision, conception, and development of the first practical networked personal computers,"... 

Andrew Lippman has spent the last forty years at MIT in capacities ranging from undergraduate to professor to senior research scientist. He has never had to look for a job in his life. He received his bachelor and master of science degrees from MIT, and a Ph.D. from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland while on leave from MIT.

Chunka Mui is an independent author, lecturer, and business advisor. He has deep insight on the breakthrough possibilities at the intersection of business and technology. At the same time, he has pragmatic appreciation of the challenges in harnessing such opportunities.

David Reed helped develop the fundamental protocols of the internet known as TCP/IP. He was chief scientist at Lotus Development Corp. and currently holds joint appointments at the MIT Media Lab and HP Labs.

Larry Smarr is the founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology and Harry E. Gruber professor in the Jacobs School's Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD. Dr. Smarr is principal investigator on the NSF OptIPuter LambdaGrid project and is Co-PI on the NSF LOOKING ocean observatory prototype.

Marvin Zonis, a political economist and professor emeritus of the University of Chicago, and helps organizations identify, assess, and manage their political risks in the global environment. His recent book, The Kimchi Matters, uncovers important misperceptions of globalization.