Professor Buell is faculty chair of the Achieving Breakthrough Service Executive Education program, and has also taught the Technology and Operations Management course in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Buell received the Charles M. Williams Award for outstanding teaching in 2016.

Dr. Edmondson’s research examines leadership, learning, and innovation in teams and organizations. Her book Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy, emphasizes managing the activities that enable collaborative work across boundaries. She is the author of more than 25 Harvard Business School case studies.

Professor Koehn’s research focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders, past and present, craft lives of purpose, worth, and impact. Her book, Forged in Crisis: The Making of Five Legendary Leaders, unpacks the most important lessons from the journeys of Abraham Lincoln, Ernest Shackleton, Rachel Carson, and others.

Professor Schlesinger served as president of Babson College from 2008 to 2013, and has held a number of key executive and operating positions, ending as Vice Chairman and COO of Limited Brands. He has lectured and consulted on strategy, service quality, customer satisfaction, entrepreneurship, HR, and organizational change for more than 250 corporations, organizations, and governments around the world.