Michele J. Gelfand is the John H. Scully Professor of Cross-Cultural Management and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Professor of Psychology by Courtesy. Gelfand uses field, experimental, computational and neuroscience methods to understand the evolution of culture and its multilevel consequences. She has won numerous awards for her scholarship and been published in outlets such as Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, among others. Gelfand is the founding co-editor of the Advances in Culture and Psychology series at Oxford Unviersity Press and the author of Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire the World.
Miriam Erez is Professor Emeritus in Organizational Psychology and Management, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology . She is the Vice Dean of the MBA program and Founder, and Chair of the Knowledge Center for Innovation, Technion. Erez's research areas are innovation and entrepreneurship, cross-cultural, global organizational behavior, and work motivation. She has authored two books, co-edited four books, and published over 100 journal papers and book chapters. She serves as the Vice-Dean of the Academy of Management Fellows Group.