HBR IdeaCast

Dan McGinn, HBR senior editor and author of the article "Too Many Pivots, Too Little Passion."

Matt Dixon, director at Corporate Executive Board and coauthor of the HBR article "The End of Solutions Sales."

Sally Ride, former NASA astronaut and founder of Sally Ride Science.

Susan Cain, author of "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking."

Andrew Zolli, director of PopTech and coauthor of "Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back."

Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind, authors of "Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations."

Sallie Krawcheck, former president of Bank of America Global Wealth & Investment Management and author of the HBR article "Four Ways to Fix Banks."

Don Thompson, economist and author of "Oracles: How Prediction Markets Turn Employees into Visionaries."

Michael Schrage, research fellow at MIT Sloan School's Center for Digital Business and author of the HBR Single "Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become?"

Charles Duhigg, reporter for The New York Times and author of "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business."

Grant McCracken, anthropologist and author of "Culturematic: How Reality TV, John Cheever, a Pie Lab, Julia Child, Fantasy Football . . . Will Help You Create and Execute Breakthrough Ideas."

Marcus Buckingham, founder of TMBC and author of "StandOut."

Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever.

Daniel Gross, columnist and economics editor for Yahoo! Finance and author of "Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline . . . and the Rise of a New Economy."

Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and author of "Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World."