Will Mitchell joined The Fuqua School of Business faculty at Duke University in 2001. He earned a PhD in Business at the University of California at Berkeley and a BBA at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Before joining Fuqua, he was a faculty member of the University of Michigan Business School.

He is associate editor of the Strategic Management Journal and Management Science, and is on the editorial board of several other academic journals. He is active in the Strategic Management Society and Academy of Management.

Dr. Mitchell has extensive teaching experience; he teaches MBA courses in corporate strategy, business change, pharmaceutical strategy, alliance strategy, and manufacturing strategy, as well as PhD courses in strategy and research methods.

In addition, he studies business dynamics, focusing on how businesses overcome constraints to change and, in turn, how business changes influence performance. His current research projects investigate business changes in several international industrial sectors, including the medical, trucking, telecommunications, auto, and retail sectors.

Kevin Schulman, MD, MBA, is a professor of medicine and the Gregory Mario and Jeremy Mario Professor of Business Administration at Duke University. He currently holds several faculty and leadership appointments at the university. He is an associate director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute at the School of Medicine, at 1300 people the country's largest academic clinical research organization.

At Duke's Fuqua School of Business, he served for over a decade as director of the Health Sector Management (HSM) program, the Master of Management in Clinical Informatics (MMCi), and the Center for the Study of Health Management. His other university affiliations include the Duke Translational Medicine Institute and the Duke Global Health Institute.

Dr. Schulman has published nearly 400 papers and book chapters; his peer-reviewed articles have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Annals of Internal Medicine. He is a member of the editorial/advisory boards of the American Journal of Medicine, American Heart Journal, and Health Services Research.

A recipient of numerous awards, Dr. Schulman is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. He is a past voting member of the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee. He is the founding president of the Business School Alliance for Health Management (BAHM-Alliance.org), a consortium of the leading business schools offering health management programs.

Bill Shannon serves as Director, Organizational Learning at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, part of the Duke University School of Medicine. In 2002, Bill started the first best practices system for service improvement/patient satisfaction that feeds Duke Medicine's Balanced Scorecard and was in charge of seven departments at Duke Hospital. He is a recipient of Duke Hospital's Diversity Leadership award.

Leaving Duke for six years, Bill was SVP and Chief Wisdom Officer at DaVita, a Fortune 500 healthcare services company. He was responsible for the corporate university, internal communications company-wide, film production, and all major company meetings. Bill was part of strategic teams in Culture, Marketing, PR, Diversity, Physician Communications, Facility Design and Acquisitions.

Both Duke and DaVita got to know Bill through his 20-year career at Disney. He worked at Walt Disney Imagineering helping create vacation experiences, resorts and new businesses, working in Florida and California. One of his projects was the Disney Institute that consults with organizations worldwide. Duke University was among his clients.

He is past Chairman of the Board of Directors for the nonprofit American Council on Exercise and currently serves on a Patient-Centered Care advisory council for ISQUA, the International Society for Quality in Healthcare.

Mohan Venkatachalamis a Professor of Accounting at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and is the Faculty Director for the Kazakhstan initiative at Fuqua. Professor Venkatachalam received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1996 and was granted the Chartered Accountancy degree (equivalent of a CPA) by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in 1987. He has worked for several years as an Accountant and Internal Auditor in India and the Middle East.

Professor Venkatachalam was a member of the faculty at Stanford University prior to joining Duke, and has taught Financial Accounting, Financial Analysis and Executive Compensation at the University of Iowa, Stanford University and Duke University. His research interests span several areas including implications of managerial communication, financial and nonfinancial metrics for compensation and valuation, effect of accounting disclosures on valuation, derivatives and corporate governance issues. His research is cross-disciplinary in that it overlaps with other disciplines such as Finance, Strategy and Psychology.

His most recent work involves the role of verbal and nonverbal managerial communication in financial markets. His research has appeared in several academic journals including Journal of Finance, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, Journal of Business, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, and the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance. Currently, he serves on the editorial board of the Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of Accounting, Finance and Law.