David Dranove is the Walter McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management and Professor of Management and Strategy at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

He is the former chair of the Department of Management and Strategy and his current research and teaching focus is on problems in industrial organization and business strategy. He has published extensively in the fields of economics and strategy and his Wiley textbook, The Economics of Strategy, has netted almost 2 million Dollar since 1999.

He has published over seventy research papers in such journals as Management Science, The Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and Strategic Management Journal and has been profiled in Business Week online. His course on Value Creation Strategy is part of the continuing education program for INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and Management Science.) Finally, he consults regularly for leading private and public sector organizations about issues in strategic management and antitrust.

Sonia Marciano is Institute Fellow and Senior Lecturer at Michael Porter's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at the Harvard Business School. Prior to joining the Institute, Professor Marciano spent eight years as a Clinical Professor of Management and Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Strategy at the University of Chicago.

She is continuously involved with executive education programs for consulting and manufacturing firms. She also has taught strategy and economics for executive education programs in the U.S., Canada and Europe.