In a downturn, more than ever, performance gains depend on more creative problem-solving. It’s time for organizations to get serious about teaching their people to innovate.

Chair:
Julia Hautz Professor of Strategic Management, University of Innsbruck

Speakers:
Simone Ahuja Intrapreneurship expert
Annika Steiber Director, Rendanheyi Silicon Valley Center
Philipp Herrmann CEO, BRYCK
Hiroshi Nishikawa Senior Director Technology Strategy Design Division, Technology Strategy Unit, Fujitsu
Lalit Karwa Head TCS PACE Europe

The perennial complaint of upper management is that “these new kids don’t want to work.” Probably the differences in expectations run much deeper.

Chair:
Sharon Olivier Professor of Practice in Leadership, Hult EF Corporate Education

Speakers:
Rahaf Harfoush Digital Anthropologist
Marine Hadengue Executive Director, Higher Education for Good Foundation
Dewi Schoenbeck VP German Speaking Markets, Steelcase
Andreas Fröhlich CHRO, GoStudent
Berta Herrero Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Huawei EU

Bedeviled by bureaucracy, corruption, and polarization, unmanageable scale and lack of competitive pressures, how could the world’s governments manage to do better?

Chair: 
Mark Esposito Professor, Hult International Business School & Senior Advisor, Strategy& at PwC

Speakers:
James Mountford Director, Royal Free London Hospital
Antonella Mei-Pochtler Board member, Publicis and Generali
Remigijus Šimašius Mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania
Amit Kapoor Honorary Chairman, Institute for Competitiveness, India

Good businesses have always aimed for net-positive impact on the world around them—but some today are crying foul over the standards and ratings being imposed in the name of justice.

Chair:
Andrew Hill Senior Business Writer, Financial Times

Speakers:
Marie Ringler Ashoka Europe Leader
Falco Weidemeyer Partner, Global Head of Turnaround and Restructuring Strategy, EY Parthenon
Piyachart (Arm) Isarabhakdee CEO, BRANDi and Companies
Joseph Cahill Chief Customer Officer, PMI

A major overhaul can be perfectly logical for an organization–yet feel perfectly awful for everyone involved. What makes transitions go more smoothly?

Chair:
Christian Stadler Professor of Strategic Management, Warwick Business School

Speakers:
Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg Executive Advisor
Guila-Clara Kessous UNESCO Ambassador
Behnam Tabrizi Consulting professor, Stanford University, Department of Management Science
Heike Mensi-Klarbach Head of Group People and Organisational Innovation, Raiffeisen Bank International AG
Jennifer Tharp Chair of the PMI Board of Directors

The classic path to higher productivity is labor-saving equipment—and in the age of knowledge workers, that means ever-smarter machines. The real triumph comes, though, with spotting how the human capacity freed up can be directed to more valuable ends.

Chair:
Julia Kirby Editor, Harvard University Press

Speakers:
Abakar Saidov CEO and Cofounder, Beamery
Mehran Gul Author
So-Young Kang Founder, CEO Gnowbe
Georg Kopetz Co-Founder and CEO at TTTech

It’s been the biggest debate of the year: get back to the office, or assume remote work? “Hybrid” sounds ideal—but the keys to getting the best of both worlds aren’t obvious.

Chair:
Astrid Maier Editor in chief, XING News

Speakers:
Claudia Crummenerl Managing Director Workforce & Organization, Capgemini Invent
Mickael Locoh VP Southern Europe & Africa, Steelcase
Frauke von Polier CPO, Viessmann Climate Solutions SE
Julia Hobsbawm Founder, Editorial Intelligence

Meritocratic systems are harshly criticized for their tendency to preserve bastions of privilege. Some have been dismantled. Is there a better way to even the playing field—and encourage high achievement?

Chair:
Sarah Green Carmichael Editor, Bloomberg Opinion

Speakers:
Carol Kauffman Founder, Institute of Coaching, Harvard
Yasmina Jaidi Global Head, L’Oréal University Leadership & Culture
Michael Watkins Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
Anjana Mistry CFO/COO, Emergn Limited

Drucker called it the spirit of performance: the productive energy of a team committed to taking its achievement to the next level. Leaders today are discovering how changing an organization's structure can affect it.

Chair:
Michele Zanini Co-Founder Management Lab

Speakers:
Linda Asplund Global Head of Corporate Experience, Capgemini Invent
Tony O'Driscoll Professor, Duke University
Sharon MacBeath Group HR Director, Hermès
Kevin Nolan President & Chief Executive Officer, GE Appliances

Great organizations don’t just survive change. They use it to get smarter.

Chair:
Alice Sherwood Research Fellow, King’s College

Speakers:
Keri Mesropov Founder, TRG Arts Talent Lab
Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño Executive President, IE University
Eric Kohlmann Kohlmann & Co AG
Garrick Jones Adjunct Faculty, Hult EF Corporate Education

On HBR’s hundredth birthday, we trace the trends in management thinking that have had most impact—and positioned us to see further and move forward.

Chair:
Ania Wieckowski Executive Editor, Harvard Business Review

Speakers:
Adi Ignatius EVP & Editor-in-chief, HBR Group
Amy Edmondson Professor, HBS
Claudio Fernández-Aráoz Executive Fellow for Executive Education, HBS
Roger Martin Strategy Advisor
Laura Morgan Roberts Sr. Associate Professor, Darden School of Business

You’re part of the next generation of innovators, value-creators, and leaders. How will you navigate swirling economic and social change to have the positive impact the world needs you to have? This highly interactive session is an opportunity to learn from—and share your ideas with—peers from far and wide.

Chair:  
Isabella Mader Excellence Institute

Panelists:
Curtis Carlson Distinguished Executive in Residence, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Christine Darla Bautista Co-founder & CMO, TRIZIE, Drucker Challenge Finalist
Felix Häusler Founder Infinity Vertigo, 4GAMECHANGERS and Global Shapers delegate