Michael A. Hitt holds the Weatherup/Overby Chair of Executive Leadership at Arizona State University. He is co-author, with Richard E. Hoskisson, of Downscoping: How to Tame the Diversified Firm (OUP 1994).
Jeffrey S. Harrison is Professor of Management in the College of Business Administration at the University of Central Florida.
R. Duane Ireland holds the W. David Robbins Chair of Business Policy in the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond. Along with Mike Hitt and Richard Hoskisson, he is co-author of Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization.