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These hard-hitting interviews with technology's leading CEOs reveal corporate strategy, product direction and other questions our audience wants answered.

• Ian Ayres
• Yale Professor and Author of Super Crunchers:
  Why Thinking-by-Numbers is the New Way to be Smart
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  Ian Ayres is a lawyer and an economist. He is the William K. Townsend Professor at Yale Law School and a Professor at Yale's School of Management. He was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, received his B.A. (majoring in Russian studies and economics) and J.D. from Yale and his Ph.D in economics from M.I.T. He has previously taught at Illinois, Northwestern, Stanford and Virginia law schools and has been a research fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He currently is the editor of the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization.
  
  Professor Ayres is a regular commentator on public radio's Marketplace and a columnist for Forbes magazine. His research has been featured on PrimeTime Live, Oprah and Good Morning America and in Time and Vogue magazines. Professor Ayres has published 9 books and over 100 articles on a wide range of topics. In 2007, he published Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way to be Smart. Professor Ayres has been ranked as one of the most prolific and most-cited law professors of his generation.
  
  

• Howard Dresner
• Industry Consultant and Author of Performance Management
  Revolution
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  Howard Dresner is widely credited with coining the term "business intelligence" while an analyst at Gartner. He certainly has the credentials to be called a founding father, after dedicating much of his life to researching BI technologies and trends, advising corporations and vendors and shaping the market. He spent 13 years at Gartner, where he served as lead analyst for Business Intelligence. During his tenure, BI went from an esoteric "backwater" to a mainstream and highly valued research area. He left Gartner to become Chief Strategy Officer for Hyperion Solutions in 2005. After Hyperion was acquired by Oracle, Dresner left to set-up his own one-man industry analysis and strategy consulting firm, Dresner Advisory Services.
  
  

• David P. Norton
• Founder and Director of Palladium Group and Co-Author of
  The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into Action
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  David Norton is a cofounder, president, and CEO of BSCol – Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, a Pallidium company. He was cofounder and president of Nolan, Norton & Company. He is coauthor, with Robert S. Kaplan, of "The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into Action" (Harvard Business School Publishing, 1996), "The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment" (Harvard Business School Publishing, 2000), and three articles on the Balanced Scorecard in the Harvard Business Review. Dr. Norton earned a doctorate in business administration from Harvard University, an MBA from Florida State University, an MS in operations research from the Florida Institute of Technology, and a BS in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
  
  

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