BusinessWeek Columnists

Saul Kaplan

Saul Kaplan is the founder and Chief Catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory. BIF is a non-profit real world laboratory exploring systems level innovation. He also founded Innomodels to help organizations realize the value of business model innovation. Previously he was the Executive Counselor to the Governor of Rhode Island on Economic Growth and Community Development. Saul also blogs at It's Saul Connected.

Innovators, Break Down Those Silos February 8, 2010
The Urgent Need for Education Reform September 2, 2009
Energy Innovation Should Trump Job Creation June 22, 2009

Roger L. Kay

Kay is the founder and president of Endpoint Technologies Associates (www.ndpta.com).

Up-to-Date Tech Has Its Place, Too March 16, 2009

Michael Kaye

Kaye, a chartered financial analyst, is an analyst for Standard & Poor's Portfolio Services.

Kellogg School of Management Faculty Members

The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University is widely recognized as a global leader in management education. A regular feature of the BusinessWeek Online Management Channel is Conversations with Kellogg in which Management Channel Editor Patricia O'Connell talks with a Kellogg School faculty member about the management challenges that lie behind the breaking business news stories of the day. Kellogg's faculty members are known for their research, teaching, and practical connections to the world of business and management through the school's MBA and executive education programs.

President Obama, Father-in-Chief? March 10, 2010
Executive Compensation and Public Outrage February 26, 2010
Lessons from Leno and Conan on Managing Succession January 27, 2010

Karen Klein

Karen E. Klein is a Los Angeles-based writer who covers entrepreneurship and small-business issues. E-mail your questions to Klein to get specific advice from experts in her twice-weekly columns.

Using Online Video to Market Your Business February 3, 2012
How to Rescue an Orphaned Brand January 31, 2012
One-Percenters Want to Buy the Corner Bakery January 27, 2012
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Jesper Koll

Jesper Koll is president and CEO of Tantallon Research Japan, part of Singapore-based Tantallon Capital. Koll, who was chief economist for Merrill Lynch Japan () for eight years before joining Tantallon in June, 2007, is one of the few non-Japanese members of the Keizai Doyukai, the Japan Association of Corporate Executives. He is a columnist for Asia Insight.

Thomas D. Kuczmarski

Thomas D. Kuczmarski is founder and president of Kuczmarski & Associates, an innovation consultancy based in Chicago. The author of five books, Kuczmarski has also taught product and service innovation at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management for 29 years.

Remanufacturing America's Factory Sector September 9, 2009
Chicago Innovation Awards: A Role Model July 15, 2009
An Innovation Action Plan for Obama March 9, 2009
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Ben Kunz

Ben Kunz is director of strategic planning at Mediassociates, a media planning and Internet strategy firm. He is author of the advertising strategy blog ThoughtGadgets.com.