Amy Bernstein is Editor in Chief of Harvard Business Review, where she leads HBR’s editorial teams across the magazine, HBR.org, and HBR Press. The magazine has won numerous editorial awards since she joined, including Folio’s Magazine of the Year for 2019, and was a finalist in 2015 and 2021 for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence. In 2016, Bernstein was named one of Folio’s Top Women in Media. 

She also co-hosts HBR’s award-winning Women at Work podcast. Through discussion with experts and listeners, this podcast seeks to help women get where they want to go both personally and professionally. 

Bernstein serves as the Vice President and Executive Editorial Director for Harvard Business Publishing. In this cross-enterprise role she leads the editorial strategy and content development of the company’s learning and educator assets. She was previously the Editor of HBR’s magazine, which received two National Magazine Award nominations for general excellence during her tenure. 

Since 2020, she has also led the editorial strategy and content development for HBP’s Corporate Learning and Higher Education businesses. Prior to joining HBR in 2011, Bernstein was Vice President, Global Thought Leadership at ManpowerGroup, and before that, she served as Executive Editor at strategy+business. She also held senior editorial positions at Business 2.0, The Industry Standard, Brill’s Content, and U.S. News & World Report. 

She has served as president of the Journalism and Women Symposium, a national organization that supports the professional empowerment and personal growth of women in journalism and works toward a more accurate portrayal of the whole society. And she served as chair of the Editorial Advisory Board of the San Francisco Bay Citizen, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membersupported news organization dedicated to promoting innovation in journalism and catalyzing citizen engagement with the news. She is a graduate of Yale College.

Geoff Edgers is an American journalist and writer who is the national arts reporter for The Washington Post. He previously worked for the Boston Globe. Edgers is the author of "Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song That Changed American Music Forever." He also hosted the "Edge of Fame," a podcast produced by The Washington Post and WBUR, Boston's NPR station, that profiles figures such as Norm Macdonald, Ava DuVernay, Roseanne Barr and Chevy Chase. 

In 2010, Edgers produced and starred in the music documentary "Do It Again," about his attempt to reunite the Kinks. His articles have appeared in magazines such as GQ, Spin and Wired. Edgers has also published children's books on Elvis, the Beatles and Stan Lee, and contributed to WBUR Boston. 

In 2013, he hosted a Travel Channel reality TV series called "Edge of America," and in June 2013 he was awarded a New England Emmy for work on a video for the Boston Globe. Edgers joined The Washington Post in September 2014 as the paper's national arts reporter and hosts the military history series "Secrets of the Arsenal" on the American Heroes Channel. He is a graduate of Tufts University. 

Tim Madle is Creative Director at Landesberg Design in Pittsburgh, where he works with higher education institutions and mission-driven organizations to clarify complex ideas and build cohesive editorial, brand, and digital systems. He approaches design as a conversation—grounded in thoughtful questions and shaped by the interplay of strategy, language, and form.

Tim has led projects for universities including the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Virginia, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the University of Pittsburgh. Before joining Landesberg, he worked with civic and cultural organizations in Washington, D.C., including the Smithsonian, NPR, and The Washington Ballet.

His work has been featured in Communication Arts, Print, and Brand New, and honored by D&AD, AIGA, The One Club for Creativity, the Art Directors Club, and the Society of Publication Designers. He holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture.

Kelly McMurray is the founder and creative director of 2communiqué. She has overseen the redesign of numerous publications for print and digital including Bryant, Bowdoin, Georgetown Business, USC Dornsife, Medicine@Brown, and Iowa Stater. Kelly has presented at CASE, Folio, UCDA, AIGA, and AM+P, and she is published in Currents, Designer, and Signature. Her work has received recognition from AIGA, AM+P, AAF, ASME, CASE, Folio, SPD, and UCDA.

Carlo Rotella is a professor of American Studies, English, and journalism at Boston College. He writes for the New York Times Magazine, he has been a regular columnist for the Boston Globe and radio commentator for WGBH FM, and his work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Critical Inquiry, American Quarterly, The American Scholar, Raritan, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post Magazine, Transition, Harper’s, DoubleTake, Boston, Slate, The Believer, TriQuarterly, and The Best American Essays.  He has held Guggenheim, Howard, and Du Bois fellowships and received the Whiting Writers Award, the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, and The American Scholar's prizes for Best Essay and Best Work by a Younger Writer, and Cut Time was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has received U.S. Speaker and Specialist Grants from the State Department to lecture in China and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is a founding editor of the “Chicago Visions and Revisions” series at the University of Chicago Press.

Joanna Weiss is the editor of Harvard Magazine and a longtime journalist based in Boston. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, POLITICO Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, The Economist, Boston Magazine, and WBUR's Cognoscenti, and she is a co-author of the recent book "Taylor Swift: Album by Album." Her Boston Magazine article "For Those Moms About to Rock," about the rock band she formed with fellow working mothers during the pandemic, has been optioned for film by 20th Century Studios.