Barbara Czarniawska, Swedish Research Council & Malmsten Foundation; Professor of Management Studies; GRI-Research Institute at the School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University

Prof.Hans Siggaard Jensen, Executive Research Director - Head of the Laboratory, Learning Lab Denmark, The Danish University of Education

Prof. Deirdre McCloskey, Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago; Professor of Economics, History, English; Distinguished Professor of Economics, Philosophy and Art and Cultural Studies, Erasmus universiteit Rotterdam

Prof. Eduard Bonet, Former Director PhD Programmes at ESADE (URL)

Swedish Research Council & Malmsten Foundation; Professor of Management Studies; GRI-Research Institute at the School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University

Born 2nd December 1948 in Bialystok, Poland, where her family moved from Wilno after the World War II. Swedish citizen since 26 August, 1988. MA in Social and Industrial Psychology, Warsaw University, 1970; Ph.D.in Economic Sciences, Warsaw School of Economics, 1976. Visiting Research Fellow at Sloan School of Management, MIT, USA; London School of Economics and Political Science; Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin; Scholar-in-Residence at Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy.

Fellow at Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University; Visiting Professor at Management Centre, University of Leicester, 2004-2009.

Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Royal Engineering Academy, and the Royal Society of Art and Sciences in Göteborg.

Executive Research Director - Head of the Laboratory, Learning Lab Denmark, The Danish University of Education

Hans Siggaard Jensen leads the research and development of Learning Lab Denmark. He is Professor from the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at the Copenhagen Business School.

Hans enjoys recognition as a researcher, both in Denmark and abroad, not least of all due to his untraditional approach. He has worked across the traditional scientific disciplines for many years. His focus lies within the field of knowledge and theory of science, especially questions connected to applied sciences with, for example, IT and education.

Besides holding a number of Danish and international appointments, Hans has written a vast collection of scientific articles and books.

Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago; Professor of Economics, History, English; Distinguished Professor of Economics, Philosophy and Art and Cultural Studies, Erasmus universiteit Rotterdam

Professor McCloskey has advanced understanding of the role of significance testing and its impact on the sciences (McCloskey 1985). The presumption of proof in significance testing mislays reliance on statistics and subverts the understanding of modeling complex human actors. As an insider this critique of the economics profession is a challenge to students and practitioners of the art of economics. The philosopher is advised to be aware of the bias in the technique and be careful of these implications during the practice of education and consulting.

McCloskey explored these themes of the virtues in economics when she presented at the Inaugural James_M._Buchanan Lecture at George Mason University on April 7, 2006. She claimed that of the seven virtues, economists focus only on prudence. In reality, "[capitialism] is an ethically drenched human activity" and all seven virtues need to be present in order for capitalism to function properly. This topic will be the main emphasis of her upcoming work The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce.[1]

Professor McCloskey holds a position at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Erasmus Universiteit, and University of Iowa; having previously taught at The University of Chicago B.A. Economics, Harvard College, 1964; Ph.D. Economics, Harvard University, 1970 [2]

Fields of study: Economics, History, English

Eduard Bonet, PhD in Mathematics by the University of Barcelona, have been lecturer on Probability Theory at that University and professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the Politechnical University of Catalonia. He wrote in Catalan the text books Finite Probability Spaces (1969) and Foundations of Statistics (1972). He is professor of ESADE since 1962.

With the recuperation of the democracy in Spain after 1975, he was General Director of Statistics at the Catalan Government (1979-1983), President of the Catalan Consortium (1983-1989) and President of the Statistical Council (1989-2003).

He organized the PhD in Management Sciences at ESADE and has been its director since 1989. He is a founder member of EDAMBA, member of the Executive Committee since 1993 and President in the period 2000-2004. He is currently running seminars at Henley Management College, Kingston University, Copenhagen Business School, Stockholm School of Economics, Aix-en-Provence and University of Naples Parthenope.

He is working on logic, rhetoric and epistemologies; narratives and sense making; organizational learning and foundations of qualitative methods.

For the moment he has not been completely tamed.