R. Edward Freeman is Stephen E. Bachand University Professor of Business Administration, Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration, and academic director of the Institute for Business in Society at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. He is the author of the influential Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (2010, originally published in 1984) and coauthor of The Power of And: Responsible Business Without Trade-Offs (Columbia, 2020), among other books, and he has worked with executives and companies around the world.

Andrew Sell is a senior research associate with the Virginia Department of Social Services. He was previously senior associate director of research at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.