Leveling the Learning Curve

Eimicke William B. :
William B. Eimicke is Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs and the founding director of the Picker Center for Executive Education of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He
has published several books including Social Value Investing: A Management Framework for Effective Partnerships (Columbia University Press, 2018)William B. Eimicke is professor of practice and founding director of the Picker Center for Executive Education at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and has led major online learning projects at Columbia and with partner institutions around the world. His books include Social Value Investing (with Howard W. Buffett, 2018) and Management Fundamentals (with Steven Cohen, 2020), both published by Columbia University Press.

Soulaymane Kachani is the senior vice provost of Columbia University. He oversees the university's teaching, learning, and innovation strategies and the expansion of its online and hybrid offerings. He also focuses on propelling Columbia's excellence as a global university, working to enhance existing international academic partnerships and develop new ones, and to make its campuses ever more welcoming to students and scholars from around the world.

Adam Stepan is the director of Columbia's Picker Center Digital Education Group. He is also an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and the author of more than thirty Columbia and Open Society University Network Case studies, and he serves as a digital education consultant to universities in the United States and abroad.