Dr. Leonard Schlesinger
Acclaimed business executive and academic Leonard Schlesinger was recently named the 12th President of Babson College. His appointment begins on July 1, 2008. Schlesinger comes to Babson from Limited Brands, where he served most recently as Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, overseeing Express, Limited Stores, Victoria’s Secret Beauty, Stores and Direct, Bath and Body Works, C.O. Bigelow, Henri Bendel and the White Barn Candle Company. He has also served as a senior executive with Au Bon Pain Co., Inc. His academic career includes twenty years at Harvard Business School, where, most recently, he served as the George Fisher Baker, Jr., Professor of Business Administration, leading MBA and executive education programs. He has also served as faculty member and administrator at Brown University. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of nine books, including The Value Profit Chain (Free Press, 2002) and The Service Profit Chain (Free Press, 1997).

Marshall N. Carter
Mr. Carter is Deputy Chairman of the Board of NYSE Euronext and former Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. From 1992-2001 he was chairman and CEO of the State Street Bank and Trust Co., and its holding company, State Street Corporation. He joined State Street in July 1991 as president and chief operating officer, became CEO in 1992 and chairman in 1993. During his nine years as CEO, the company grew more than six fold. State Street is a leading servicer and manager of financial pension and mutual fund assets worldwide. Prior to joining State Street, Mr. Carter was with the Chase Manhattan Bank for 15 years. A former Marine Corps officer who was awarded the Navy Cross and Purple Heart during two years' service as an infantry officer in Vietnam, Mr. Carter served from 1975-76 as a White House Fellow at the State Department and Agency for International Development. Major projects during that year were the application of satellite technology to agricultural activities in West Africa, the use of high-level U2 photography for disaster relief activities in Guatemala and the use of sensor-surveillance equipment as a member of the project team that installed the U.S. Sinai Surveillance Mission in Israel after the 1973 Middle East War. Mr. Carter holds a B.S. degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point; an M.S. in operations research and systems analysis from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California; and an M.A. in science, technology and public policy from George Washington University, which he attended on the GI Bill.

Col. Thomas Kolditz
Colonel Tom Kolditz is the Professor and Head of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. A native of New Athens, Illinois, Colonel Kolditz entered active duty in 1982 at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. He has served in an array of tactical command and technical staff assignments worldwide, and as a leadership and human resources policy analyst in the Pentagon. Colonel Kolditz's most recent troop assignment was from 1997 to 1999 as commander of an artillery battalion supporting the DMZ in the Republic of Korea. His department is responsible for teaching, research, and outreach activities in Engineering Psychology (Human Factors), General Psychology, Sociology, Leadership, and Management at West Point.

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Sociology from Vanderbilt University, as well as Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Social Psychology from the University of Missouri. He has also received a Master of Military Arts and Science degree from the School of Advanced Military Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and a Masters in Strategic Studies from the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

Colonel Kolditz has published across a diverse array of academic, military, and leadership trade journals, including Military Review, Performance, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Personality, and Perception and Psychophysics, and serves on the editorial and advisory boards of several academic journals. He is a member of the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association (Division 19, Military Psychology, and Division 14, Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology), the Society of Psychologists in Management, and is a Fellow in the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. Colonel Kolditz has served as a research consultant in major Army studies, including the Secretary of the Army Senior Review Panel on Sexual Harassment (1997) and the Chief of Staff, Army Study Group on Well-being in the US Army (2000). His teaching and research interests center on applied social psychology and leadership, and on a concept called In Extremis Leadership-with special application to military, police, and extreme sport coaching. In April and May, 2003, he traveled throughout Iraq to study leadership and cohesion in small units during hostilities.

Gregs G. Thomopulos
Mr. Thomopulos has over 39 years of experience in the engineering and construction industry and is currently the President and CEO of Stanley Consultants, Inc. Stanley Consultants provides engineering, environmental and construction services worldwide and operates from 14 offices in the United States and ten offices overseas. The organization, founded in 1913, has successfully completed more than 21,000 engagements in all 50 states and 93 countries and is ranked among the largest engineering companies in the United States. Mr. Thomopulos received a B.S. (with highest distinction) in Civil Engineering from the University of Kansas and an M.S. in Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics from the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, by Teikyo Marycrest University, Davenport, Iowa. Mr. Thomopulos is a licensed professional engineer in 14 states and Puerto Rico and is a fellow of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) and the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is also a member of the Iowa Engineering Society and the National Society of Professional Engineers. He has served on the advisory boards of the University of Iowa College of Engineering, the Iowa Institute of Hydraulics Research, the University of Kansas School of Engineering, the International Center for Water Resources at Central State University and the President’s Council at Olin College. Mr. Thomopulos has served on numerous community and professional committees including the board of Goodwill Industries of Eastern Iowa and the Committee of Fellows of ACEC. Currently he is a chair of the International Committee of ACEC and a member of the executive committee of FIDIC, the International Federation of Consulting Engineers. He has been a member of the Wellmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield board of directors since 1999.

Prof. Carolyn Hotchkiss
Professor Hotchkiss joined the Babson faculty in January 1986, and teaches in both the graduate and undergraduate programs. She teaches foundation and core law courses and electives in International Business Law and in Public International Law. Professor Hotchkiss is also a Visiting Professor of Law at Wellesley College, for whom she teaches Public International Law. Her course materials, along with additional resources, are available at The Law Page. In 2000, she was awarded the Charles M. Hewitt award for teaching excellence by the Academy of Legal Studies in Business. Scholarly interests are in the areas of international law and the impact of new technologies on law and business. She has written extensively in these areas, and has published a textbook, International Law for Business (McGraw-Hill, 1994), now under revision for a second edition. Before joining the faculty at Babson, Professor Hotchkiss received her A.B. (cum laude) from Mount Holyoke College and her J.D. from Columbia University Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She practiced law in New York with the firm of Webster & Sheffield, was in-house counsel to Pratt Institute and Mount Holyoke College, and taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Western New England College of Law. She is a member of the bar in New York and Massachusetts, and active in a variety of professional associations. She is active in her community as a volunteer for local charitable organizations, and is a musician in a folk group, The Firehouse Band. Her areas of expertise include Business Law and International Business Law.