IXL Social Enterprise Case Studies Education January 2012 | Page 15

Revolutionizing the way to make education affordable for everyone
AUTHORS
Dr. Hitendra Patel
Hult Professor of Innovation and Growth; Managing Director, IXL Center
At IXL Center, Hitendra works with firms and their executives to develop the institutional capabilities and
culture that foster growth through innovation. He has given speeches globally on Innovation and Growth
and is the author of a range of books on Innovation. At Hult, he is the Global Director of Innovation,
Management Consulting and Action Learning Programs.
Julius Bautista
Consultant, IXL Center
Julius works on product development and research efforts at IXL Center. He has contributed to the development of
white papers, articles and books around the topic of innovation. Additionally, Julius has worked with IXL Center’s
clients to find new growth areas through Hult’s MBA AP program. Prior to joining IXL, Julius has worked in the
IT industry as a consultant.
Ronald Jonash
Partner, IXL Center
Ron’s specialties are the strategic management of innovation, technology, and R&D to create and capture
maximum value. In addition, Ron is on the faculty of the Hult International Business School, and on the
Advisory board of Arthur D. Little Inc.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to thank Charles Kane, Walter Bender, and the staff of One Laptop Per Child for
their extensive support and encouragement. Special thanks to Kerry Herman, Howard McNally, Ahmad
Ashkar and Stephen Hodges, President of Hult International Business School.

About IXL Center

The Center for Innovation, Excellence and Leadership vision is to Make Innovation Management a critical business discipline in corporations and business schools around the
world. Its mission is to help corporations and individuals develop world-class innovation
management capability while driving significant business impact. IXL Center delivers
this through Training, Coaching and Advisory services to create innovation breakthroughs
and to build the innovation capabilities of individuals, teams and organizations. Clients
achieve bigger, bolder, better results more quickly and cost effectively though blended
learning and action learning programs, its Certified Innovation Manager (CIM) program
and collaborative research projects. IXL Center is a global community of innovation
thought leaders and practitioners with offices in Boston, Dubai, London, San Francisco,
Shanghai, São Paulo and Seoul.

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