Preface: Knut Haanaes is a Senior Partner and Managing Director in the Geneva office of The Boston Consulting Group. Formerly Office Administrator of BCG Oslo and Global Leader of BCG’s Strategy Practice.

Before joining BCG, Knut was Executive Director of The Research Council of Norway and Associate Professor of business strategy at the Norwegian Business School. He has also held research positions at IMD in Switzerland and Stanford University.

Knut holds a MSc in Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and a PhD from Copenhagen Business School