Prof. Alan Kantrow
Moscow School of Management, Russia
Professor of Management
Director of the SKOLKOVO Infrastructure Research Center (SIRC)
Moscow School of Management, Russia
- Recognized worldwide as a leading scholar with 30 years; experience in the area of strategy, innovation, organizational design, E-learning and technology networks, and infrastructure development in emerging markets
- Visiting Scholar at MIT’s Sloan School of Management
- Prior to joining SKOLKOVO, a Senior Partner and Chief Knowledge Officer at Monitor Group, as well as the Dean of Faculty of Monitor University; board member of the firm’s eLearning and technology expert network business units
- Led a wide range of advisory projects for tertiary education institutions in both the developed and the developing worlds and helped oversee numerous projects in support of non-profit organizations pioneering new approaches to important social issues
- Served as Senior Partner, Board member and Chief Knowledge Officer for Monitor Group
- Before joining the Monitor Group in 1995, was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he worked for 8 years (based first in New York, then London, and then Tokyo) the editor of The McKinsey Quarterly and the Director of Communications, Europe and Asia-Pacific
- Before McKinsey, he was the senior editor of Harvard Business Review and also held a research appointment on the faculty of Harvard Business School
- For many years, a member of the Board of Trustees of Poly Prep Country Day School in New York, where he chaired both the Long-Range Planning and the Education Committees
- Member of the Harvard Graduate School Alumni Association Council and of the Editorial Advisory Boards of both Strategy & Leadership and the Sloan Management Review
- Alan led a wide range of advisory projects for tertiary education institutions and helped oversee numerous projects in support of non-profit organizations pioneering new approaches to important social issues.
- Author of several books and numerous articles; published a number of articles in the international professional journals
