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Leadership
How universities must adapt to train future leaders
Universities must embrace action-based learning focused on solving real-life problems.
Knut Haanaes, former Dean of the Global Leadership Institute of the World Economic Forum. He has previously been a senior partner and global leader of the strategy practice in BCG and professor of strategy at IMD in Lausanne. He has a PhD in strategy and has also been a visiting scholar at Stanford and executive director of the Norwegian Research Council.