Felix Oberholzer-Gee new on Ringier's Board of Directors
Felix Oberholzer-Gee, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts, will join Ringier's board of directors.
Oberholzer is a native of Zug, Switzerland, has held a professorship at the elite university in the USA for 13 years, and is a specialist in the digital transformation of modern companies.
The 55-year-old heads the MBA program at Kaderschmiede and teaches primarily in executive education programs. He studied economics at the University of Zurich, worked as a director at a Swiss process control company before his academic career, and then received his first professorship at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Based on his research and teaching, Oberholzer is considered a media and digitalization expert who also regularly deals with the Chinese economy and the performance of multinational companies in China. He publishes in numerous international publications such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy - but also in the Financial Times, the Guardian, Le Figaro, the New York Times and many more. In September 2012, he also published a case study at Harvard entitled "Ringier - Building a Digital-Age Media Company" about the media company Ringier, in which he examined the implementation of the Blick Group's newsroom.
Michael Ringier, publisher and Chairman of the Board of Directors, in a statement: "With Professor Felix Oberholzer, a personality is joining our Board of Directors who not only lives close to the digital world, but right in the middle of it."
