Alan Kantrow is Professor of Management and Director, Infrastructure Research Center, Moscow School of Management, Skolkovo. Before joining Skolkovo, he served as the Chief Knowledge Officer of the Monitor Group, and as the Dean of Faculty of Monitor University. Before Monitor, he was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was – based first in New York, then London, and then Tokyo – the editor of the McKinsey Quarterly and the director of communications for Europe and Asia-Pacific. Before that, he was senior editor of the Harvard Business Review. He is the author of several books, including Constraints of Corporate Tradition: Doing the Correct Thing, Not Just What the past Dictates, and Knowledge as a Social Phenomenon: “Horse Holding” and Learning in Networks, and numerous articles on manufacturing strategy, product development, and the managerial uses of history. Alan holds a Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization and an A.B., summa cum laude, in Anthropology from Harvard University.