Martin is a senior partner and managing director in BCG's New York office. He leads the Strategy Institute worldwide and is a member of the Strategy Leadership Team and a senior member of the Health Care practice area. He joined BCG in 1989 in London, later moving to Tokyo, where he led the Health Care practice in Japan and had responsibility for BCG's business with global companies in Japan.
Martin has led a broad range of strategy assignments in the Financial Services, Consumer, Industrial Goods, and Health Care practice areas. He has a particular interest in globalization, the sustainability of business strategies, and the topic of trust.Before joining BCG, Martin worked for Zeneca in Japan and the United Kingdom, focusing on marketing and strategic-planning functions.
Martin holds a triple first-class master's degree from the University of Cambridge and an M.B.A. from Cranfield Institute of Technology. He also studied physiology at Tokyo University and Japanese at Osaka University.
Matt is a Consultant in BCG's New York office, and has been a member of the Strategy Institute since May, 2008. He has been with the firm since 2004, when he joined BCG's Boston office.
Matt has worked on projects in the Health Care, Information Technology, Retail, Industrial Goods, and Technology, Media, and Telecommunications practice areas focusing on network and portfolio analysis, cost structuring and modeling, corporate growth strategy, acquisitions, and post-merger integrations.
Prior to joining BCG, Matt co-founded and ran a health care software startup, and an electronic consumer devices company. He is an active member of several Open Source communities, contributing to hardware and software design, and he continues to play an active role in local entrepreneurship and business development in New York and Boston.
Matt is a graduate of Princeton University, where he received his degree in Electrical Engineering. He continues to dabble in computational algorithms, semantic and linguistic theory, predictive markets, and agent-based strategy simulations.
Tiha considers his engagement with business a matter of chance and his study of mathematics and philosophy one of choice. "I have always felt," he explains, "that The Boston Consulting Group is the reason I could stay involved in business for such a long time. At BCG, there is room for divergent thinking and searching for new ideas in unusual places. It is an intellectual journey rather than simply work."
Tiha has been a fellow of the Strategy Institute since 1998, and he teaches strategy at the Darden School of Business of the University of Virginia. He studied philosophy and mathematics at the University of Amsterdam and earned his M.B.A. from IMEDE (now IMD), in Lausanne, Switzerland.
He served as financial controller of a group of plantations in Indonesia and as managing director of a trading company in Singapore before joining BCG in 1980 as a consultant in Munich. As a partner, Tiha was responsible for recruiting in Germany and was among the early promoters of time-based competition. After leaving BCG in 1991, he cofounded a consulting firm in Buenos Aires. Before joining Darden in 1996, he served as the administrative director of a major archaeology project in Belize.
Karim R. Lakhani is an academic fellow of the Strategy Institute, and an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School and a Faculty fellow at the Berkman Center of Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. He specializes in the management of technological innovation and product development in firms and communities. His research is on distributed innovation systems and the movement of innovative activity to the edges of organizations and into communities. He has extensively studied the emergence of open source software communities and their unique innovation and product development strategies. He has also investigated how critical knowledge from outside of the organization can be found and put to use inside for innovation in the biotechnology, life sciences and industrial chemicals industries. He is co-editor of Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2005) and co-founder of the MIT-based Open Source research community and web portal.
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