Johan Öberg
Managing Director & Senior Partner
Stockholm
Johan Öberg is a core member of The Boston Consulting Group’s Principal Investors & Private Equity practice, and he leads the private equity topic globally. He is also a core member of the firm’s Health Care, Corporate Development, and Global Advantage practices, and he leads BCG in Sweden.
Johan coordinates many of BCG’s health care activities in Europe and is an active contributor to firm's medtech sector there, focusing on strategy and growth-related assignments as well as operations initiatives across medtech, biopharma, and provider clients. Since joining BCG in 2000, he has worked in a variety of industries in the Nordics and throughout Europe, as well as in the US and Asia.
Johan has specific experience in private equity and mergers and acquisitions. He has led a wide range of commercial due-diligence projects for top investors seeking opportunities in health care, including private providers and clients in pharma, medtech, and biotech. He also has deep expertise in growth strategies for health care systems, including market assessments and mergers and acquisitions.
Before joining BCG, Johan worked at Ericsson in a general management position and at Accenture.
Plans to tax CO2 emissions that are attributed to imports would hike costs for EU trade partners and redefine competitive advantage in many industries.
If the last decade was a golden age for PE, the next one could be more gilded. Funds have the potential to deliver exponential growth—provided firms make the needed strategic and operational changes.
During the next slowdown, the smart money will double down on growth, fast-track transformation, and capitalize on attractive, well-priced opportunities.
Even with capital and competition at all-time highs, growth is possible for PE firms that rethink value creation.
Nearly ideal market conditions in private equity will not last. Top firms will adapt by improving internal processes, creating better talent strategies, and finding new ways to deliver value.
In the past, these countries have enjoyed levels of success that belie their small size. To keep that going, both government and the private sector need to transform themselves.
A BCG study of Nordic companies, which rank among the world’s top value creators, offers insights into how companies in all regions can promote long-term success.
To regain an economic edge, the Nordic countries should apply best practices, including reforming labor regulation and boosting innovation.
The Nordic countries are losing their competitiveness, and a transformation is needed to change direction. We believe that by addressing the workforce gap—caused by the aging population—and by stimulating the most productive industries, the Nordics could return to a path of healthy economic growth.
The much-admired Nordic model is showing cracks. The Nordics must act now and act fast to transform the model in order to continue to create wealth and well-being in the years to come.
