Hermann SimonHermann Simon is chairman of Simon-Kucher & Partners Strategy & Marketing Consultants, which has twenty-seven offices in twenty-two countries. He is the world's leading authority on pricing. He has received numerous international awads and honorary doctorates and was voted the most influential management thinker in German-speaking countries after the late Peter Drucker. He is the author many books in twenty-six languages, including worldwide bestsellers Power Pricing, Manage for Profit, Not for Market Share, Hidden Champions, and Hidden Champions of the 21st Century. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous business journals. He was a professor of business administration and marketing at the Universities of Mainz and Bielefeld. He was also a visiting professor at Harvard Business School, Stanford, London Business School, INSEAD, Keio University in Tokyo and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studied economics and business administration at the universities of Bonn and Cologne. He received his diploma and his doctorate from the University of Bonn. Read More Read Less