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As of 2021, Felix Schuler is a Senior Advisor to Boston Consulting Group.

In his time at BCG, Felix’s client work focused on organization, change, and people topics, mostly within the industrial goods industry. He has worked extensively with clients in steel and metals, engineered products, machinery, electrical components, and chemicals. His expertise covers organization design (with a special focus on "organizing for cooperation"), enablement, ensuring sustainable change, and organizational transformations. In addition, he worked in pricing, commercial excellence, and selling, general, and administrative expense (SG&A) cost optimization.

Felix held BCG internal line management positions along with his client work, including as a recruiting director and career development advisor for consultants, project leaders, and principal/partners. He also led BCG’s sustainable work initiative.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

  • PhD, industrial economics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
  • Master’s degree, economics, Wayne State University

Publications and Videos

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Learn from the Best in Organizational Transformation

The pandemic is forcing companies to be more sure-footed in their change efforts. Here are insights from those that have succeeded.
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Hybrid Work Is the New Remote Work

Leaders should be managing remote working conditions amid the uncertainty of today and prepare for and optimize the hybrid working models of tomorrow.
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What 12,000 Employees Have to Say About the Future of Remote Work

Learn how your company can hold onto the valuable productivity gains made during the pandemic.
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Remote Work Works—Where Do We Go from Here?

Assessing which roles are best suited to remote, onsite, or hybrid working models will help establish a long-term ambition for the future of work.
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Solving Steel’s Value-Added Riddle

Steel producers don't increase their profitability by adding value to their products. But if they abandoned the practice, they'd risk their very existence.
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Is Cash Better Than Food Vouchers for Syrian Refugees?

A study commissioned by the United Nations World Food Programme found that giving Syrian refugees unrestricted cash instead of vouchers yielded similar or better food security.
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Metals Manufacturing: Four Rules for Managing Inventory Better

Today’s metals manufacturers must actively manage inventory by keeping it down, keeping it simple, keeping it moving, and keeping an eye on it.
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Coping with Overcapacity: Navigating Steel’s Capacity Conundrum

Steel overcapacity is back following the China boom. But steel companies can still find ways to influence their profitability.
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Pricing War Games: An Interview with Felix Schuler

The leader of BCG's pricing war-games initiative explains how these exercises help managers better understand one of the most critical elements of improving profits.
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Steel’s Contribution to a Low-Carbon Europe 2050

BCG and the Steel Institute VDEh provide technical insight into the steel industry’s CO2 abatement potential and assess the impact of economic considerations on emissions-reducing technologies.
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Long-Tail Pricing in Business-to-Business Markets

Business-to-business companies too often neglect active pricing of the “long tail”—products that represent little revenue individually but significant margins collectively. 
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Flexibility and Innovation

China, volatile demand, and fluctuating raw-material prices are multiple challenges for steel companies. What strategy do they need to prosper in this environment?