He received his Ph.D. in management from the University of St. Gallen (Dr. oec. HSG), his MSc from CEMS-MIM (HSG; HEC Paris) and from the University of St.Gallen (lic. oec. HSG). He has also been a lecturer at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland and a visiting scholar at the Sloan School of Management at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) as well as at the Salomon Center, Stern School of Business, New York University. Boris has received several awards.