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Michael Hansen and the price of keeping your options open
A German law graduate came to New York with two suitcases and a television-shaped idea of America. At Cengage, Michael Hansen has spent his tenure asking what education should cost, whom it should serve, and where it should lead.
John Eielson
John Eielson is co-CEO and co-founder of FlatWorld, a Boston-based digital-first publisher that sells college textbooks for roughly $25 to $40 to make higher education more affordable. A former U.S. Coast Guard officer turned strategy consultant, he and longtime business partner Alastair Adam acquired the assets of Flat World Knowledge in 2016 and rebuilt it around a simple idea: instructors matter, and quality and affordability do not have to be a tradeoff. Today FlatWorld's titles are used by professors at more than 2,000 colleges and universities.