Guest Lectures

One of the Chair’s highlights in the summer term 2019 is the “Innovation Insights” series, in which guest speakers from different industries share their experiences in innovation management with our students. On May 8th, the long-awaited kick-off of this series finally took place. Dr. Timm Wagner...

Prof. Dr. Stefan Asenkerschbaumer (CFO of Robert Bosch GmbH and Honorary Professor at our Chair) opened up the Schmalenbach Conference in Cologne on 11th April 2019 together with Prof. Dr. Caren Sureth-Sloane (Chair of Business Taxation at University of Paderborn) and Werner Baumann (Chairman of Boa...

This year, Professor Kai-Ingo Voigt, Oscar Pakos and Marc Rücker again accepted the invitation of the St. Kliment Ohridski University to give a basic lecture on Technology and Innovation Management from April 1st to 5th. During the one-week course, theoretical and practical contents were discussed i...

On 3rd of April, a new series of events began with the first NUElecture, in which various professors from the FAU's School of Business, Economics, and Society (WiSo) entered into a dialogue with the urban society. The first session was opened by Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt, who together with his collea...

On March 6th, Prof. Voigt followed a friendly invitation to give a guest lecture on Corporate Creativity at the well-known Graz University of Technology. Prof. Dr. Stefan Vorbach, Head of the Institute for Management and Organization, kindly organized and hosted the guest lecture, which included an ...

On February 15th, Daniel Krauss, Co-founder and CIO of FlixMobility, dropped in the 15. class of our MBA-Program “Business Management”. All 30 participants took the chance to discuss with Daniel – how he and his two co-founders started their business and how they managed to become one of the major m...

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Russwurm, former SIEMENS-CTO and Head of the Supervising Board of the Voith GmbH & Co. KGaA, has been awarded with the Helmut Volz-Medal of FAU for his outstanding achievement and engagement for our university. FAU-President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger, Dean Prof. Dr. Re...

On January 31 2019, the Chair of Industrial Management was proud to welcome our longstanding member of the chair, Prof. Dr. Stefan Asenkerschbaumer, CFO and Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Robert Bosch GmbH, at his alma mater FAU for two reasons: First, Prof. Asenkerschbaumer gave an i...

For his module “Product and Innovation Management” in the Master in Marketing Management, Prof. Voigt warmly welcomed Dr. Alexander Vyhnal, Head of Research and Development at STAEDTLER Mars GmbH & Co. KG, for a guest lecture on innovation management in the stationery industry. Dr. Vyhnal pro...

As a perfect finale of this semester's Master course in "Organizational Creativity", the Chair of Industrial Management had the pleasure to warmly welcome  Felix Schaffelhofer (Head of Strategy) and Dr. Michael Migendt (Team Strategy) from TeamBank AG. After Felix Schaffelhofer presented very vividl...