Teaching

On September 16th, Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt warmly welcomed the new MBA class of 2022-2024 at FAU in Nuremberg and started with their first module “Fundamentals of Management”. The students, who already represent the 19th year of FAU’s MBA, will now start into exciting and fascinating 18 months of o...

After inspiring summer semester seminars and lectures with many highlights, Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt and the entire Chair of Industrial Management celebrated the successful final in "Little Italy" near our WiSo :-) For now, we wish all students the best of luck and success with the upcoming exams...

On July 27th, 2022, Prof. Voigt, Dr. Christian Baccarella and Dr. Lukas Maier finally got to welcome Daniel Krauss, CIO and co-founder of FLIX, back in person to the seminar room for the final presentations of the Innovation Seminar. Over the last months, the students worked hard on three highly ...

After several semesters of online sessions, we were delighted to personally host Prof. Dr. Stefan Asenkerschbaumer, Head of the Supervisory Board of Robert Bosch, for the final presentations of his seminar at the WISO. During this semester, three student groups dealt with different challenges for...

On 25 July 2022 Klaus Helmrich, former CEO of Siemens Digital Industries, and Prof. Voigt welcomed three student teams to the closing event of the seminar. After the kickoff event in April where the students were given the challenge of digitalization in supply chain, the teams presented three soluti...

For the first time in a live setting, and the fourth time in total, the final event of the seminar “Strategies of Technology-Oriented Industrial Companies” with Siemens CEO Dr. Roland Busch took place on July 22nd. In three outstanding presentations on the topic “Success Contribution of Platform Gov...

On July 21, Dr. Robert Mayr, CEO of DATEV eG, was appointed Honorary Professor by FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger. The festive handover of the appointment took place in the historical and splendid President’s office in Erlangen Castle, the headquarters of FAU. Prof. Dr. Robert Mayr is a...

The Chair of Industrial Management had the pleasure to welcome Bruno Götz (Head of Patents) at Bayern Innovativ, for a guest lecture on the topic “How to protect innovations”. Bruno showed different possibilities for organizations to protect intellectual property rights and innovations. Moreover,...

On July 15, Prof. Dr. Ralf P. Thomas (CFO, Siemens AG & Initiator of the EMBA Program) and Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt (Head of the Program & Dean of Executive Education) were delighted to graduate the 7th class of the EMBA „International Leadership and Finance“, organized by FAU since 2014. Th...

On July 13th, our Innovation Insights Series continued with a thoughtful presentation by Dr. Annika Hauptvogel, Head of Technology and Innovation Management at Siemens. Under the topic “How do we manage to transform inventions (from Technology) into successful business innovations?” she spoke abo...