Teaching

We are pleased that the final presentations for the seminar „Strategic Innovationmanagement with Dr. Robert Mayr“ could take place in presence at DATEV Lab for the first time since two years. Three student teams developed innovative cryptocurrency scenarios: (1) Use cases of distributed ledger techn...

The Chair of Industrial Management proudly hosted Steven Heckler, Deputy Head of the Department Digitalization and Innovation at the Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI), for a guest lecture on the sustainability and resilience implications of industrial B2B platforms. Building on a BDI pu...

In the fifth session of our Innovation Insights Series of this summer term, we had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Lydia Mammen, Vice President Data Analytics @ adidas, to her alma mater to discuss how adidas drives digital business growth through data and artificial intelligence. In her presentation...

On June 22th, as part of the Chair’s lecture “BWL für Ingenieure”, Dr. Daniel Teichmann, founder and CEO of Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies GmbH, shared very interesting insights on how to found and manage a regional high-tech company. As a spin-off of the FAU, Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies offer...

The Chair of Industrial Management presented two recent research papers at this year’s European Academy of Management (EURAM) conference in Winterthur, Switzerland. Lars Friedrich presented the study entitled  “How to Increase Consumer Donation Behavior?“ (together with Dr. Lukas Maier, and Prof. Dr...

On 13th of May 2022 the Master Thesis from Christoph Kern - which was supervised by Prof. Kai-Ingo Voigt and Dr. Lukas Maier - with the title “Smart City - Opportunity or Challenge for the Automotive Industry?” was rewarded with the SEW-EURODRIVE Master-Award as the best student thesis in Management...

In the fourth part of our Innovation Insights Series, we had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Daniel Kiel, innovation manager at DATEV, at his alma mater to talk to our students about the innovation approach of the third-largest provider of business software in Germany. During the guest lecture, Danie...

In our Innovation Insights Series #3, Dr. Benjamin Bhattacharya-Ghosh (Chief of Staff to the President & CEO; Head of Foresight & Strategy), Dr. Mohamad Abdul-Hak (Senior Manager e-Drive), Benjamin Kuhn (Senior Manager UX/UI Design) and Mike Milley (Principal Futurist) from Mercedes-Benz Nor...

20th May 2022 On May 20th, the last three classes of the Executive MBA „Business Management“ received their MBA diplomas from Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt (Dean of Executive Education and Head of the Program) and Dietmar Bendheimer (CEO WFA). In a festive ceremony, 51 graduates gathered in the beauti...

Power, spirit and passion were lying in the air this week! Class # 8 of our EMBA program met at our WiSo to study the one-week module „Accounting“, professionally organized and taught by Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann. Although some of the 24 EMBA-students from all over the world could only join this co...