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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...

On May 21st, the Chair of Industrial Management had the pleasure to contribute to “Die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften” with their research into sustainable innovations and consumer behavior. At their booth, Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt, Dr. Lukas Maier and Lauren Mackintosh presented their current re...

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...

From May 18th to May 19th, the BIOTEXFUTURE team from FAU consisting of Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt, Dr. Christian Baccarella, Dr. Lukas Maier and Lauren Mackintosh took part at the BIOTEXFUTURE Forum and Member Day 2022. Under the topic “Shaping the Future of the Bio-based Textile Value Chain“ they...

Last Wednesday, the team of the Chair of Industrial Management had the pleasure to warmly welcome Christian Polenz, Deputy Chairman & Chief Customer Officer of TeamBank AG, as the second speaker in our Innovation Insights Series. After Christian briefly presented the history of the Teambank and ...

The Chair of Industrial Management proudly launched this year’s Innovation Insights Series on May the 4th with its kick-off guest lecture by Dr. Andreas Volek, Head of Strategic Innovation Management at Diehl. In his presentation, Dr. Volek elaborated on Diehl’s internal process for the identific...

In the current WirtschaftsWoche survey, 13.2 percent of HR managers named the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg as the university from which they particularly like to hire employees with a degree in Industrial Engineering. With this value, the Industrial Engineering degree is the onl...

The Chair of Industrial Management is committed to the idea that theory and practice must go hand in hand. Therefore, besides the regular lectures, Prof. Voigt and his team invited outstanding guest speakers from a variety of industries to talk about important innovation and technology topics – the ...

During the last MDBA weekend, Prof. Voigt, Dr. Lukas Maier and Dr. Christian Baccarella had the pleasure to welcome Khaleeq Aziz, CEO and Founder of Symanto Research. Symanto analyses text based on machine learning and deep learning algorithms to better understand individuals’ psychological profiles...