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Contents Highlights pp. 3-5 New part-time M.Sc. Program Transition in Dean’s Office Term start at HHL KARL-KOLLE-Foundation Daniela and Jürgen Westphal Foundation M.Sc. scholarships Top rankings 5 th Supervisory Board Partners pp. 6-11 HHL Excellence Dinner 2009 Part-time MBA alumni support HHL Dr. Werner Jackstädt Foundation installs chair at HHL Interview with Dr. Harald Langenfeld HHL’s 1 st International Manager Golf Tournament Research at CLIC Executive Education pp. 12-13 New classrooms at HHL’s City Campus General Management Program (GMP) Students pp. 14-17 HHL student initiatives Students travel the world Alumni pp. 18-19 Interview with alumna Ulrike Friedrich Update from the Alumni Office Research & Programs pp. 20-41 News from HHL’s Master programs Interview with Christopher (Rusty) Tunnard HHL’s Doctoral Program Faculty research activities Careers pp. 42-45 1 st European MBA Career Fair Placement statistics for HHL’s M.Sc. Program Company presentations at HHL 1st HHL Start-up Career Fair HHL’s entrepreneurs Background pp. 46-48 Interview with M.Sc. student Benedikt Billmann Successful HHL students Application deadlines Upcoming events “HHL’s Open School Initiative bundles our exchange processes with the corporate world. We want to help our partners keep their business up-to-date and ahead of the competition by giving them access to our state-of-the-art management know-how, highly skilled faculty, and innovative students.” Professor Dr. Hans Wiesmeth, Dean of HHL build the bridges crucial to innovation and value creation. Another forum in which exchange between HHL and the corporate world regularly takes place is HHL-Unternehmergespräche (discussion events), a product of the “HHL: Partner for business” philosophy. Since 2006, this event has been staged with the generous support of PC-Ware Information Technologies AG, Chamber of Com- “At HHL Executive, we develop General Management Programs with our clients for executives who already have several years professional experience. Based on the latest business management expertise, all programs can be tailored to company requirements and adapted to the needs of senior managers.” Jana Studemund, Managing Director / HHL Executive GmbH merce and Industry Leipzig (IHK zu Leipzig) and the German Association for Small and Medium-sized Businesses (BVMW). The Open School Initiative has already given rise HHL News – wiNter 2009/2010 to a wide range of services offered to the mutual benefit of both companies and HHL itself. To ensure the sustainability of the initiative, HHL is planning to set up an interdisciplinary Open School Center to coordinate and expand the flourishing exchange processes between HHL and its business partners. Volker Stößel “The part-time MBA Program at HHL allows me to directly apply newly-gained insights in my daily work. I benefit from the fruitful exchange with my colleagues and from new perspectives on business management.” Melanie Jaklin (P5), Executive Vice President Human Resources / Jenoptik AG “BASF’s commitment to HHL – whether at the HHL organized football tournament between Europe‘s top business schools, the Welcome Event for students at the beginning of the academic year or through recruiting workshops – allows us to stay closely connected to the talent pool while benefitting from the suggestions and impulses derived from our interaction with the students and faculty.” Dr. Reinhard Katz, Group Vice President Change Management and Projects / BASF SE
Highlights New! Part-time M.Sc. Program starts in 2011 HHL’s new part-time Master of Science in Man- agement (M.Sc.) kicks off in January 2011. Admission to the two-year course, which will Transition in Dean’s Office at HHL HHL will face a change in the Dean’s Office. Professor Dr. Hans Wiesmeth’s five-year contract will expire in the end of March 2010, and he will be returning to TU Dresden, to resume the Chair of Economics, focussing on Allocation Theory. Currently, interviews with potential successors for the position as Dean of HHL are underway. Course for sustainable growth is set During his five years as Dean of Germany’s oldest business school, Wiesmeth was able to set the course for HHL’s sustainable growth. Under his leadership, the school’s strategy was formulated in the paper “HHL 2020” on the basis of its mission to educate effective and responsible business leaders through excellence in teaching, research and practice. In parallel, a fundraising plan was developed to facilitate the realization of the strategy. The implementation phase is now well underway, and initial positive results have been achieved. HHL is aiming high for the years ahead, target- ing a ranking among the top 10 European business schools by the year 2020. An important prerequisite for success in reaching this ambitious goal is growth: a doubling of the number of students, and expansion of the chairs, research centers, and service providers. In the past five years HHL’s high standards of quality have been maintained and normally take place every fortnight on Friday evening and Saturday on HHL’s campus, requires a business studies-related Bachelor or even raised, as has been confirmed through the accreditation of all the study programs by the German agency ACQUIN as well as the maintenance of institutional accreditation by AACSB International. HHL is still one of only three business faculties in Germany to boast the AACSB seal of quality. Collaboration of HHL with businesses intensified Wiesmeth was able to establish HHL in the region and beyond as a partner and a place for collaborative knowledge generation bringing together management know-how and management practice. The HHL Open School Initiative bundles the manifold exchange processes between academia and the corporate world. Aside from field projects that confront teams of HHL students with real-life business challenges, regular Unternehmergespräche and other events with entrepreneurs connect HHL with companies in the region. Fields for growth expanded Dean Wiesmeth’s period of office also saw the beginning of HHL’s expansion. On September 1, 2007, the Heinz Nixdorf Chair of IT-based Logistics was established. The Center for IT-based Logistics Leipzig (CITLOG) at this Chair has been supported by the Leipzig Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer since January 1, HHL News – wiNter 2009/2010 a degree in a traditional, single-stage program (Diploma). The part-time M.Sc. content is closely related to the curriculum of the full-time M.Sc. course and is designed to prepare effective and responsible business leaders for the challenges of the 21 st century. Courses are taught completely in English. Participants will benefit from a state-of-the-art, practice-oriented management education, highly commit- ted faculty and staff as well as an international student body. HHL’s new part-time M.Sc. Program starts in January 2011. The application deadline is November 1, 2010. Further information at: www.hhl.de/part-time-msc Professor Dr. Hans Wiesmeth (center) with Dr. Annette Schavan (Federal Minister of Education and Research) and Dr. Arend Oetker during the award ceremony for the HHL Open School Initiative (May 2007) 2008. On March 1, 2009, the Center for Scenario Planning financed by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants was launched. The support of the Dr. Werner Jackstädt Foundation and of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft resulted in the establishment of the Dr. Werner Jackstädt Chair of Economic and Business Ethics on September 1, 2009. This Chair transitioned smoothly from the former DOW Research Professorship for Sustainabilty and Global Ethics supported by DOW Germany. Additionally, since 2005 the following excellent research centers have been set up, financed solely by third-party funds: Center for Healthcare Management, Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation, Center for Corporate Transactions und Center for Financial Reporting & Consolidation. Flanking the increased student numbers, more administrative staff are also gradually being recruited. 3
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