Research & Programs - HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management

Contents
Highlights pp. 1-3
Can ethics be taught?
ACQUIN accreditation
Maintenance of AACSB accreditation
HHL’s new city campus
Partners pp. 4-9
Interview with supporters of HHL:
Dr. Mark-Ken Erdmann and
Professor Dr. Burkhard Schwenker
Mercedes-Benz is HHL’s Mobility Partner
Research at CLIC
New network of European business schools
Lanzhou University visits HHL
Executive Education pp. 10-11
HHL Open School Initiative
HHL Executive: A year of new challenges
Euro*MBA taught at HHL
Students pp. 12-15
Lecture series on financial and
economic crisis
DAAD Prize 2009
HHL student initiatives
Beta Gamma Sigma Scholarship
Incoming exchange students
Alumni pp. 16-17
Interview with alumnus Thomas Kühnelt
Update from the Alumni Office
Research & Programs pp. 18-37
Unique MBA courses
Successful M.Sc. Trial Training
Interview with Dr. Emilio Matthaei
HHL tops survey on student satisfaction
Field projects
Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe Chair of
Macroeconomics
Chair of Accounting and Auditing
Chair of Financial Management
Chair of Marketing Management
Heinz Nixdorf Chair of IT-based
Logistics
Chair of Economics and Information Systems
DOW Professorship of Sustainability
and Global Ethics
Chair of Microeconomics
Chair of Strategic Management and
Organization
IHK Chair of Applied Economic Theory
Careers pp. 38-41
MBA placement statistics 2008
HHL’s entrepreneurs
Background pp. 42-44
Interview with MBA student
Kerwin-Ryan Marquez
Portrait of HHL’s IT Department
Upcoming events
responsibility and value-driven management.
HHL promotes intensive dialog with business
practitioners and research focusing on the
problems encountered in practice.
One of the public events is the annual HHL
Discourse Round Table. It provides a forum for
the exchange of ideas between representatives
from the business world, professors, students
and members of the public on topics as
diverse as globalization, the future of labor, the
opportunities and risks connected with biotechnology,
and corporate responsibility. Another
highlight in HHL’s annual calendar is the
Welcome Event in September for new students
at HHL. The second day of this event is
organized and staged by the DOW Professor-
“HHL’s ‘Integrated Management’
approach educates effective and
responsible business leaders. Our
aim is to function as a role model
in sustainability-led management
education which prepares future
executives for the challenges of
the globalized economy.”
Professor Dr. Hans Wiesmeth,
Dean of HHL
ACQUIN accreditation granted to HHL’s master programs
in General Management (MBA)
HHL has had its MBA programs accredited by
the renowned German accreditation agency
ACQUIN (Accreditation, Certification and Quality
Assurance Institute) in accordance with the
German regulations. The ACQUIN report empha-
sizes HHL’s excellent study conditions as
well as the outstanding student services, in
particular in the area of corporate relations and
library. HHL aims to prepare the MBA students
best for the challenges that today’s globally
attuned business leaders have to face and therefore
focuses on close student faculty interaction,
in-depth business and academic experiences
while at the same time developing students’
leadership potential and networking skills.
HHL NEWS – SUMMER 2009
“Our economy needs smart,
motivated people with expertise, a
sense of responsibility, and vision.
I strongly support HHL’s mission
manifested in the teaching of social
and intercultural competencies.”
Professor Dr. Kurt Biedenkopf,
former Prime Minister of Saxony
and Honorary Doctor of HHL
ship of Sustainability and Global Ethics, head-
ed by Professor Dr. Andreas Suchanek, in
cooperation with a partner company; in recent
years, BASF and Porsche were the corporate
partners. The event aims to instill in students
from their very first day at HHL an understand-
ing of the importance of sustainability and
responsible leadership in everyday business
life. The participants learn how and why companies
invest in striving to harmonize profitability
with ethical values.
HHL’s mission to educate effective and responsible
business leaders has been particularly
evident in recent months. In a series of
lectures and seminars entitled “The financial
and economic crisis”, HHL students have
been carefully investigating the current situation
(see page 12).
Congratulations go to all HHL faculty, students,
and staff who helped to convince the peer
review team of the quality of our MBA programs.
Congratulations and special thanks are due to
Jana Studemund and Sandra Miersch of the
TQM team together with the MBA team,
Professor Dr. Torsten Wulf, Petra Spanka, and
Henning Blarr, for their tireless efforts in
connection with the accreditation process, and
also to Matthias Tischner who helped prepare
the self-evaluation report last summer.