Research & Programs - HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
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<strong>Research</strong> & <strong>Programs</strong><br />
Show your colors! – Leadership Talk<br />
One and a half years after their last meeting in<br />
<strong>Leipzig</strong>, the members <strong>of</strong> the Wissenschaftliche<br />
Gesellschaft für Marketing und Unternehmensführung<br />
(Academic Society for Marketing and<br />
Business Leadership) responded to an invitation<br />
to hold their 56 th Leadership Talk in the<br />
rooms <strong>of</strong> <strong>Leipzig</strong>’s famous Gewandhaus<br />
April 2-3, 2009. The topic this time was the<br />
issue <strong>of</strong> corporate reputation in the light <strong>of</strong> the<br />
current financial crisis and global downturn.<br />
More than 30 top executives and marketing<br />
academics participated in the lively meeting.<br />
The event was opened on Thursday evening<br />
with a dinner speech by Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dr. Andreas<br />
Schulz, Director <strong>of</strong> the Gewandhaus, who<br />
talked about the communication challenges<br />
facing an internationally positioned cultural institution.<br />
Later, participants had the opportunity<br />
to listen to the Gewandhaus orchestra<br />
performing J.S. Bach’s Matthäuspassion.<br />
Workshop “Multichannel <strong>Management</strong>”<br />
at <strong>Leipzig</strong>’s Mediencampus<br />
Is the use <strong>of</strong> multiple sales channels a revenue<br />
booster in recessive times, or does it just impair<br />
a company’s efficiency? This question was<br />
discussed during a day-long workshop at<br />
Mediencampus <strong>Leipzig</strong> organized by the<br />
Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Marketing<br />
und Unternehmensführung on January 27, 2009.<br />
Numerous experts from industry, consulting, and<br />
academia responded to the society’s invitation<br />
and listened amongst others to presentations by<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dr. Gerrit Heinemann, Hochschule<br />
Niederrhein, Dr. Ralf Birkelbach, Springer<br />
Business Media, and Christoph Erbenich,<br />
McKinsey & Company. The speakers presented<br />
current findings in the field <strong>of</strong> multichannel<br />
management as well as insights and best<br />
practices from their respective industries. The<br />
whole workshop was videotaped and a<br />
multimedia documentation will soon be available<br />
at www.wissenschaftliche-gesellschaft.de.<br />
Gunther Greven<br />
After the concert, the group was joined by<br />
members <strong>of</strong> the advisory board <strong>of</strong> <strong>Leipzig</strong>’s<br />
Energy Exchange (EEX), amongst them<br />
<strong>Leipzig</strong>’s Lord Mayor Burkhard Jung, to conclude<br />
the evening together.<br />
On Friday, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dr. Burkhard Schwenker,<br />
CEO <strong>of</strong> Roland Berger Strategy Consultants,<br />
gave the audience a fact-based speech on<br />
the current economic situation and thus provided<br />
a solid foundation for the following debates.<br />
He emphasized his own conviction that<br />
the German economy will recover quickly and<br />
that it will come out <strong>of</strong> the current crisis<br />
strengthened and more competitive. Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
Schwenker was followed by Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dr.<br />
Günter Bentele, University <strong>of</strong> <strong>Leipzig</strong>, who familiarized<br />
the participants with the academic<br />
perspective on corporate reputation. In the<br />
last speech, Hans-Ulrich Jörges, member <strong>of</strong><br />
the editorial board <strong>of</strong> Stern magazine, made<br />
Real-life experience<br />
in brand management<br />
In March 2009, <strong>HHL</strong> students in the marketing<br />
course “Strategic Brand <strong>Management</strong>”<br />
undertook an excursion to Berlin. Ralf Klein-<br />
Bölting, Chief Marketing Officer <strong>of</strong> Deutsche<br />
Bahn AG, gave the students a deep insight into<br />
and first-hand experience <strong>of</strong> brand management.<br />
He presented the new Deutsche Bahn branding<br />
strategy that had won the Marketing Award just<br />
the day before. Afterwards, co-founder <strong>of</strong> Musiol<br />
Munzinger Sasserath, Marc Sasserath, provided<br />
insights into how a consultancy company<br />
supports its clients with brand management<br />
knowledge. The students also had the opportunity<br />
to present to him their individual work on<br />
different car marques and their branding<br />
strategies and received some feedback from the<br />
renowned marketing pr<strong>of</strong>essional.<br />
Jenny Müller<br />
<strong>HHL</strong> NEWS – SUMMER 2009<br />
clear that the public is well able to differentiate<br />
between different institutional actors and that<br />
the business sector overall, but in particular<br />
stock-listed corporations, suffer heavily from a<br />
lack <strong>of</strong> public trust. He especially encouraged<br />
participants from medium-sized and familyowned<br />
businesses to show their colors in the<br />
debate on the future and value <strong>of</strong> the market<br />
economy and business in general. In a final<br />
panel discussion chaired by Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dr. Dr.<br />
h.c. Klaus Backhaus, University <strong>of</strong> Münster,<br />
and supported by Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dr. Klaus-Peter<br />
Wiedmann, University <strong>of</strong> Hannover, Mr. Jörges’<br />
provocative ideas were discussed vigorously,<br />
leaving the impression that the day’s topic had<br />
inspired many participants and provided them<br />
with valuable insights.<br />
Gunther Greven<br />
Dissertation project<br />
“Marketing 50+” complete and<br />
donation from Breuninger for<br />
marketing research<br />
In September 2008, the research project<br />
“Marketing 50+”, conducted in cooperation with<br />
E. Breuninger GmbH & Co., was completed<br />
successfully. In his dissertation project, Marc<br />
Schumacher, former Head <strong>of</strong> Communications at<br />
Breuninger and doctoral candidate at the Chair<br />
<strong>of</strong> Marketing <strong>Management</strong>, showed that brand<br />
communication created for a specific target<br />
group is much more effective than a general<br />
one. In this context, a special catalog featuring<br />
older models was created for a target group<br />
“female, 50+”. It transpired that this group<br />
identified highly with the fashion shown, and this<br />
led to an increased turnover. E. Breuninger<br />
GmbH & Co. is not only involved in supporting<br />
research at the Chair <strong>of</strong> Marketing <strong>Management</strong><br />
by cooperating in dissertation projects.<br />
Chairholder Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dr. Manfred Kirchgeorg<br />
was delighted to receive a generous donation<br />
from the company to contribute to the advancement<br />
<strong>of</strong> research in the field <strong>of</strong> branding and<br />
retailing.