Added value through interdisciplinary networking

The Institute for Growth and Innovation has established four boards based on an interdisciplinary, integrative and virtual approach.

The role of the boards is to provide support for developing innovative client solutions which are creative as well as practicable and which result in long-lasting success for the client. This involves looking at issues from different perspectives and requires a variety of capabilities: entrepreneurial and operative leadership skills and sound business sense are as important as competencies in business and non-business areas such as art, culture and literature coupled with access to the latest academic research results.

The Academic, Business, Leadership and Studium Fundamentale Boards assure these capabilities.

Academic board:

The Academic Board provides access to the latest academic research results. Members of the Academic Board:

Prof. Homa Bahrami
Senior Lecturer Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Prof. David Collis
adjunct Professor of International Business Administration at the Yale University, 
School of Management

Stuart Evans, Ph.D.
Senior Associate am Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge, England

Prof. Michael G. Rukstad
Senior Research Fellow,
Senior Vice President HBSi and Head of the MBA Strategy Course at the Harvard Business School

Business board:

The Business Board consists of members holding leading management positions in industry. The Board ensures permanent and fast access to the leadership and management capabilities necessary to develop client solutions for implementation. Members of the Business Board:

Dr. Reinhard J. Ambros
Head Group Strategic Planning, Novartis International AG

Peter Edelmann
Member of the Board, Voith AG

Detlef D. Exner
Member of the Board, DB Systel GmbH (IT-TC- subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG)

Prof. Dr. Erich Joachimsthaler
Chief Executive Officer, Vivaldi Brand Leadership Company, New York

Michael W. Müller
Chairman of the executive board, MB Tech Consulting GmbH (subsidiary of Daimler AG)

Leadership board:

The Leadership Board consists of members holding top management positions in industry. The Board ensures access to the entrepreneurial and leadership capabilities necessary to develop growth solutions that can be implemented. Members of the Leadership Board:

Josef Ellmauer
CEO, Cogisum Intermedia AG

Thomas P. Limberger
CEO, Von Roll Holding AG, Zürich

Dr. Heinz Rzehak
CEO, Rütgers Chemicals GmbH

Studium Fundamentale board:

The Studium Fundamentale Board ensures the interdisciplinary transfer of ideas between the science of management and other faculties such as humanities and/or cultural studies. This provides reflexive, communicative and creative capabilities, which are essential for the development of innovative and creative solutions for clients. Members of the Studium Fundamentale Board:

Prof. Dr. phil. Michael Bockemühl
University Witten/Herdecke
Lehrstuhl für Kunstwissenschaft, Ästhetik und Kunstvermittlung

Miha Pogacnik
Solo violinist, cultural ambassador of Slovenia