Culture isn’t all about national mentality

Why do managers who excel in their native country fail to be as successful abroad? The main culprit here is cultural differences. Andrey Shapenko is Associate Professor at the SKOLKOVO Business School explains how to outperform – in his VIEWPOINT

Profilerin Grieger-Langer verurteilt

Das Landgericht Frankfurt hat der Hochstaplerin Grieger-Langer mehrere falsche Tatsachenbehauptungen verboten. Sie basieren teils auf Aussagen von Jack Nasher, einem Professor der Munich Business School.

Professor Dr. Andreas Pinkwart, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management

With her report and commentary on the topics MBA & Co., Bärbel Schwertfeger regularly hits the bulls eye. Her work mainly focuses on the quality of the research and teaching. Due to the relatively short-term effect of the Bologna Reform in Germany, the engaging and, above all, expertly produced reports by Bärbel Schwertfeger are, not just for representatives from the field of education but also for those from the economy, significant guideposts. Since 2011 Professor Andreas Pinkwart was the Dean at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management. He studied macroeconomics and business administration at the University of Münster and the University of Bonn from where he obtained his doctoral degree in 1991, with a thesis supervised by Professor Horst Albach. Subsequently Professor Pinkwart ran the office of the FDP’s (Free Democratic Party) leader of the parliamentary group in the German Bundestag from 1991 to 1994. In 1994 he became a professor for economics and business administration in Düsseldorf from where he later moved to the University of Siegen to accept a chair for business administration. Being on a sabbatical leave from 2002 to 2011, Professor Pinkwart was a Member of the German Bundestag (2002 – 2005) and Minister for Innovation, Science, Research and Technology as well as Deputy Prime Minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (2005 – 2010). Since June 2017 he is State Minister for Economic Affairs, Digitization, Innovation and Energy in North Rhine-Westphalia and still chairholder of the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank Chair of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at HHL (on sabbatical leave).

MBA-Programme: Online ist oft besser

Online-MBAs sind auf dem Vormarsch. Denn so sparen sich Teilnehmer lange Auszeiten im Beruf. Mit dem klassischen Fernstudium haben die neuen Studiengänge allerdings nur wenig gemeinsam. Denn ihr Ziel ist es, dank moderner Technologien die soziale Dynamik des Klassenzimmers nachzubilden. Viel günstiger als ein Vollzeit-MBA sind die Online-MBAs dabei aber nicht. Weiterlesen auf Spiegel online