Management Series

Systematic innovation management is an important requirement for the long-term survival of a company. Academia and business practice have both come to the conclusion that corporate venturing can be a suitable tool to make companies more innovative, more flexible and more decisive …  >>

In view of the climate change, the weather is expected to become more volatile in the future. Utilities are hit harder than companies in other industries by the resulting weather risks …  >>

In the last few years a large number of mergers have failed to add value, but instead destroyed shareholder capital. Up to now, the blame was usually put on failed post merger integration …  >>

Holger von Daniels, Thesis (in German), 2005

Private equity is usually invested in closed-end funds. Secondary transactions, i.e. the early sale of private equity shares, are therefore complex and entail high discounts. The creation of an institutionalized secondary market would amount to a small revolution …  >>

Technological progress has strongly shaped sales channel policies in retail banking over the last decade. Next to telephone and Internet, banks have discovered mobile phones and mobile terminals as sales channels …  >>