Teachers
MBA Business in a Digital World
Faculty
Prof. Dr. Susanne Bleich
Prof. Dr. Susanne Bleich has been the head of the MBA Business in a Digital World since January 2019. She studied Roman Philology (French / Spanish) and Public Law with a focus on International and European Law at the Georg-August University Göttingen and Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. She also studied Lettres Modernes at the Université de Haute Bretagne, Rennes, France (DAAD Scholarship). With a doctoral scholarship from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, she received her doctorate in Freiburg on hermeneutics.
Since 1993, Dr. Bleich has been a Full Professor of Roman Languages and English at the University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, from 1993-1996 at the Faculty of Business Administration. Since 1995, she is liaison lecturer at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom and is a member of the Selection Committee to choose talented students for a liberal scholarship. From 1996-2000 she was the founding Dean of the Faculty of Languages, and held the position of Dean of that Faculty from 2000-2003. She also holds a visiting professorship for International and European Economic Law at Tongji University in Shanghai. Returning from sabbatical in 2008, she has been been full-time Professor in the Faculty of Business Administration.
Dipl.-Kfm. (FH) Jonathan Hofmann, M. A.
Jonathan Hofmann studied business administration at the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau from 2003 to 2008, majoring in corporate finance, management and accounting/internal auditing. Between 2008 and 2010 he completed a Master's postgraduate course at the same institution with a specialisation in management accounting. From 2012 to 2014 he was employed as a junior researcher at the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences Zwickau in a project financed by the ESF on the topic of "Financial Controlling on the Basis of Cash Flow Statements", which was supervised by Prof. Dr. habil. Dr. h. c. Bernd Zirkler, professor for General Business Administration, in particular accounting/controlling.
Since 2015 he has been a lecturer at the Chair of General Business Administration, in particular accounting/management accounting, and since 2016 at the Faculty of Applied Arts Schneeberg. In addition, he was head of management accounting at noris network AG, Nuremberg between 2016 and 2020. Since 2016 he has been working on his doctorate degree in cooperation with the University of the West of Scotland, Paisley. He researches and publishes on topics related to corporate management accounting, especially in the context of the Basel regulatory framework for banking supervision.
Prof. Dr. Edward P. Borodzicz
Edward works as an educator, trainer/consultant and advisor to Governments, Organisations and Universities. Initially trained as a Social Anthropologist and Psychologist, receiving his PhD from London University, a masters from University of Kent, Canterbury and Brunel Universities. Edward’s research interests include: risk, crisis, resilience and security management. Edward worked extensively over the past 27 years with the emergency and security services, local and central government agencies, a variety of companies and key organisations and Universities throughout the world.
Edward’s recent academic appointments include a Professorship in Risk and Crisis Management, Assistant Dean at UWS (University of the West of Scotland) in October 2014. Edward has also acted as visiting Professor both in the UK and international settings including ETHZ Zurich, Cranfield UK and the UK Cabinet office college (EPC).
Edward appears frequently in the media, on BBC television and Radio and also a variety of independent broadcasting networks and major daily journals. Edward also appeared on BBC World Service, SKY (television), and a variety of other international media platforms following major events such as the 7/7 bombings in London, Grenfell Fire and on the BBC world service.
Edward advised the UK Cabinet Office on the production of BSi (Britisch Standart) PAS 200 and BSi 11200 (equivalent to ISO norm) for the British Standards Institute on Crisis Management, published in September 2011 and 2014 respectively, representing the first officially government sponsored standard for crisis in the world.
Dr. Hagen Habicht
Dr. Hagen Habicht is an internationally renowned expert in the field of open and user innovation. His scientific work covers virtual communities, mass customization, and corporate open innovation. As an entrepreneur, he focuses on the development of corporate innovation systems and, more generally, on the development of corporate innovation capabilities. This includes designing and supporting user-centered product and service developments as an innovation consultant.
Dr. Habicht is co-founder (2016) and managing director of Digital Impact Labs Leipzig GmbH. Having earned his PhD from TU Munich in 2009, he joined HHL - Leipzig Graduate School of Management as a PostDoc researcher and initiator of HHL’s open innovation research group. In 2011 he continued as Executive Director of HHL’s Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation.
Dr. Habicht is co-founder (2016) and managing director of Digital Impact Labs Leipzig GmbH. Having earned his PhD from TU Munich in 2009, he joined HHL - Leipzig Graduate School of Management as a PostDoc researcher and initiator of HHL’s open innovation research group. In 2011 he continued as Executive Director of HHL’s Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation.
Prof. Dr. Uta Kremer
Uta Kremer`s expertise is in intercultural communication and international management. Her graduate degrees (first and second state exam, equivalent to Master’s degrees) are in German, American, and British Studies and education, her PhD from Leipzig University is in Intercultural Business. She is currently a Professor of Business English and International Business Competencies at the University of Applied Sciences Zwickau. Her research focuses on the intercultural analysis of international businesses and its materialization in coaching, controlling, and onboarding.
Prof. Kremer also has extensive experience in intercultural coaching of commercial enterprises (American Chamber of Commerce, Dow Chemical, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig Economic Development Office) and at universities in Germany and abroad as a lecturer and practitioner in International Management (Leipzig University, HTWK Leipzig, HHL Leipzig, HTW Dresden, University of Minnesota Duluth, Greenville University South Carolina, Kings College London, Amsterdam University, University of Zagreb, Tehran University, Allameh Tabatabai University Iran). Previous employments include the Publications Department at the United Nations in New York and establishing an undergraduate program in Digital Humanities for the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities Leipzig.
Vert. -Prof. Dr. Kevin Reuther
Vertr.-Prof. Dr. Kevin Reuther is an international expert in the field of systemic innovation research. He studied Business Administration with a focus on information logistics, marketing and business management in Germany and the United Kingdom. He received his PhD from the University of the West of Scotland on “A Systems Theory Perspective of Interconnected Influence Factors on Front-End Innovation: The Role of Organizational Structures”, where he received a full scholarship from the Manchester Research and Development Management Association (RADMA). His scientific mentors include Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Christian-Andreas Schumann, Prof. Dr. Edward P. Borodzicz, Prof. Dr. Milan Radosavljevic and James B. Johnston. Since December 2019, Dr. med. Reuther works as a substitute professor at the University of Applied Sciences Zwickau where he teaches innovation management, research methodology and business English with a focus on system-theoretical approaches in the areas of innovation processes and entrepreneurship.
Dr. Reuther is a member of the Scientific Committee of several international conferences and institutions as well as Co-Founder and Exectuive Director of the Continental Network of the British Academy of Management, whose goal is to promote academic exchange between the UK and Continental Europe. He also advises academic institutions and companies on strategy development for international cooperation and innovation management.
Dr. Leontin Karl Grafmüller
Dr. Leontin Grafmüller is an innovation professional with a focus on co-creation, digital customer engagement and business model innovation. With a PhD from HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management, his work deals mainly with the B2B high-tech domain. Currently, he manages his own innovation consultancy INA Consult and works as advisor for the president of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.