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From the monthly archives: October 2009
On October 29-30 HHL hosted the first HHL healthcare challenge for business ideas in the healthcare sector. The challenge was conducted parallel to the global congress on regenerative medicine in Leipzig and organized by Christian Elsner from the HHL Center for Healthcare management. Read more on the event here [...]
Online travel site travel-IQ from HHL-alumnus Konstantin Schlüter recently got a new shareholder. Comparions engine check24.de acquired the shares that media company Burda was holding of travel-IQ. Check24 itself is financed by Accel partners and the European Founders Fund. Read more here.
Once again WHU hosted the leading student-organized entrepreneurship event in Germany, the ideaLab!. Check put Gründerszene for a debrief.
Nice article on CNN about the productivity tools that Bill Gates is using to organize his workday. Basically he combines 3 (!) screens, a tablet pc, one-note, sharepoint and a classical whiteboard marker. Hm, four out of five – my career is sooo sure.
Online social lending platform smava.de, where HHL alumnus Sebastian Rieschel is a co-founder, has again been tested best-in-class by the leading German customer advice service Stiftung Warentest. Read more here and here.
Serial entrepreneur Sven Schmidt, co-founder of e.g. verwandt.de, dealjaeger.de and others joined the team of Earlybird, one of the leading early-stage venture capitalists in Germany. As a venture partner, he weill remain active as a managing director in his holding companies OSN GmbH [...]
HHL alumnus Richard Schmitz was recently interviewed and featured by HHL with regards to a recent study the chair of strategic management and organisation conducted. The study itself aimed to understand the impact of the financial crisis on the strategic behavior of family businesses. Richard Schmitz agreed that family businesses generally [...]
At betreut.de users can search for (tested) dogsitters, household helps etc. Recently, the service founded by Steffen Zoller was featured and recommended for the high quality of its babysitter service, the offering they originally started with. Read more here.Other recent features of betreut.de include fem.com [...]
Billigflieger, one of Germany’s leading meta travel engines from HHL-alumnus Marcel Radzei recently released a study which is based on its huge database. After analyzing the data of over 20 Mio. travellers with over 2 billion search requests billigflieger developed the "Flugmonitor 2008" which will continue to be published [...]
Mobile TV broadcaster dailyme.tv from HHL alumnus Stefan Bielau apparently has secured partnerships with media giant NBC Universal and gamona. read more here and here.
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In its "European Business Schools 2009" ranking the Financial Times ranked HHL's full-time MBA Program No. 1 in Germany and No. 34 in Europe.
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