In the second half of 2011, we again invited several speakers into our Entrepreneurship courses. This time, the emphasis was on Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Development. The guest speakers included Christian Buchenau (Managing Partner, Paua Ventures), Urs Cete (Managing Director BDMI – Bertelsmann Venture Capital), James Downs (Business Development Manager, TRM Institute Leipzig), Jochen Klüppel [...]

In October, I visited the Startup Week Vienna and participated in a panel discussion at the Teccrunch Europe day, one of the most prestigious Entrepreneurship events. In the panel, we discussed opportunities and challenges of Entrepreneurship education in Europe, basically whether entrepreneurs are born or made.

http://www.startupweek2011.com/speaker/stephan-stubner-ger/

In Fall, Christian Buchenau, Managing Partner of Paua Ventures visited HHL for an Entrepreneurship Roundtable, where he discussed the Venture Capital model and success factors in receiving external funding.

https://www.xing.com/profile/Christian_Buchenau

Being part of a very entrepreneurial business school, HHL students often choose to do an internship with a startup company to get a better feeling of how life as an entrepreneur is like. To facilitate networking between startups and students, we organized once again the HHL startup career fair where entrepreneurs present their stories and [...]

Tim Koschella co-founded game marketing company Hitfox together with other renown entrepreneurs. After already having co-founded lecturio.de with HHL alumnus Martin Schlichte, Tim is now supporting the development of heavily funded Hitfox, a company specializing on the marketing of gaming software and accessoires.

http://www.teameurope.net/media/presse/12_08_11_Hitfox_ENG.pdf

If you are interested to learn more about the student initiative Accelerate which fosters entrepreneurship at our school, please check out their web-presence.

http://www.hhl-students.de/accelerate/

For a recent publication from our non-SME oriented research, check Harvard Business Manager

Besides Strategy, one of our key research areas are issues in SME (small- to medium sized enterprises) and family firms. Recently, we analyzed goal orientation in family firms, ambidexterity and its impact on firm performance and decision making behavior of top managers. To engage in international discussions about these topics and to develop cross-institutional research [...]

This week, Jochen Klüppel, HHL-alumnus and partner at Venture Capital firm Grazia Equity, will host the 9th annual Grazia Equity Business Plan Competition at HHL. The jury will be joined by HHL-alumni and entrepreneurs Dirk Graber and Björn Sykora from MisterSpex.The seminar to prepare for the competition is sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce Leipzig [...]

Denis Ranke, Hannes Koch and Wilhelm Strehl from the MBA class are going to the finals of Germany’s largest Business Plan Competition exist priME-cup. After already convincing the jury in both the regional master cup and the state-wide professional cup, they have now been invited to compete for the overall winners’ place.