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18FEB 2026
Teaching
More Than Carnival: Plenty of Reasons to Celebrate at FAU
While it’s Carnival season (Fasching) here in Germany, we also had some very special non-costumed reasons to celebrate at the Chair of Industrial Management at FAU. Over the past weeks, Lothar Czaja, Felix Naake, and our head of the chair Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt all celebrated their birthdays – which called for a small joint […]
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10FEB 2026
Teaching
Analyzing the green energy transition of global energy corporations in our seminar with Prof. Heinrich v. Pierer
Driven by climate targets and ESG reporting obligations, global companies are under pressure to redesign their business models to transition to green energy. In our 41st (!) seminar with former Siemens CEO Prof. Heinrich von Pierer, students analyzed how large energy companies are managing this transition. Presentations on BP, Saudi Aramco, and Ørsted showed that […]
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04FEB 2026
Industry Relations
Investigating Digital and Service-based Business Models: Successful final presentations in “Das Industrieseminar” with Prof. Dr. Asenkerschbaumer!
On February 03rd, Prof. Kai-Ingo Voigt and the Chair of Industrial Management once again welcomed Prof. Dr. Stefan Asenkerschbaumer, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Robert Bosch GmbH. As an expert in navigating the challenges of a rapidly changing industrial landscape, Prof. Asenkerschbaumer’s visit offered students the invaluable opportunity to discuss their work with a […]
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02FEB 2026
Teaching
Why do people buy NFTs? New publication in the European Journal of Information Systems!
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) remain a culturally and socially controversial topic. While some envision NFTs as a revolutionary way to (re-)organize ownership, others question their legitimacy altogether. Both sides, however, have asked themselves this question: Why do people buy them? In our newest study, co-authored by Michael Mertel and Kai-Ingo Voigt and recently published in the […]
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26JAN 2026
Teaching
When Student Research Meets Real-World Industry Challenges
As part of the latest edition of the seminar “Strategies of Technology-Oriented Industrial Firms” selected students had the chance to discuss their research findings with Dr. Roland Busch, President and CEO of Siemens AG, and Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt. During the final session on January 26th, three student teams presented their work on key innovation […]
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23JAN 2026
Guest Lectures
Captivating guest lecture by Bosch Rexroth!
Professor Voigt and Professor Müller were proud to welcome Max Henneberg, Johannes Veile, Markus Fischer, Jana Koßner and Lucas Gimmler from Bosch Rexroth Volkach today. They presented insights on how digital technologies such as robotics and AI shape production planning and material handling of the future. The students could connect their knowledge from the lecture […]
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