Hermann Simon (Manager)

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Hermann Simon, 2009

Hermann Simon (born February 10, 1947 in Hasborn ) is a German management consultant and entrepreneur. Simon is a retired economics professor, author, speaker, and since 1988 a columnist in manager magazin .

Career

Simon grew up on a farm in the Eifel . In 1966 he graduated from the Cusanus-Gymnasium in Wittlich . From 1967 to 1969 he served with Fighter Bomber Wing 33 in Büchel. He is a reserve officer . After studying economics and business administration in Cologne and Bonn from 1969 to 1973, he received his doctorate in 1976. In 1979 he completed his habilitation with Horst Albach in Bonn.

University career

From 1979 to 1989 Simon taught business administration and marketing at Bielefeld University , and from 1989 to 1995 at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . From 1984 to 1986 he was also President of the European Marketing Academy and from 1985 to 1988 Scientific Director of the University Seminar for Economics, now the European School of Management and Technology .

He taught as visiting professor at numerous universities: 1978 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1979 at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna , 1983 at the Keiō University in Tokyo, 1984 at Stanford University , at INSEAD in Fontainebleau (1980–1985) the Harvard Business School (1988-1989) and the London Business School (1991-2002).

Simon has published in academic journals such as Management Science and Journal of Marketing Research, as well as more practical journals such as Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review . In 1995, Simon ended his academic career.

Company founder

In 1985, Simon founded the consulting company Simon-Kucher & Partners . From 1995 to 2009 he was Chairman of the Management Board . Since 2009 he has been Chairman of Simon-Kucher, and when he reached the age of 70, he became “Honorary Chairman”. He was co-founder of "Helikos", the first special-purpose acquisition company on a German stock exchange.

author

Simon is the author of more than 30 books published in 26 languages. His books on price management have become standard works around the world.

He dealt particularly intensively with medium-sized world market leaders otherwise only known to the specialist world, for whom he coined the term " hidden champions ".

honors and awards

Simon is the recipient of the 2009 Practitioner Prize of the Erich Gutenberg Working Group "for the connection between business theory and business practice". For the work “Price Management” (2010), Simon and Martin Fassnacht received the Georg Bergler Prize for Sales Management . Furthermore, Simon 2012 is the winner of the Business-to-Business-Service-Award of Lünendonk GmbH in the category Lifetime Achievement. The Association of University Lecturers for Business Administration awarded Simon the “Science-oriented Entrepreneur of the Year 2012” prize. In the same year Hermann Simon received the “Mittelstands-Buch 2012” award from the Oskar Patzelt Foundation . In 2013 the French Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques awarded Simon the Prix ​​Zerilli Marimo together with Stéphan Guinchard . A little later, Simon - again together with Stéphan Guinchard - received the second-placed Prix ​​de la Fondation ManpowerGroup pour l'emploi , which the Fondation ManpowerGroup awards together with students from the École des hautes étudeses de Paris .

In 2009 Simon received an honorary doctorate from the Slovenian IEDC-Bled School of Management , where he is a member of the IEDC International Advisory Board and where he lectures regularly.

In 2011 the University of Siegen and in 2012 the Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego in Warsaw awarded him a further honorary doctorate.

Simon has been Honorary President of the Association of German Hidden Champions eV since 2019

Fonts

  • Price units - Everything you need to know about prices , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39910-2 .
  • Hidden Champions - Departure to Globalia , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39714-6 .
  • The economic trends of the future , Campus, Frankfurt am Main, 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39363-6 .
  • 33 Immediate measures against the crisis. Paths for your company , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-38999-8 .
  • with Martin Fassnacht: Preismanagement , Gabler, new edition, 2009, ISBN 978-3-409-39142-9 .
  • Hidden champions of the 21st century. The success strategies of unknown world market leaders , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38380-4 .
  • with Frank Bilstein, Frank Luby: The profit-oriented manager. Farewell to market share thinking , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-593-38113-8 .
  • Think - Strategic corporate management instead of short-term thinking , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 978-3-593-37435-2 .
  • (Ed.) Strategy in competition. 50 tangible statements on effective corporate management , FAZ book, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3-89981-001-1 .
  • with Andreas von der Gathen: The large manual of strategy instruments , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 978-3-593-36993-8 .
  • (Ed.) The large manual of strategy concepts , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 978-3-593-36410-0 .
  • with Robert J. Dolan: Profit through Power Pricing , Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1997, ISBN 978-3-593-35802-4 .
  • The secret winners , Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1996, ISBN 3-593-35460-8 .
  • Simon for managers , Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 978-3-430-18524-0 .
  • Price strategies for new products (= contributions to business research , volume 46). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1976, ISBN 3-531-11378-X ( Dissertation University of Bonn , Faculty of Law and Political Science, 1976).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Prof. Dr. Dr. hc mult. Hermann Simon, Personal Background. www2.simon-kucher.com, accessed on December 20, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ CV. hermannsimon.com, accessed December 20, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c Hermann Simon turns 70. simon-kucher.com, January 26, 2017, accessed on December 20, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Heritage. www2.simon-kucher.com, accessed December 20, 2017 .
  5. ↑ PRESS RELEASE. exceet.com, June 7, 2011, accessed December 20, 2017 .
  6. ^ Dietmar H. Lamparter: A treasure trove. "Hidden Champions". In: The time . August 16, 2012, accessed February 24, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Practitioner Prize. In: Homepage of the Erich-Gutenberg-Arbeitsgemeinschaft eV. Accessed on February 24, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Authors of the “price management classic” receive the Georg Bergler Prize. In: Marketing . March 3, 2011, accessed February 24, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dres. Hc Hermann Simon honored by the media jury for his life's work
  10. ↑ Award ceremony 2012
  11. ^ Prix ​​Zerilli Marimo 2013
  12. ↑ 18th Edition du Prix de la Fondation ManpowerGroup pour l'emploi - Pascal Croset, Hermann Simon et Stéphan Guinchard récompensés
  13. ^ IEDC Honorary Professorship and Doctor Honoris Causa Recipients ( Memento from September 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ independent.co.uk: Gurus
  15. ↑ Honorary doctorate for Professor Dr. Dr. hc Hermann Simon
  16. ↑ Professor Hermann Simon has been awarded the doctorate honoris causa degree by Kozminski University.
  17. ↑ VDHC. Retrieved on August 13, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Simon, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager, economics professor and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Hasborn (Eifel)