Karlheinz Schwuchow

Karlheinz Schwuchow (* 1958 in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) ) is a German business economist . He has been Professor of International Management and Head of the CIMS Center for International Management Studies at the University of Bremen since 1999 .

biography

Schwuchow grew up in Großenkneten in the Oldenburg district and attended the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium in the Ahlhorn district . After graduating from high school and doing military service, he studied business administration at Bielefeld University , which was followed by a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in the USA at the University of Georgia . He worked from 1985 to 1991 in leadership development at the University Seminar of Economics (USW), today's European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) in the lock canal and doctorate at Hermann Simon Dr. rer. pole.

From 1992 to 1996 Schwuchow worked in personnel and management consulting, initially as a division manager at the Institute for Personnel and Corporate Management (INPUT) in Paderborn , now part of the Haufe Lexware Group, and then as a managing associate at the strategy consulting firm of Computer Sciences Corporation CSC Index in San Francisco and Munich . He then set up the Institute for Continuing Education at the Center for Financial Studies (CFS) in Frankfurt am Main as the founding managing director . As a division manager at Mummert + Partner Unternehmensberatung AG - today Sopra Steria Consulting AG - in Hamburg he was responsible for the conception of knowledge management. In 1990, Schwuchow and Joachim Gutmann founded the Personnel Development Yearbook, which has been published since 2017 under the title "HR Trends".

From 2001 to 2004 Schwuchow was managing director of the GISMA Business School in Hanover as a university lecturer on a partial leave of absence . Between 2005 and 2007 he was the founding representative for the Center for Leadership, Innovation, and Change at Jacobs University Bremen . In autumn 2006 he was appointed to the scientific advisory board of the TiasNimbas Business School of the University of Tilburg and the University of Eindhoven and in the academic year 2010/2011 he was the scientific director (Dean) of the Limak Austrian Business School as well as professor for international human resource management at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz / Austria.

Schwuchow has been a member of the founding advisory board of the Center for Future Design at the University of Artistic and Industrial Design Linz (Art University Linz) since 2016 . In 2019, he was named a Distinguished Principal Research Fellow Human Capital by The Conference Board , an independent research institute based in New York, which includes more than 1,200 public and private companies and other organizations worldwide.

In 2010 Schwuchow taught as part of a short-term lecturer at the IIT Madras (Indian Institute for Technology) in Chennai / India; 2013 at the USP University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, 2016 at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa and in 2019 at the Renmin University of China in Beijing / China.

His main areas of work include a. Management development , international personnel management as well as strategy and organizational development.

Publications (selection)

Author and editor of over 30 book publications and more than 100 journal articles, a. a .:

• Training management , Stuttgart 1992.
• Management learning and strategy (with Hermann Simon), Stuttgart 1994.
• Executive Education (with Reiner Neumann and Malte Mevissen), Munich 2003.
• Personnel development yearbook (with Joachim Gutmann), Düsseldorf / Cologne / Munich 1991–2016.
• HR-Trends (with Joachim Gutmann), Munich 2017 -
• International Human Resources Management , Freiburg 2018.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karlheinz Schwuchow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography on the website of the University of Bremen