HSBA – Ingeborg Gross Research Retreat 2026

Professor Dr Madeleine Rauch is an Associate Professor of Strategy and International Business at the University of Cambridge, as well as a Bye-Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. She has also held positions at Stanford University and Copenhagen Business School. Her research focuses on strategy-making in extreme contexts, such as pandemics and crisis regions like Afghanistan and South Sudan. She is a regular contributor to leading international journals such as the Academy of Management Journal and Organization Science, and is an active member of academic communities including the Strategic Management Society (SMS) and the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS).

Laura Marie Edinger-Schons is Professor of Sustainable Business at the University of Hamburg, Germany. She is also a member of the executive board of the University of Hamburg as Chief Sustainability Officer and head of the Sustainability Office. Until November 2022, she was Professor of Sustainable Business and Vice President Sustainability and Information Provision at the University of Mannheim. In her research she focuses on how organizations can contribute to sustainable development, especially through purpose, participation, and impact measurement.

Professor Dr Markus Scholz has been a Professor of Business Administration, specialising in Responsible Management, at the Technical University of Dresden since October 2022. Previously, he founded and directed the Institute for Business Ethics and Sustainable Strategy (IBES), as well as the Josef Ressel Centre for Collective Action and Responsible Partnerships (JR Center CARe), both in Vienna. In 2016/17, he headed the European Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MoC) network at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on business and human rights, corporate governance, purpose and ethical leadership, and strategic sustainability.