Strategy & Leadership

The Department of Strategy & Leadership brings together professors who address the central challenges of contemporary corporate management, ranging from strategy, leadership, and organisation to governance, ethics, and sustainability, as well as digitalisation, innovation, and global development. The department coordinates teaching in these areas across HSBA’s Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes. Theory is continuously reflected against real-world business challenges and applied and tested in practice-oriented formats.

Our mission is to empower future leaders to actively shape business and society with an innovative mindset, a strong sense of responsibility, and global foresight. We foster a culture of entrepreneurial thinking and provide students with the competencies needed to create long-term value through interactive teaching formats.

Members of the department are actively engaged in applied research and maintain close collaborations with companies and academic institutions. Intensive exchange with practice strengthens knowledge transfer as well as the relevance and applicability of our teaching.

The following areas outline the research activities of the Department of Strategy & Leadership, each contributing perspectives to the development of recommendations for responsible and future-oriented corporate management:

• Strategic management, innovation, and transformation
• Sustainability, governance, and ethics
• Organisational behaviour, organisational learning, and capability development
• Employee-centered management and HR analytics
• Digital value creation, technology adoption, and responsible technology use
• Internationalisation and global corporate development