Academic Director, Kellogg-WHU Executive MBA Program, Chair of the Institute for Industrial Organization at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
Jürgen Weigand is Chair Professor of Microeconomics and Industrial Organization at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar and Düsseldorf, Germany. Professor Weigand earned Masters, doctoral and post-doctoral degrees in Economics from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. Before joining the WHU in 2000, he held post-doctoral positions at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, and at the Institute for Development Strategies in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University, Bloomington. Professor Weigand also worked as a fulltime senior advisor for the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, the Dutch government’s economic think tank in The Hague.
Professor Weigand’s areas of expertise are industrial economics, business strategy, competition policy, and corporate governance. He has advised companies of various sizes across industries, such as automotive, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, ICT, and energy, on business strategy, international expansion and related issues. He has recently co-authored the book “Hope Is Not A Strategy” (Campus Publishers, 2023, distributed by Chicago University Press in the USA) which is based on his vast consulting experience. It provides firms with a practical framework for the entire strategy process, from strategy design to strategy implementation and execution.
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