Professor Martin Glaum

Martin Glaum holds the Chair of International Accounting at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. He is also a Visiting Professor at Toulouse School of Management. Over his career, he held several other visiting positions, for example, at the University of Michigan,
St. Gallen University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of International Business & Economics Beijing, Bocconi University, Milan, and IE Business School, Madrid.

Professor Glaum’s research interests are in the areas of financial manage­ment, accounting and reporting. He has published books and articles in leading international journals, such as The Accounting Review, European Accounting Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Long Range Planning, European Journal of Operational Research. In his latest work, published in the Strategic Management Journal, he investigates how important CEOs are for the performance of their companies, and how one can examine this question empirically.

He has been active in academic organizations, for example, as a member of the Board of Directors of the German Association of Professors of Business Administration, the Executive Committee of the International Association of Accounting Education and Research, and the Research Advisory Board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Professor Glaum works closely with corporate practice. He is the academic head of the working party Growth Strategies and International Management of the Schmalenbach Association that brings together academics and senior executives from large companies. He works as a consultant and teaches in corporate development programs. At the WHU, he is the Academic Director of the Executive Seminar The Digital CFO.

Martin Glaum is also the Co-Host of the Podcast Leading Corporate Transformation – a WHU Podcast, powered by PwC, that can be accessed, for example, through Spotify, Amazon Music, or Google Podcasts.