Dr. Wolfgang Amann - Executive Director Executive Education

Wolfgang Amann GBS Programs
Executive Education seminars

Research focus

  • Innovative patterns in strategizing
  • Optimizing corporate strategy and governance
  • Complexity traps

Dr. oec. (HSG) Wolfgang Amann learned his research skills at the Wharton School in Philadelphia and his executive education skills at IMD in Lausanne. After gathering experience in top management consulting, he has been marketing, designing, directing and delivering executive education seminars for a number of years. He directed in the past the Henley Center for Creative Destruction as well as the Henley Center of Excellence in Case Writing. He has also been Vice-Director of the Executive School at the University of St.Gallen where he was the Executive Director of a variety of international programs including all activities along the ‘value’ chain from program innovations, marketing, admission, operations, career services and alumni management.

He has also been a visiting professor in the field of international strategy and sustainability at Hosei University in Tokyo, Tsinghua in Beijing, the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, ISP in St.Petersburg, Warwick Business School and Henley Business School in the UK.

He now serves as Executive Director of Executive Education at Goethe Business School of the University of Frankfurt where he also teaches top management seminars on strategy and governance. He has written more than 100 case studies for executive education seminars and won the oikos global sustainability case writing award. He has received several best lecturer awards, such as for two times in a row the most prestigious European teaching award for his course on “Corporate strategy and governance: how to add value”, which was chosen as the top course amongst all CEMS courses offered at top business schools in 17 European countries.

He has written several books on corporate strategy, governance, managing complexity, humanism in business and work-life-balance.

News

16 Jan 2012Message from the Deans
Dear Alumni, Friends, and Partners of GBS, The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Goethe University Frankfurt, one...
08 Nov 2011Congratulation to our Graduates
The Class of 2011 of our Goethe Full-Time MBA has graduated! 17 students from seven countries were awarded their...