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Professor Dr. Hermann Simon ist Vorsitzender der Geschäftsleitung von Simon, Kucher & Partners in Bonn und Cambridge/Massachusetts. Bis 1995 war er Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Management und Marketing in der Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz. Simon absolvierte Gastprofessuren an verschiedenen Universitäten wie der Harvard Business School, der Stanford University, der Keio University, Tokio, und vielen anderen. Im Moment ist er Gastprofessor an der London Business School und außerdem regelmäßiger Kolumnist im 'manager magazin'. Prof. Dr. Christian Homburg ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre und Marketing I und Direktor des Instituts für Marktorientierte Unternehmensführung (IMU) an der Universität Mannheim sowie Vorsitzender des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats von Prof. Homburg & Partner, Mannheim - einer international tätigen Unternehmensberatung.
Christian Homburg holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mathematics and Business Administration and a Ph.D. in Business. From 1989 to 1992 he worked in the industry, serving as a director for strategic planning, marketing and controlling in an international company. In 1995, he received his habilitation degree and soon afterwards, he joined the faculty at the private Koblenz School of Corporate Management (WHU Koblenz in Vallendar, Germany) as a Professor of Marketing. Since 1999, he is on the faculty at the University of Mannheim. Prof. Dr. Christian Homburg is currently serving as co-chair of the marketing department and as the director of the Institute for Market-Oriented Management (IMU). In 2006, he received an honorary doctor from the Copenhagen Business School. His research interests include market-oriented management, customer relationship management and sales management.

He has published numerous articles in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and International Journal of Research in Marketing, and is author of many books. Professor Homburg is also founder and chair of the Advisory Board of Professor Homburg & Partner. Since 1991, this company has been consulting on marketing and sales management with major firms in Europe and USA including BASF, Bosch, Degussa, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank, E.ON, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, Pfizer, Roche, RWE, Shell, Siemens, St. Gobain and ThyssenKrupp. Hermann Simon is Chairman of Simon-Kucher & Partners, Strategy & Marketing Consultants, with offices in Europe, Asia, and the United States. He is an expert in strategy, marketing and pricing, advising clients and speaking to business organizations worldwide. Prior to taking on consulting full-time, he was a professor of business administration and marketing at the Universities of Mainz and Bielefeld, and has served as a visiting professor at many universities, including Harvard Business School, London Business School, INSEAD, Keio University, Stanford, and MIT. Named one of Europe's most influential management thinkers, he has served on the boards of numerous journals, including the International Journal of Research in Marketing, Management Science, and European Management Journal, and has published over 30 books.