The research of the Junior Professorship combines the topics of entrepreneurship and finance. We examine the financing structures of startups, incentive mechanisms for company takeovers and the role of financial concepts for strategic decisions.
I have a long-standing academic connection to HHL. I studied here and received my doctorate from my alma mater in 2019. My professional career first took me to Roland Berger as a consultant before I returned to HHL as a Senior Research Associate. In May 2024, I was appointed Junior Professor in Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer. I hold lectures in HHL’s full-time and part-time programs with a focus on Entrepreneurial Finance. In addition, I have also been responsible for Executive Education at HHL as its Academic Director since November 2024.
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With the joint development of the course “Turning Data into Decisions,” HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and think-cell have created a teaching format that combines academic excellence with the demands of modern management practice. Developed by Dr. Louisa Heiduk and Junior Professor Dr. Maximilian Schreiter, the course is available worldwide to university lecturers via the think-cell Academy platform. It consists of five modules and builds competencies in slide writing, data analysis, data visualization, and data storytelling. The program is complemented by hands-on exercises and a comprehensive case study based on real company data. This collaboration highlights HHL’s commitment to designing innovative teaching formats that prepare students for data-driven decision-making and professional communication in an international management environment.
As a partner of IHK Nord Westfalen, HHL contributes its academic expertise to the development of the continuing education program
“Leading in Transformation.” At its core lies the question of how leaders can shape change processes in ways that ensure newly acquired employee competencies do not remain unused, but are effectively transferred into everyday organizational practice. This is precisely where the concept of transformation mentoring comes in: leadership is understood not merely as the accompaniment of change, but as a precondition for enabling learning, capability development and organizational progress to interact productively. Accordingly, the program addresses topics such as learning-oriented organizational cultures, talent development, the strategic use of investments in continuing education, and the long-term retention of skilled employees. Designed as a blended learning format, the program combines academic rigor with concrete practical relevance for organizations. The close involvement of companies also ensures that operational needs and practical experience directly inform the design of the course. The pilot course will officially begin on 29 October 2026. The project is funded under the program “Shaping the World of Work through Social Partnership: Further Training and Promoting Equality” by the German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and the European Union through the European Social Fund Plus.
FTI-Andersch and HHL are deepening their collaboration in the fields of private equity, value creation, and turnaround. At the heart of the partnership is the exchange between academic perspectives and business practice on current questions of corporate development and transaction practice. In doing so, the existing cooperation with the CCTPE | Center for Corporate Transactions and Private Equity led by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schwetzler is being continued and at the same time enriched with new impulses. A particular focus lies on the joint initiatives with Junior Professor Dr. Maximilian Schreiter, who holds the Junior Professorship of Entrepreneurial Finance at HHL. In this way, the partnership creates a framework that deliberately connects research, practice-oriented dialogue, and talent recruitment at the interface of finance and corporate development.
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