Lorenz Graf-Vlachy

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Dr. Lorenz Graf-Vlachy holds the Professorship for Strategic Management and Leadership at TU Dortmund University and is Affiliate Faculty and a Senior Research Fellow at ESCP Business School, as well as an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation.

Dr. Graf-Vlachy’s work has been published in, for example, Organization Science, the Academy of Management Review, the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Management, the Journal of Management Studies, Academy of Management Discoveries, and the Journal of Product Innovation Management. His research has received awards from the Academy of Management (AOM), the European Academy of Management (EURAM), the Strategic Management Society (SMS), and the Förderkreis Gründungs-Forschung (FGF). Dr. Graf-Vlachy further won awards for teaching and reviewing. He serves on the editorial boards of Management Review Quarterly, Corporate Governance: An International Review, the Journal of Management, and the Academy of Management Review. Going beyond the field of management, he has also published in information systems (e.g., ECIS, ICIS), software engineering (e.g., TOSEM, ICSE-NIER, EASE), and medical outlets (e.g., International Journal of Social Psychiatry). His work has been covered by various news media, including the Financial Times, Handelsblatt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Harvard Business Manager, Fortune, and Forbes.

Prior to his current appointment, he was Professor and Chair of Strategy at ESCP Business School in Berlin. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Passau. He also held visiting positions at Harvard University, the University of Georgia, Penn State University, UC Berkeley, Columbia Business School, and IMD International in Lausanne. He received fellowships from the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schoeller Research Center for Business and Society and the Dr. Werner Jackstädt Foundation, was a Barger Leadership Institute Visitor at the University of Michigan, and gave invited talks at various institutions including Tsinghua University, Imperial College London, King’s College London, IIM Bangalore, Rotterdam School of Management, CEIBS, the Stockholm School of Economics, VU Amsterdam, the US Army War College, ESADE, and the University of Oxford. He taught at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Business and ESMT Berlin and performs executive education programs for leading international companies.

Before his academic career, Dr. Graf-Vlachy was a Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Munich, working on strategy and organization projects. He was repeatedly invited to work with the BCG Henderson Institute in New York and was selected for a year-long secondment to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Geneva.

He gained additional experience in Germany, China, and the U.S., working for McKinsey & Company, various IT firms, and a publishing house. He also started a small software company that he sold to a U.S. competitor.

Dr. Graf-Vlachy holds a master’s level degree in Information Systems and a doctoral degree from FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg as well as a habilitation from the University of Passau. He also studied in the MBA program of Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and at Tongji University in Shanghai.

He is a member of various academic societies, including the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, the IEEE (senior member), and the Association for Computing Machinery, as well as the Carnegie Council’s New Leaders program.