Profile
Lorenz Graf-Vlachy is Chaired Professor of Strategic Management and Leadership at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Senior Research Fellow at ESCP Business School, as well as International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation.
His work has been published in, for example, the Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Management, the Journal of Management Studies, Academy of Management Discoveries, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Research Policy, and the Journal of Product Innovation Management. He serves or has served on various editorial boards, including for the Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, and the Journal of Management, and has been a guest editor for special issues of Research Policy and the Journal of Operations Management. Going beyond the field of management, he has also published in information systems (e.g., ECIS, ICIS), software engineering (e.g., ICSE-NIER, TOSEM), and medical outlets (e.g., EJPT, IJSP). His work has been covered by various news media, including the Financial Times, Handelsblatt, Der Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Harvard Business Manager, Business Insider, Forbes, and Fortune.
Prior to his current appointment, he was Professor for Strategic Management and Leadership at TU Dortmund University and Professor and Chair of Strategy at ESCP Business School. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Passau. He held visiting positions at other universities, for instance Harvard University, UC Berkeley, and Columbia Business School.
He received fellowships from the Schoeller Research Center for Business and Society, the Jackstädt Foundation, the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society as well as the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, and he gave invited talks at various institutions, including Tsinghua University, Imperial College London, Rotterdam School of Management, CEIBS, the US Army War College, ESADE, and the University of Oxford. He taught at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Business, FU Berlin, and ESMT Berlin and performs executive education programs for leading international companies.
Before his academic career, he was a Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Munich. 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. Prior, he had started a small software company that he sold to a U.S. competitor.
He holds a master’s level degree in Information Systems and a doctorate in Strategic Management from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, a doctorate in Software Engineering from TUM, as well as a habilitation from the University of Passau. He also studied at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and at Tongji University in Shanghai. He is a graduate of the International Teachers Programme.
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 (senior member).