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School
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Management
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position
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Christoph Lechner holds the Chair of Strategic Management at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). He is Managing Director of its Institute of Management, Academic Director of its PhD Program in "Strategy & Management", and Head of its multi-disciplinary Excellence Initiative on "Responsible Corporate Competitiveness" (RoCC).
In addition, he serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of Helvetia (insurance industry) and Hügli (food industry), both listed at the Swiss Stock Exchange.
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university status
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professor
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fields of research
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Strategic Management: Prof. Lechner’s present research interests are in the area of business models, strategic initiatives, alliance & network strategy and corporate competitiveness. He has written five books as well as numerous articles in journals and books.
His research has been published in top-ranked academic and managerial journals (based on the Social Science Citation Index) such as Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning, Journal of Business Research, Sloan Management Review, Wall Street Journal, European Business Forum, Harvard Business Manager, Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, IO New Management, Organisationsentwicklung, and others.
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awards
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- Award as Best Lecturer, MBA Program, in 2008 and 2010, University St. Gallen
- Winner of the "Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award 2006" of the Academy of Management &
- Winner of the "Distinguished Paper Award of the Business Policy & Strategy Division of the Academy of Management Conference, Atlanta 2006
- Winner of the "SMS Best Conference Paper Price" (together wich Steven Floyd) of the 25th International Comference of the Strategic Management Society
- One of ten Finalists for the SMS Best Conference Paper Price (together with Dovev Lavie and Habir Singh) of the 24th International Conference of the Strategic Management Society for the paper "The Distribution of Alliance Benefits in Multi-Partner Alliances: The Case of the Wi-Fi Alliance"
- Award for the 'Best German Business Book 2001', with G. Müller-Stewens, for the book: Strategisches Management: Wie Strategische Initiativen zum Wandel führen, Stuttgart 2001: Schäffer-Pöschel
- Dr. Peter-Werhahn-Price for Outstanding Achievements in Business Administration and Philosophy of Science, Unversity of St. Gallen, for the book: The Evolution of Alliance Systems, Bern 1999: Haupt
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affiliations
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- Member of the Editorial Boards of Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning, and Journal of Strategy & Management
- Affiliate Member of the Sloan Industry Studies Program (upon invitation)
- Officer of the Strategic Management Society (Chairman of the Interest Group on Strategy Process, 2007-2010)
- Academy of Management
- Strategic Management Society
- VHB (Association of German-speaking Professors of Management)
- Member of the Supervisory Board of the Institute of Insurance Economics (University of St. Gallen)
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additional inform...
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At the university, Prof. Lechner teaches selected topics of strategy in PhD, MBA and EMBA programs. He has consulted on strategy and educated executives for several companies around the world such as
Allianz, Booz & Company, Clariant, Credit Suisse, Daimler, Munich Re, PWC, SAP, Siemens, Schindler, Swiss Re, Swiss Life, Oracle, Uralita, or UBS. He also is co-founder of the Swiss Virtual Business School AG, a provider of e-based learning programs.
In 2002 he was Guest Professor at the Business School of the University of Connecticut (USA), in 2003 at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (USA), and in 2009 at IAE (Universidad Austral) in Argentina.
During his career, Prof. Lechner received offers for positions as Professor of Strategic Management from Bocconi University (Italy), EM Lyon (France), University Mannheim (Germany), European School of Management and Technology (Germany) and University of St. Gallen (Switzerland).
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