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We welcome our new member in the Supply Chain Management Area at the Department of Strategy and Innovation of the WiSo Faculty.
"I try to understand decisions related to the internal and external value chain of a company as social processes that are shaped by the people who execute them. In my work, I place particular emphasis on the role of collaboration and teamwork." With a statement that is promising in terms of its fit with the WiSo profile, junior professor Henrik Franke outlines his understanding of his research subject.
He started his service at the WiSo Faculty on 01.04.2023. Previously, Henrik Franke was a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) at the Chair of Production and Operation Management. Previously he was active at the German Graduate School of Management and Law in Heilbronn and visited the Kelley School of Business in the fields of supply chain management and logistics.
Henrik Franke began his studies at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, where he graduated in Electrical Industrial Engineering in 2013. This was followed by a Master's degree at EBS University of Business and Law in Wiesbaden with a focus on management and the automotive industry. He also wrote his master's thesis at Robert Bosch GmbH on the topic of using SAP logistics data to identify structural inefficiencies. A stay abroad at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands was followed by obtaining his doctorate at the EBS University of Business and Law at the Institute for Supply Chain Management, where he graduated summa cum laude.
In recent years, Henrik Frankes work has appeared in leading journals like Production and Operations Management and Decision Sciences and he has received various prizes and awards for his research. For example, the Emerald EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award and the ETH Zurich Career Seed Grant.
In the spirit of our motto "Today's Ideas. Tomorrow's Impact", we look forward to welcoming a promising young researcher and wish Professor Franke all the best as he embarks on his new career path at the WiSo.