Christopher Kummer
{{Short description|German economist and professor of finance}}
Christopher Kummer (born 18 March 1975) is a German economist. He currently serves as a professor of finance at Hult International Business School.{{Cite web|url=http://www.hult.edu/en/about-us/faculty/christopher-kummer/|title = Faculty}}
Life
Kummer was born on 18 March 1975 in Frankfurt. After graduating from Benedictine School in Engelberg, Switzerland in 1995 he completed his graduate studies in Strategy and Finance in 1999 at the University of St. Gallen with a dissertation supervised by Georg von Krogh.{{citation|surname1=Christopher Kummer|title=Mult-headquartered firms: a strategic analysis|location=St. Gallen|language=de}} He received his PhD from Technische Universität Berlin in 2005 with a dissertation on mergers and acquisitions.{{citation|surname1=Christopher Kummer|title=Internationale Fusions- und Akquisitionsaktivität - Historische Entwicklung, Verbreitung und strategische Intentionen|date=8 December 2005|publisher=Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag|location=Wiesbaden|pages=293|isbn=978-3-8350-0178-7|language=German}}
From 2004 to 2014 he was a professor at Webster University Vienna where he founded the Institute for Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances (IMAA) and began a professional partnership with Michael E. Porter.{{Cite web |url=http://webster.ac.at/sites/webster.ac.at/files/attachments/1304_WebsterUniversity_Harvard_Kooperation.pdf |title=Webster University Vienna kooperiert mit Harvard Business School. Webster University Vienna im Netzwerk "Microeconomics of Competitveness" aufgenommen |access-date=2016-11-10 |archive-date=2016-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109235237/http://webster.ac.at/sites/webster.ac.at/files/attachments/1304_WebsterUniversity_Harvard_Kooperation.pdf |url-status=dead}} As an advisor he led the HR Transaction Services unit from 2007 to 2009 at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Zürich, Switzerland.[https://ch.linkedin.com/in/christopherkummer Christopher Kummer] auf LinkedIn Since 2012 he is a professor of finance at Hult International Business School.
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External links
- [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FJMuPlcAAAAJ Publications Google Scholar]
- [http://www.imaa-institute.org Institute for Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances (IMAA)]
- [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher_Kummer Research Gate]
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Category:Scientists from Frankfurt
Category:Hult International Business School faculty
Category:Webster University faculty