Prof. Dr. Jan Freidank

General data:

Born in 1968
Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.) in Strategic Management with Prof. H. Igor Ansoff
(1994) – Topic of Dissertation: “Managing Transformational Change in German Business Firms”, MBA (1991), B.S. in International Business (1990) from United States International University in San Diego
Seven years of professional experience with KarstadtQuelle AG as internal consultant charged with marketing and strategy projects, Assistant to the CEO in charge of co-ordination of synergy projects in the merger between Karstadt and Quelle, Head of the Business Development Department and with Vaillant GmbH.
Last position: project leader of the marketing and sales integration project between Vaillant GmbH and Hepworth plc. – the biggest European merger in the heating appliances sector so far
Starting in January 2002 as professor of Marketing and International Business at the University of Applied Sciences Giessen-Friedberg
Program director for the MA International Marketing Program and the Executive MBA program
ongoing consultancies and sponsored research:selected projects with companies including Eby Lilly, ARDEX, BPIe.V., Nebus, City of Wetzlar, Holzapfel Group
Archivary work for the "Wissenschaftsrat" (Science advisory Board of the German Government)
Supporting professor at the marketing students’ association MTP: Marketing zwischen Theorie und Praxis – Germany's largest student marketing association

Publications:

Freidank, Jan (2008): "Ranking der Wirtschaftsbereiche" Die neue Hochschule, Bonn, Band 49, Heft 2/08, S. 24-27
Freidank, Jan / Birkenhäger, Jochen (2004): "Die Optimierung von Kundenbeziehungen, Eine neue Dienstleistung stellt sich vor", Pharma Marketing Journal, 4/2004
Freidank, Jan (2007): "Organisationsentwicklung und Change", ZFU International Business School, Lektion 9, Fernlehrgang für Nicht-Betriebswirte, Thalwil, Zürich
Freidank, Jan (2007): "Strategieumsetzung und Change", ZFU International Business School, Lektion 10, Fernlehrgang "Strategisches Management", Thalwil, Zürich
Freidank, Jan (1994): "Managing Transformational Change in German Business Firms", Dissertation at the United States International University, Sand Diego, USA