Ulrich Lichtenthaler
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Ulrich Lichtenthaler (born 1978) is a German economist and executive consultant who is the inventor of the PUMO framework as an extension and substitute of the VUCA world. He is Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the International School of Management in Cologne. He held the Chair of Management and Organization at the University of Mannheim until March 2015.
Ulrich Lichtenthaler studied European Economy at the Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg and at the Universidad de Granada, graduating with a double degree as Dipl.-Kfm. and European Master of Business Sciences (E.M.B.Sc.). He went on to receive a doctorate at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management under Prof. Holger Ernst at the chair for Technology and Innovation Management in 2006, writing a dissertation with the title Leveraging Knowledge Assets: Success Factors of External Technology Commercialization.[1]
In late 2009, he received his Habilitation with a thesis by publication at the WHU before becoming a visiting professor at Technische Universität Berlin for a few months. Then, he followed a call by his alma mater in February 2010 and became professor of the newly created chair for Innovation and Organization at the WHU. Lichtenthaler then held the Chair of Management and Organization at the University of Mannheim from 2011 to 2015.
He joined the International School of Management as professor in 2018.[2]
