| strategic & op. management
| international marketing
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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