Walter Kuemmerle

Customized High-level Executive Education and Strategic Advisory Services

Respected Business Academic and Advisor

Walter Kuemmerle and his team provide customized high-level executive education and strategic advisory services. Walter is a well-respected, leading business academic with a strong research and teaching record. He also has profound practical business experience. Walter has access to a broad and deep network of outstanding academic colleagues and excellent management teachers around the world.

With strong classroom skills, Walter offers unbiased, straightforward advice from a general management perspective. Programs can be in person, virtual, or hybrid. Walter’s clients are a mix of blue-chip multinational corporations and fast-growing entrepreneurial companies. Typical target groups are top managers and senior managers.

Impact Driven Services

Outcome-oriented and pragmatic advisory services based on cutting-edge academic research and transformed into practicable measures.

Executive Education

General management trainings with a proven track record of high teaching ratings awarded by participants. Class sizes range from 10 to 70 managers.

Industry Knoweldge

Deep industry knowledge in technologically intensive industries, healthcare, IT, financial services, and private equity and venture capital.

Customized, High-Level Executive Education

Designing and leading customized executive programs, ranging from one day to several weeks, for top managers and senior level executives.

Seminars

Informative and thought-provoking lectures to management audiences on strategy, international management, entrepreneurship and private equity, management and leadership in technologically intensive industries, and corporate governance.

In person or virtual programs

Whether in person or virtual, programs maintain an active engagement with participants regardless of their location.

Practitioner oriented implementation

Deep industry knowledge in technical industries, service industries, healthcare, IT, financial services, private equity, and venture capital through academic thought leadership.

Facilitations

Preparation and leadership of customized offsite-retreats addressing important strategic, personnel and crisis management decisions.

Strategy and Innovation

Guiding top management on choices about strategy, leadership, international expansion, and financing.

Services

Customized, High-Level Executive Education

Designing and leading customized executive programs, ranging from one day to several weeks, for top managers and senior level executives.

Practitioner oriented implementation

Deep industry knowledge in technical industries, service industries, healthcare, IT, financial services, private equity, and venture capital through academic thought leadership.

Seminars

Informative and thought-provoking lectures to management audiences on strategy, international management, entrepreneurship and private equity, management and leadership in technologically intensive industries, and corporate governance.

Facilitations

Preparation and leadership of customized offsite-retreats addressing important strategic, personnel and crisis management decisions.

In person or virtual programs

Whether in person or virtual, programs maintain an active engagement with participants regardless of their location.

Strategy and Innovation

Guiding top management on choices about strategy, leadership, international expansion, and financing.

Publications

Below is a list of publications by Prof. Kuemmerle that are readily accessible on the Web by clicking on the link provided. Most of these publications are targeted at managers and management educators.

Most other publications by Prof. Kuemmerle are scholarly articles or book-chapters in scholarly books. These are only accessible through the respective publisher or journal. Professor Kuemmerle’s full academic resume, which is available upon request, lists all publications, not just those listed below.

International Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Private Equity

General Articles, Videos, and Technical Notes
Case Studies, Videos, and Technical Notes Organized by Managerial Activity

Technology Managment

General Articles

Walter Kuemmerle

Walter Kuemmerle is a leading academic expert on international strategy and management, as well as entrepreneurship and private equity. He has also studied the management of fast-growing organizations and innovation management in large firms. He is the president of Kuemmerle Research Group, Ltd., an independent research, consulting and executive education firm.

He serves as a researcher, lecturer and consultant at companies, leading institutions of higher learning and non-governmental organizations around the world. He was a professor at Harvard Business School for over 10 years, with a joint appointment in the Entrepreneurial Management and Technology & Operations Management faculty groups. In one of his current research projects, Walter examines how large firms manage to stay entrepreneurial and how they successfully pursue new business opportunities. In another project he examines success factors in private equity.

Professor Kuemmerle holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Economics from the Koblenz School of Corporate Management in Germany where he graduated best in his class in 1992. In 1996 he earned a Doctorate in Business Administration with a specialization in strategy and business policy at the Harvard Business School. His thesis, “Home Base and Foreign Direct Investment in R&D,” was awarded the George S. Dively Award for the best thesis research proposed in 1995 at the Harvard Business School. His thesis research was also one of four finalists for the Richard Farmer Dissertation Award of the Academy of International Business. Kuemmerle also holds a degree in Commerce from Ecole Superieure de Commerce in Lyon/France and has studied both at Kobe University and Keio University in Japan.

Professor Kuemmerle’s award winning research has appeared in leading academic and managerial journals (such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Research Policy, Journal of Business Venturing, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review), a book on entrepreneurial finance and several book chapters. His work experience prior to joining the Harvard Business School was in banking (Deutsche Bank AG, Goldman Sachs), consulting (McKinsey & Company), chemicals (Hoechst Group) and pharmaceuticals (Eisai Co. Ltd.).

Kuemmerle successfully taught in Harvard Business School’s MBA, doctoral and executive education programs. At Harvard he developed the first course on international entrepreneurship and taught it to over one thousand MBA students. He also used materials from the course in teaching over seven hundred executive education participants in Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program (AMP).

In addition to his academic and practitioner publications, he authored over 40 Harvard Business School case studies on companies located in over 25 countries. Kuemmerle serves on the board of several privately held companies. He is a long-time member of the leading academic organizations in his field (Academy of International Business, Academy of Management, American Economic Association, Strategic Management Society).

Do you have strategic advisory or executive education needs?

Please contact us with any questions. If you are an alumnus of a program taught or led by Walter please specify the year and program. Thank you.