Alexander Himme

Alexander Himme is Associate Professor of Management Accounting at Kühne Logistics University. He received his PhD in Management Accounting and Marketing at the University of Kiel (Germany). He holds a Diploma in Business Administration from the University of Kiel. Before joining Kühne Logistics University in 2015, he worked as an Assistant Professor at Vlerick Business School (Belgium) and as a Post-Doc at the Universities of Cologne and Passau (Germany). At the University of Cologne he received his cumulative habilitation. In addition, Alexander Himme spent one year as a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA).

Himme's specialization is on the field of performance measurement, valuation of intangibles, marketing accounting, and cost management. His work is positioned at the accounting-marketing interface. In this context his research deals with the influence of intangibles on accounting metrics like the cost of capital. The aim of the research is to quantify the return of investments in intangible assets like brands, customer equity, or corporate reputation. For determining the return of investments in intangible assets his research also focuses on ways how to measure and to evaluate these assets. Determining the drivers of a successful cost management is another pillar of his research projects. His research has been published among others in Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Management Control, Journal of Business Economics, and Journal of Cost Management. He has also presented his work at major international conferences (e.g., Congress of the European Accounting Association, Marketing Science Conference, Marketing Strategy Meets Wall Street). His work was finalist for the Best Paper Award of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) in 2019 and received the Best Paper Award of the EIASM Interdisciplinary Workshop on Intangibles & Intellectual Capital in 2018. He further won best teaching awards at KLU on several occasions.

Himme has taught at the Universities of Kiel, Passau, Cologne as well as at the Corvinus University in Budapest, Vlerick Business School in Ghent/Leuven/St. Petersburg, and the State University of Management in Moscow. He has taught diverse financial, managerial, and marketing accounting classes in bachelor, master, and executive programs. Himme has visited several teaching seminars that deal with the case study method (e.g., case method teaching seminar by Harvard Business Publishing) and combines theory-based teaching with a passionate way of teaching case studies.

Teaching at KLU

• Academic Fundamentals (BScBBA)
• Accounting and Budgeting Across Borders (MBA)
• Deep Dive Business Challenge (BScBBA)
• Financial Performance Management and Management Control (MSc GL & SCM)
• Financial Performance Management and Management Control (MSc MGT)
• Fundamentals of Accounting (BScBBA)
• International Financial Accounting (BScBBA)
• Managerial & Financial Accounting (BSc MGT)

Academic Positions

• since 2018 Associate Professor for Management Accounting at Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany
• 2015-2018 Assistant Professor for Management Accounting at Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany
• 2014-2015 Assistant Professor, Vlerick Business School, Belgium
• 2011-2014 Post-Doc ("Akademischer Rat"), University of Cologne (Chair for Marketing and Market Research, Professor Marc Fischer), Germany
• 2008-2011 Post-Doc ("Akademischer Rat"), University of Passau (Chair for Marketing and Services, Professor Marc Fischer), Germany
• 2003-2008 Research Assistant ("wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter"), Management Accounting, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (Chair for Management Accounting, Professor Birgit Friedl), Germany
• 2001-2003 Student Assistant, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (Chair for Econometrics, Professor Gerd Hansen), Germany

Education

• 2014 "Habilitation" at the Faculty of Management, Economics, and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne; Granting of the "Venia Legendi" for Business Administration; Title of the Habilitation: "Essays on the Management of Intangibles, Costs, and Innovation"
• 2012 Visiting Scholar at the Anderson School of Management, UCLA, California, (Invitation by Professor Dominique M. Hanssens)
• 2011 Visiting Scholar at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, California (Invitation by Professor Stefan J. Reichelstein)
• 2008 Ph.D., Marketing and Accounting („summa cum laude“); Title of Dissertation: “Critical Success Factors of Cost Management and Market Entry Decisions”; Advisers: Sönke Albers and Birgit Friedl; Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany
• 2001-2002 Academic year at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 1998-2003 Undergraduate and Graduate Studies in Business, Law, and Economics with Majors in Accounting, Management Accounting, and Econometrics at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (Diploma in Business Administration), Germany

Awards

• 2021 - Best Teaching Award at Kühne Logistics University
  
• 2020 - Best Teaching Award at Kühne Logistics University
  
• 2019 – Nomination for the Best Paper Award of the German Academic Association for Business Research (Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft (VHB))
  
• 2018 - Best Conference Paper Award of the 14th EIASM Interdisciplinary Workshop on “Intangibles & Intellectual Capital”
  
• 2016/2018 - Best Teaching Award at Kühne Logistics University