Sascha Schmidt

• Director of the Center for Sports and Management at WHU
• Chairholder of the Chair for Sports and Management at WHU
• Academic Director of the Sports Business Academy by WHU (SPOAC)
• Affiliate Professor of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard University (LISH) in Boston, USA
• Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sports Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
• Member of the "Digital Initiative" at Harvard Business School in Boston, USA
• Research Associate at em lyon business school Asia

Sascha L. Schmidt is a professor and director of the Center for Sports and Management (CSM) at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management. At the same time, he is the academic director of "SPOAC - Sports Business Academy by WHU" and affiliate professor at the Laboratory for Innovation Science (LISH) at Harvard University in Boston/USA. The "Future of Sport" is one of Sascha's key research areas.

He studied economic sciences at the Universities of Essen and Zurich, where he also graduated with a doctorate. At the invitation of Harvard Business School faculty he worked in Boston as a visiting scholar, after which he joined strategy consulting. After several years at McKinsey, Sascha was appointed director of the ICS research program at the University of St. Gallen, and qualified as a professor at the EBS University (habilitation). He then entered into the world of entrepreneurship, building up the activities of recruitment agency a-connect within Germany. In 2011, he returned to academia and founded the Institute for Sports, Business & Society at EBS University. Sascha joined WHU in 2014. In 2019, he was a lecturer at the first MIT Sports Entrepreneurship Bootcamp.

Education

• 2003 - 2006 EBS University, Oestrich-Winkel Professor thesis (Habilitation) in business administration, reviewer: Prof. Dr. Jean-Paul Thommen (EBS), Prof. Dr. Hartmut Kreikebaum (EBS), Prof. Dr. Martin Welge (University of Dortmund)
• 1996 - 1999 University of Zurich Doctoral studies in Business Administration (Dr. oec. publ.) summa cum laude; (reviewer: Prof. Dr. Edwin Rühli, Prof. Dr. Margit Osterloh)
• 1993 - 1995 University of Zurich Graduate studies in Business Administration and Economics (Lic. oec. publ.) summa cum laude
• 1991 - 1993 University of Essen Undergraduate Studies of Economics

Academic Positions

• Since Jul. 2018 Harvard University, Boston Affiliate Professor, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH)
• Since Aug. 2014 WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Dusseldorf Director, Center for Sports and Management
• Since Jan. 2014 WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Dusseldorf Professor and Chairholder, Chair for Sports and Management
• Jan. 2014 - Dec. 2014 EBS University, Oestrich-Winkel Director, Center for Sports Marketing
• Apr. 2011 - Dec. 2013 EBS University, Oestrich-Winkel Director, Institute for Sports, Business & Society
• Since July 2012 EBS University, Oestrich-Winkel Senior Professor
• Jan. 2011 - Jun. 2012 EBS University, Oestrich-Winkel Honorary Professor
• Jul. 2006 - Dec. 2010 EBS University, Oestrich-Winkel Senior Lecturer
• Oct. 2003 - Feb. 2011 EBS University, Oestrich-Winkel Lecturer for Strategy Consulting
• Since 2007 National Center for Econometric Research, Brisbane Research Fellow
• Apr. 2003 - Mar. 2005 University of St. Gallen Co-leader of ICS-Research Program; Lecturer within Executive Education Program
• 2002/03 University of Oldenburg Lecturer for Strategic Management / Consulting Research
• Jan. 1999 - Jul. 1999 Harvard Business School, Boston Visiting Scholar
• 1995 Harvard Business School, Boston Research Associate
• 1998 University of Zurich Lecturer for business administration
• 1996 - 1999 University of Zurich Research and teaching assistant
• Since 2019 em lyon business school Asia Research Associate
• Since 2019 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lecturer at the MIT Sports Entrepreneurship Bootcamp

Awards

• 2018 Best Teacher Award by SPOAC Sports Business Academy by WHU
• 2005 European Business School Excellence Award for Research
• 2005 Thomson South‐Western Award for Outstanding Research Based Paper on Management Consulting, Management Consulting Division, Academy of Management
• 2005 Nomination for Carolyn Dexter Award for the best international paper, Academy of Management
• 2004 Best Paper Award, 2nd International Conference on Management Consulting, Academy of Management
• 2002 Intern. Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management, Best Paper Award in the field of Strategic Management
• 1999 Swiss National Research Foundation, fulltime scholarship for Harvard Business School