At the TUM Entrepreneurship Day, Isabell Welpe, Professor of TUM Chair for Strategy and Organization, was honored with the TUM Start-up Mentor of Excellence Award.
With this award, the TUM honors professors who are particularly committed and successful in mentoring #startup teams. Many scientists accompany the teams during the application and the one-year term of an EXIST start-up grant. Mentoring by scientists is a prerequisite for receiving one of the coveted federal grants for university spin-offs.
Professor Welpe´s research focuses on the digital transformation of companies, business model innovations, the impact of digital technologies on businesses and organizations, and the future of leadership and work/organizational design.
She studied Management at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA. She also completed an MSc at the London School of Economics.
She is a research fellow at University College London. Isabell Welpe teaches strategy and business model innovation, digital transformation, leadership, organizational design, and managing people and organizations. Her research has been reported in the media, e.g. Harvard Business Manager and MIT Sloan Management Review.
We congratulate Professor Welpe on this fantastic achievement!
