Prof. Dr.-Ing. Inga-Lena Darkow, Assistant Professor, is Research Director of Innovation and Logistics at the Supply Management Institute SMI and is responsible for the DHL Innovation Center. Her research field focuses on logistics management and innovation management, especially in the logistics service industry. Inga-Lena Darkow manages the Bachelor, Diploma and Master programs at the SMI. She studied industrial engineering and management at the Technische UniversitAt Berlin as well as at the University of Manchester - Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Great Britain. After her studies, she continued with her doctoral thesis concerning logistics controlling at the Technische UniversitAt Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Baumgarten. Inga-Lena Darkow has been lecturer and consultant in the areas of strategic management, logistics and supply chain management for the past three years.

Prof. Corinne Faure, Ph.D. studied Business at ESSEC in France, graduating in 1988. She obtained her Ph.D. in marketing at the University of Florida in 1995. Her dissertation research on cross-functional teams was supported by the Marketing Science Institute in Boston. She served on the marketing faculty at Virginia Tech (USA) and HEC (France) before joining the European Business School (Germany) in 2001, where she became Chair for International Management in 2004. She lectures on marketing and international management in diverse MBA and executive programs. Her main research interests are in the field of marketing and innovation in an international context. She has published in a number of outlets including the International Journal of Research in Marketing, the Journal ofCreative Behavior, and Recherche et Applications en Marketing.

Prof. Dr. Ronald Gleich, a former partner of HorvAth & Partners Management Consultants and head of the consultancy's Stuttgart office and its competence center for managerial accounting and controlling, became a member of the faculty at the European Business School (ebs) as head of the Endowed Chair for Industrial Management (with special focus on management accounting and innovation management) in 2003. In 2004/2005, as a member of the ebs management board, he was responsible for the financial and commercial development and the programs of executive education. Currently, he is the managing director of the "ebs corporate solutions GmbH," which offers tailor-made programs in the field of executive education. Besides his permanent involvement at the Chair, Prof. Gleich is the founder and editor of the journal "Performance Excellence - Zeitschrift fA1/4r Controlling und Innovationsmanagement ZfCI" (publishing house: FAW-Verlag in Bamberg). Additionally, he has published numerous books as author and editor in the research areas of management accounting and innovation management.

Helmut Baumgarten, Professor fA1/4r Logistik und ForschungstAtigkeit im Bereich Angewandte Logistik an der Technischen UniversitAt Berlin. GeschAftsfA1/4hrender Direktor des Instituts fA1/4r Technologie und Management der TU Berlin. Viele Jahre Stellvertretender Vorsitzender der Bundesvereinigung Logistik (BVL). Mitinitiator mehrerer UnternehmensgrA1/4ndungen und Berater von fA1/4hrenden Unternehmen der internationalen Wirtschaft fA1/4r die Bereiche Logistik und Unternehmensplanung.