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On January 26, the Alumni & Career Services event year kicked off with the first inspiring Alumni Talk. The speaker: Michael Hanschitz, new/outplacement consultant, author, career coach and graduate of the Tourism Management study program. The topic: Is Corona killing our dream jobs? In the talk, the expert dealt together with the participants with job […]Read more on Job change in the crisis – Why we may have big career dreams despite Corona

Title of Master’s Thesis: “The Future is Circular” – (Dynamic) Capabilities for Sustainability-oriented Innovation in the Circular Economy Master: Organizational and Human Resources Development, graduated 2021 […]Read more on IBES Alumni Story: Julia Prattinger

Students of the Bachelor’s program in Digital Business at FHWien der WKW have developed a virtual digital consultant that supports small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in their digital transformation. The prototype was developed as part of the project “SME method case”. Its goal is to provide a holistic and industry-independent solution for SMEs to enter […]Read more on Virtual Digital Consultant for Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMEs)

In the Social Skills 1 lecture, students from the Bachelor’s Program in Corporate Communication create awareness of selected Sustainable Development Goals using an unusual and innovative presentation format. […]Read more on Sustainable Development Goals and Social Skills perfectly combined

"You have to travel to learn." is an old saying by Mark Twain that can be applied to this year's practice project: A cooperation with the tour operator TUI Austria enriched the (method) suitcase of the Master students with numerous employer branding insights. […]Read more on A practical project, a tour operator and a suitcase full of insights

Exciting and up to date: On November 24, 2021 the students of the Bachelor's program in Finance, Accounting and Taxation learned all news in the field of tax industry, on the subject of input tax deduction from experts at first hand. […]Read more on Safe steering through the tax jungle! Current issues of input tax deduction in sales tax law

Prof. Dr. Markus Scholz, will give a lecture in the course of the event series “Olympia und Propaganda” on January 17, 2022 at 19:30. His lecture is entitled “Olympic Games from the perspective of business ethics”. The upcoming 2022 Winter Olympics will be held in China. The aim of this online event series is to […]Read more on Markus Scholz in POLITICO and as speaker on the topic “Olympic Games & Business Ethics”

How marketing communication can be perfectly combined with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in lectures is demonstrated by the case study on the project "Children's Rights School", which was created in cooperation with UNICEF. […]Read more on Communication concepts for the UNICEF project “Children’s Rights School”

In a guest commentary in the daily newspaper Der Standard Markus Scholz, Head of our Institute for Business Ethics & Sustainable Strategy (IBES), and Thomas Beschorner from the University of St.Gallen write about German and Austrian companies that act as”corporate citizens” in favor of vaccination. You can read the article here. […]Read more on When Companies are Political

Digital transformation is one among the greatest challenges for companies in all sectors. This also affects the many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that shape Vienna as a business location. They are forced to leave old paths and integrate digital innovations into their organizations. However, not all companies find these changes easy. The research project […]Read more on How can companies find the balance between efficiency and innovation?