Mike Schulze

Prof. Dr. Mike Schulze is Vice President for Research and Professor of Controlling, Accounting and Financial Management at CBS International Business School in Mainz, Germany. He is also a senior research fellow and lecturer at the EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht and a lecturer in the area of executive education at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. Recently he also took over the function as an Honorary Professor-in-Residence for the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) in Europe. His current research and consulting activities focus on trends and developments in the CFO area, the digitalization of the controlling function and corporate sustainability performance management. Prof. Schulze served as an officer in the German Federal Armed Forces and worked within the Finance function at Ford Motor Company in Cologne as well as a seminar manager at Horváth Academy, the formerly training division of Horváth & Partners Management Consultants.

Teaching assignments at CBS

• Managerial Accounting
• Financial Analysis and Valuation
• Financial Markets and Institutions
• Value-Based Management
• Strategic Analysis and Management
• Applied Financial Management
• Cost Accounting
• Empirical Research Methods
• Planspiel
• Business Simulation Game
• Business Project

Areas of research and consulting

• Trends and developments in CFO units
• Digitization within the area of Management Accounting
• Integrated Reporting
• Sustainability Accounting/Green Controlling
• Energy Management/ Energy Controlling
• Strategic and Operational Planning
• Cost Management
• Management Reporting
• Competence Management in CFO units

Education

• 2011-2016
  Doctoral studies programme„Business Administration“ at EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Oestrich-Winkel, Germany (Degree: Dr. rer. pol., equiv. PhD in Management)

• 2006-2008
  Master study programme„Business Consulting“ at University of Applied Sciences Wismar, Germany (Degree: M.BC.)

• 1999-2003
  Diploma study programme„Wirtschafts- und Organisationswissenschaften“ at University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany (Degree: Dipl.-Kfm. univ., equiv. M.Sc. in Business Administration)

Teaching Experience and Academic positions

• since 08/2017
  Professor of Controlling, Accounting and Financial Management at CBS International Business School, Campus Mainz, Germany

• 2014-2017
  Head of Research Area, subsequent Research Director Controlling & Innovation at Strascheg Institute for Innovation, Transformation and Entrepreneurship (SITE), EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Oestrich-Winkel, Germany

• 2014
  Visiting Researcher at Division of Energy Systems, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden

• 2011-2013
  Research Assistant and Doctoral Student at Strascheg Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SIIE), EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Oestrich-Winkel, Germany