Mission, Visionen, Werte und Verantwortung

As a research-focused institution, we conduct innovative and internationally recognized research with the highest possible impact on scholarship, education, and society.

We continue to leverage research through:

• Attracting high-profile scholars to our faculty who offer first-class research and teaching
• Collaborating closely with Economics, Social Sciences and Business Informatics
• Our research activities focus on the main areas of business research

As a full-spectrum provider of business programs (bachelor’s, master’s, doctorate, MBA, EMBA, and Executive Education), we prepare our participants for remarkable careers.

We achieve this by:

• Maintaining and expanding an international network of leading academic and exchange partners to provide a worldwide research and teaching environment
• Collaborating closely with corporations and public institutions in order to add relevance and professional experience
• Keeping our challenging admission standards to select the best participants

We support the development of mature and self-reliant personalities who can contribute to business and society.

We achieve this by providing excellent learning environments for:

• Developing subject-specific knowledge and methodological skills
• Acquiring the ability to solve novel problems
• Fostering intercultural competence and critical thinking
• Practicing social responsibility and encountering unique intellectual and personal challenges

In all fields above, we strive for the highest possible standards and are committed to ambition, mutual respect, and fairness.

Holding a top position in Germany is an honor and an obligation at the same time. For the future, our vision is to be among the top business schools in Europe and to hold a respective position internationally. Our research shall have a growing impact on practice and on academic literature. We will bring forth leaders with a global outreach, who will use their potential to engage with businesses and society to make a valuable difference.

The following values guide us in achieving our mission and our vision:

• Academic excellence as well as rigor and relevance in research
• Thought leadership and innovation
• Critical thinking, diversity, and integrity
• Accountability, responsibility, and transparency

• Wir fördern kreatives und konstruktives Denken, um innovative Lösungen zu erreichen
• Unternehmerisches Denken und Handeln unserer Mitarbeiter sichert kontinuierliches Wachstum und eine starke Marktposition 

• Wir führen exzellente Weiterbildung in höchster Qualität durch
• Wir stärken die internationale Reputation der Universität Mannheim

• Wir ermöglichen einen offenen Austausch und  Aufbau von Wissen
• Wir engagieren uns innerhalb unserer Netzwerke

• Wir orientieren uns bei der Weiterentwicklung der Programme an den Marktanforderungen
• Wir schaffen für unsere Kunden Mehrwert

• Feste Verankerung in Strategie und im Mission Statement
• Einer der fünf von den Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern erarbeiteten Grundwerte der Organisation
• Studierendenauswahl auf Basis persönlicher Interviews; Persönlichkeit/Verantwortungsbewusstsein als ein Schlüsselkriterium für die endgültige Entscheidung
• “Honor Code” und “Code of Conduct” bilden die Grundlage des Studiums; Zuwiderhandlungen können zum Ausschluss führen
• „Green MBS“: Von Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern getragene Initiative zur nachhaltigen Gestaltung von Prozessen am Arbeitsplatz (z.B. deutliche Reduktion des Papierausstoßes/des Umfangs von gedruckten Materialien)

• Entsprechende Professuren/Lehrstühle an der BWL-Fakultät und der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Mannheim
• Integration der Themenkomplexe Ethik und CSR in das Forschungsprogramm vieler Lehrstühle
• Business Ethics und CSR sind von Beginn an Pflichtkurse in allen MBA-Programmen
• Integration von Fragestellungen aus diesen Bereichen in nahezu allen Lehrveranstaltungen (z.B. Marketing, Logistik, VWL)
• Service-Learning ist als Lehrmethode in das Curriculum integriert

• In MBA-Programmen ist ein soziales Projekt fester Bestandteil des Curriculums
• Jährlich werden rund 15 soziale Projekte von Studierendengruppen der Mannheim Business School – in der Regel in Kooperation mit Organisationen in der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar - realisiert
• Projekte, die vor allem die Akquisition von Spenden zum Ziel hatten, sammelten in einzelnen Fällen bereits über 100.000 € für karitative Zwecke
• Mit sozialen Projekten sollen Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer sich für Gesellschaft engagieren, Verantwortung übernehmen sowie für soziale, gesellschaftliche und ökologische Fragestellungen sensibilisiert werden.
• Internationale Studierende erhalten durch soziale Projekte noch tiefere Einblicke in die Kultur und Gesellschaft Deutschlands

• Platz 24 weltweit, Platz 9 in Europa und Platz eins in Deutschland im Better World Ranking 2017 des kanadischen Nachhaltigkeitsmagazins Corporate Knights
• Nominierung als eines von fünf Unternehmen für den Mittelstandspreis für soziale Verantwortung in Baden-Württemberg 2015 (LEA; getragen von Caritas, dem Ministerium für Finanzen und Wirtschaft sowie der Diakonie Baden-Württemberg)

• The participant has general management knowledge.
• The participant is a smart decision maker. He/she solves complex business problems using his/her cross-functional business knowledge, strategic view and innovative spirit.
• The participant has cross-cultural competencies and acts confidently in international business settings.
• The participant has effective leadership skills and works successfully in a team.

• Core management knowledge and global understanding

Students are able to demonstrate and apply discipline-specific knowledge to identify and solve practical problems in the respective areas. Students have a global understanding of general management and business.

• Application of knowledge and concepts

Students are able to apply and adapt knowledge to solve an unfamiliar problem in a specialized field in business. They are able to apply concepts, theories and methods as well as their own practical experiences.

• Cross-cultural and international competence

Students are aware of cultural differences and diversity and understand the implications for corporate reality.

• Ethical, social and sustainable behavior

Students understand the role of ethical and social implications and follow them when making sustainable business decisions.

• Teamwork and leadership  

Students act up to the importance of teamwork and leadership in order to develop promising solutions to a complex problem.

• Application of interdisciplinary in-depth knowledge in the fields of business and economics

Students are able to demonstrate and apply basic and specific knowledge within concepts and principles of particular fields of business and economics.

• Teamwork and leadership

Students act up to the importance of teamwork and leadership in order to develop promising solutions to a complex problem.

• • Application of knowledge and concepts

Students are able to apply and adapt knowledge to solve an unfamiliar problem in a specialized field in business. They are able to apply concepts, theories and methods as well as their own practical experiences to write a scientific group report over a period of one year. 

• • Specific knowledge in German law

Students are able to demonstrate and apply basic and in-depth knowledge within concepts and principles of particular fields in German law.

• • Specific knowledge in accounting & taxation

Students are able to demonstrate and apply discipline-specific knowledge to identify and solve practical problems in the respective areas.