Research and practice – Shared success through exchange
Our Business School attaches great importance to closely linking research and practice. On the one hand, we greatly value training excellent managers. On the other hand, our partner companies benefit from the findings of our research, which are gained through the active exchange with business representatives.
We maintain diverse partnerships with companies at various levels. These range from joint research projects to courses and career opportunities for our students. Our corporate partners companies advise us on strategic decisions and actively contribute to the redesign and further development of our degree programs. In this way, we ensure that our course content is relevant to practice and that our students can make contact with potential employers at an early stage.
We especially appreciate that students from the University of Mannheim bring along the right balance between high commitment and social responsibility. Many graduates of the University of Mannheim Business School are now working for our brands NIVEA, Eucerin or Hansaplast at the Beiersdorf headquarter in Hamburg – via direct employment, a trainee program or internship.
Every year, we come to the campus of the University of Mannheim in order to raise enthusiasm for Würth among talents through workshops and guest lectures. Over the course of the last years, we have already been able to win several graduates over for diverse roles within the entire world of Würth. As a graduate of the University of Mannheim myself, I am of course looking forward to these recruitment events – it always feels like a small homecoming.
We’ve had a lot of success with students from Mannheim. They are educationally absolutely up to the level where we want them to be, well prepared and professional. The people that study here are also down to earth and they are ready for the challenges that we present them. That mix is what convinces us to continue to hire from here.
