Albrecht Enders is Professor of Strategy and Innovation at IMD. His major interest is the reaction of companies to radical changes in their environment.

Professor Enders has worked for clients such as ABB, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, Siemens, Douglas Holding, ICBC, Novartis, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Safran, Swisspost, Telenor and TUI. He also spent three years with The Boston Consulting Group in the company’s Cologne office where he worked on projects in the areas of financial services, energy and industrial goods. These projects focused on strategy development, reorganization and efficiency improvement.

His research has appeared in academic and practitioner-oriented outlets including Journal of Strategy and Management, European Management Journal, Management Information Systems Quarterly Executive and The Financial Times. He has also authored numerous case studies on companies such as Tesco.com, Nordea, XING, Brockhaus, SonyBMG and Spreadshirt, as well as written a strategy textbook, “Strategies for e-business” (FT Prentice Hall, 2008). These efforts have been recognized by international case awards granted by EFMD in 1999, ECCH in 2001 and 2002, and SIM in 2005 and 2008.

Albrecht Enders holds a PhD in strategic management from the Leipzig Graduate School of Management in Germany and a BA in economics from Dartmouth College in the USA.