Helmuth Ludwig
Full-Time Faculty
Professor of Practice of Strategy and Entrepreneurship,
Cox Executive Director, Hart Institute for Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Management, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship
Phone |
214-768-1885 |
Office |
ECOX 2267 |
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Education
Doctorate, Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany
MBA, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur, Karlsruhe Institite of Technolgy
Biography
Dr. Helmuth Ludwig is a Professor of Practice for Strategy and Entrepreneurship at 91茄子’s Cox School of Business in Dallas, where he teaches MBA courses, e.g., on Technology and AI Strategy. He is also the Cox Executive Director of the Hart Institute for Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship @ 91茄子, an Executive Fellow of the Strategic Management Department at the IESE, Barcelona, Spain, and an Affiliated Professor and Research Lead at the Research Lab for the Management of Artificial Intelligence, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
He serves on the Boards of Directors of Hitachi Ltd, Tokyo (member audit committee) and Humanetics Group, Farmington Hill (Board chair). He is also a senior advisor to Bridgepoint LLC and Zscaler, Inc. He is a Certified Director and Board Leadership Fellow with the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).
From 1990 until 2019, he worked at Siemens, a leading technology company, in different functions and regions: global CIO (until 2019), CEO of Siemens Industry Sector North America (until 2014), and President of Siemens PLM Software (until 2010). Earlier in his career, Helmuth had several international assignments at Siemens in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
He has been a board member of several public and private organizations: Circor International (Chair), Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (Chair), Siemens Electrical, Inc (Chair), Siemens Industry Inc. (member), and Siemens Corporation (member).
Helmuth holds an engineering degree from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and a Doctorate from the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel. His latest publications (2023, MISQE) include "How Siemens Democratized Artificial Intelligence” and “How Boards of Directors Govern Artificial Intelligence” both coauthored with Professor Benjamin van Giffen. Together with Andy Brown, he published in Fall 2023 the book “Cybersecurity: Seven Steps for Boards of Directors”. In 2024 he published in “Der Aufsichtsrat”: Cybersicherheit: Leitfaden fu虉r den Aufsichtsrat in Sieben Schritten”.
Helmuth holds German and US passports and resides with his wife Almudena in Dallas, Texas, and Madrid, Spain.
Teaching
STRA 6202 Advanced Strategic Management
STRA 6222 International Corporate Strategy
STRA 6224 Entrepreneurial Strategy
STRA 6230 Technology Strategy
STRA 6231 AI Strategy
STRA 6232 Strategic Leadership in Exponential Times
STRA 6430 Strategy Consulting
MNGT 6210 Global Leadership Program
Research
International and technological transformation of companies
Democratization of Artificial Intelligence