Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Horst Albach, Professor Emeritus, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Heribert Meffert, Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the Marketing Center Münster at the University of Münster, Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart, Holder of the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank Chair of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at HHL, and Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Dr. h.c. Ralf Reichwald, Professor Emeritus of Excellence, Technische Universität München, and Academic Director of the Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation (CLIC) at HHL, are the founders and former academic directors (2012-2016) of the Center for Advanced Studies in Management (CASiM), an interdisciplinary research center of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management devoted to key research topics of business administration for the 21st century. Dr. Lukasz Swiatczak has been the Executive Director of the Center since 2013.