Kühne School of Logistics and Management
Encyclopedia
Kuehne Logistics University – Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Logistik und Unternehmensführung (THE KLU) is a Hamburg based, private, state recognized university. It was founded by the Kühne Stiftung (Kuehne Foundation) which is based in Schindellegi, Switzerland, contracting body is the Kühne Logistics University GmbH. The non-profitmaking foundation supports education and further education as well as research and science in transport and logistics.
The KLU, consists of two departments: Logistics and Management & Economics, and covers the whole spectrum of university education and executive education, from the Bachelor’s degrees and two Master’s programs to the structured PhD program. The KLU plans to establish ten logistics professorships and eleven professorships in the area of Business Administration and Entrepreneurship by 2015. The KLU is located at Hamburg’s HafenCity area and its teaching language is English.
Kühne School offered a full-time and a part-time in-service M.B.A.
study program with a logistics management
specialization, and two master
’s programs, one in Logistics, Infrastructure and Mobility and the one other in International Industrial Engineering
.
The KLU, consists of two departments: Logistics and Management & Economics, and covers the whole spectrum of university education and executive education, from the Bachelor’s degrees and two Master’s programs to the structured PhD program. The KLU plans to establish ten logistics professorships and eleven professorships in the area of Business Administration and Entrepreneurship by 2015. The KLU is located at Hamburg’s HafenCity area and its teaching language is English.
History
The Kuehne Logistics University evolved in September 2010 from Kühne School of Logistics and Management, the graduate business school for logistics management at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH). The Kühne School was founded in 2003 as a public-private partnership by the Technical University of Hamburg and the Kühne Foundation as Hamburg School of Logistics, but was later renamed in honor of Klaus-Michael Kühne, a German entrepreneur who donated 3 million euro for the school's foundation, followed by an additional donation of 30 million euro four years later.Kühne School offered a full-time and a part-time in-service M.B.A.
Master of Business Administration
The Master of Business Administration is a :master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and companies sought out...
study program with a logistics management
Logistics Management
The term Logistics Management or supply chain management is that part of Supply Chain Management that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective, forward, and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption...
specialization, and two master
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
’s programs, one in Logistics, Infrastructure and Mobility and the one other in International Industrial Engineering
Industrial engineering
Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems. It is concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, materials, analysis...
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Further education programs
- Master of Science “Global Logistics” (2010) (2 years)
- Master of Science “Management” (2011) (2 years)
- PHD Program (2011)
- MBA Program (2012)
- Spring School
- Summer School
- Seminars (2 days)
- Day forum (1 day)
History
- 2003 founding of HSL Hamburg School of Logistics
- 2004 MBA-degree program – full-time
- 2005 Accreditation of full-time MBA Programs by ASIIN
- 2006 MBA-degree program – part-time
- 2006 First Summer School – part-time
- 2007 renaming and change of legal status to Kühne School of Logistics and Management at the TUHH
- 2007 Master-degree program International Engineering and Management – full-time
- 2008 Accreditation of the part time MBA-Programs by ASIIN
- 2008 Master-degree program logistics, Infrastructure and mobility – full-time
- 2010 founding and state recognition of the Kühne Logistics University - Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Logistik und Unternehmensführung (THE KLU)