“Although the world is full of business schools, I saw the need for a different kind of school. It came from my experience as a businessman. At our Group’s 25 production sites around the world we really need people with skills in global management and international economics.”
Klaus Murmann

“What’s missing is a combination of knowledge and experience. Managers have the experience and know the world in a way economists never will. But economists have a global perspective on the world economy that is particularly important for business today.”
Prof. Dennis J. Snower, President of Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Particularly the Heads of the Chairs of Innovation, New Media and Marketing; Organisation; Financial Management; International and Regional Economic Relations as well as Economics have worked intensively on designing the basic concept.

"Its combination of global management and scientific expertise in world economics will enable the Murmann School to have a tremendous effect on northern Germany, both as a scientific landscape as well as a business location. Together with the nationally and internationally recognised competence of the Christian-Albrechts University Kiel and Kiel Institute for the World Economy, this will put the state capital of Schleswig-Holstein on the right path to becoming a centre for the teaching and research of global economics."
Dietrich Austermann, Minister for Science, Economics and Transport of the Land of Schleswig-Holstein