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Chair of Sales Management and Business-to-Business Marketing –

Cutting-edge research and teaching on the sales function.

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Committed to excellence in teaching in all degree programs of WHU

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Fostering close cooperations with leading firms in a variety of industries

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Conference and knowledge platform for sales managers

About us

Driving excellence in the sales function.

The huge practical importance of sales and business-to-business cannot be disputed. But despite this, Germany’s universities largely offer marketing courses which focus on consumer goods marketing, brand management and consumer behavior. Our team, led by Professor Dr. Ove Jensen, is among the very few research teams that are fully dedicated to the sales function.

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Research & business engagement

What we do and how we can work together –
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Research

Our academic work is focused entirely on sales management.

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Business Engagement

Our Chair cooperates closely with leading firms in various industries.

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News

Chair of Sales Management and Business-to-Business Marketing –
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Professor Ove Jensen presents on the topic "Sales management: Remuneration, pipeline management and key figures".

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Students and executives meet for the 2018 fireplace evening on the Düsseldorf campus.

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Chair of Sales Management and B2B Marketing offers new course "Entrepreneurial Selling and Customer Development".

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Chair alumnus and store2be colleagues successfully complete new financing round.

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Books

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Awards and accolades

Awards and Accolades –
In recognition of excellence in research and teaching.

  • Best Paper in Track Award from American Marketing Association (2020 AMA Winter Academic Conference, Simone Kühne, Professor Ove Jensen & Marcel Hering)
  • Best Teacher Award from WHU Master of Science in Management Program (Spring Term 2016)
  • Best Teacher Award from WHU Master of Science in Management Program (Spring Term 2012)
  • Best Teacher Award from WHU Full-time MBA Program (Fall Term 2011)
  • Best Professor from WHU Lehrstuhl für Business to Business Marketing und Vertrieb (Fall Term 2008)
  • Best Paper in Track Award from American Marketing Association (2006 AMA Summer Educators' Conference, Professor Ove Jensen & Christian Hamburg)
  • Best Paper of the Year Award from The Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (Jagdish N. Sheth Award for the Best Article of 2000, Professor Ove Jensen)
Our team

Meet our team –
Working together to inspire and achieve.

Professor Dr. Ove Jensen

Chairholder

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M.Sc. Marcel Hering

Doctoral Assistant

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Associated Team Members

Thomas Wittwer

Doctoral Candidate

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Manager, EbelHofer Strategy &
Management Consultants GmbH

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End of doctoral studies: 2015
Title of dissertation: Aufsätze zur Planungsschnittstelle zwischen Vertrieb und Betrieb

Managing Partner – Elevat3 Capital and Founder – AMES Foundation

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End of doctoral studies: 2015
Titel of dissertation: Conceptual Foundations and Case Studies of Salesforce Compensation Plans

Manager M&A, Innovation & Ventures, Inhouse Consulting

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End of doctoral studies: 2015
Title of dissertation: Salespeople as Boundary Spanners - Exploring the psychology of the salesperson

Head of P&L Mass Market bei der
Telefónica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG

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End of doctoral studies: 2013
Title of dissertation: Die Adoption quantitativer Methoden zur Ressourcenoptimierung im Vertrieb: Theoretische Grundlagen und Fallstudien

Dr. Hannah Hauk

Alumna

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AVANCO GmbH

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End of doctoral studies: 2015
Title of dissertation: Finanzielle Nutzenrechnungen im technischen Vertrieb und Marketing: konzeptionelle Grundlagen und Fallstudien

Director Strategy, Unitymedia NRW GmbH

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End of doctoral studies: 2014
Title of dissertation: Unprofitable customers in business markets

Head of Solution Selling &
LCM – Competence Center Hilti Group

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End of doctoral studies: 2016
Titel of dissertation: Launching New Products with a Direct Sales Force: A Case Study and Grounded Theory

Dr. Simone Kühne

End of doctoral studies: 2020
Title of dissertation: "Die Arbeit professioneller Einkäufer: Aggression im Namen der Rationalität"

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Head of Commercial Business (DE),
Viessman Werke GmbH & Co. KG

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End of doctoral studies: 2013
Title of dissertation: "Vertrieb industrieller Dienstleistungen - Eine Untersuchung organisationaler Strukturen und Fähigkeiten"

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Jahr der Promotion: 2019
Titel der Dissertationsschrift: Pipeline-basierte Vertriebssteuerung - Fallstudien und Theorien

Consultant, McKinsey & Company, Inc.

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End of doctoral studies: 2015
Title of dissertation: FMCG Marketing and sales: Organizing trade marketing, category management, and shopper marketing

Principal, The Boston Consulting Group

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End of doctoral studies: 2010
Title of dissertation: Strategische und organisatorische Herausforderungen der internationalen Marktbearbeitung: Konzeptionelle und metaanalytische Synthesen ausgewählter Forschungsfelder

Executive Director, UBS Asset Management

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End of doctoral studies: 2018
Title of dissertation: „When to say ‘no’ to a customer – Profit interdependencies in losing business“

Head of the Communication Infrastructures and Services, OECD, Paris

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End of doctoral studies: 2019
Title of dissertation: "Dual Orientation Research: Collision or Collusion? The Interaction of a
Return-on-Marketing Orientation and a Relationship Marketing Orientation"

BSH Hausgeräte GmbH

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End of doctoral studies: 2014
Title of Dissertation: Angebotspreisfindung bei umkämpften Aufträgen - ein entscheidungstheoretisches Modell unter Berücksichtigung von Anbieterheterogenität und Folgeaufträgen

Theses

Writing a doctoral thesis at the Chair of Sales Management and Business-to-Business Marketing.

We regret that we are currently not enrolling new doctoral students.

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Professor Dr. Ove Jensen

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