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Gutmann Martin HSLU W

Prof. Dr. Martin Gutmann Martin Gutmann

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Gutmann Martin HSLU W

Lucerne School of Business

Room Z207
Zentralstrasse 9
6002 Luzern


Institute of Communication and Marketing IKM

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Biography

Education

  • BA in Political Science and History, Colorado College, USA
  • MA in History, Syracuse University, USA
  • Ph.D. in History, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA

 

Continuing Education

  • Executive MBA, ie Business School, Spain
  • Higher Education Teaching Certificate, Harvard University, USA
  • Online Learning and Teaching, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • Certificate of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Cambridge University, UK
  • Future Professoriate Program, Syracuse University, USA

 

Professional Experience

  • since 2020 - Lecturer, HSLU
  • since 2016 - Consulting & Coaching
  • 2016-2020 - Managing Director & Lecturer, ETH Swiss School of Public Governance, ETH Zurich
  • 2016-2017 - Professor of Leadership and International Relations, American University Switzerland
  • 2014-2016 - EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Universität Freiburg, Germany
  • 2015 - MBA design consultant, African Leadership University, Mauritius
  • 2013 - Visiting Professor, Quest University, Canada

Previous: work in research, teaching, translating and IT.

External Teaching Mandates

  • ETH Zurich - MAS in Management, Technology and Economics
  • ETH Zurich - CAS in Public Governance and Administration
  • ETH Zurich - CAS in International Policy and Advocacy
  • ETH Zurich - MAS in Development and Cooperation
  • Uni Luzern - MAS in Effective Leadership (until 2022)
  • Uni Zürich - MAS in Applied History (until 2019)

 

Recent Review Mandates

  • Springer Nature International
  • Bloomsbury
  • Africa Review
  • European Review of History
  • Branco Weiss Fellowship
  • International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning
Teaching and research focus
  • Business History
  • International Affairs/Negotiations
  • Sustainable Development Goals
  • Cooperatives & cooperative management

Projects

Research projects

  • Swiss Cooperatives in History
  • Leveraging Cooperatives for the SDGs with Design Thinking - Zimbabwe and beyond
  • Before the SDGs. A Historical Companion to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Integrating public communication and sustainability (SDGs) into multi-university Innosuisse project on informal education spaces.
  • Leading in English

Publications and presentations

Publications and presentations - Book/catalogue

  • Gutmann, Martin (2023). The Unseen Leader. How History Can Help Us Rethink Leadership. Cham: Springer.
  • Gutmann, Martin & Gorman, Daniel (Hrsg.). (2022). Before the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Historical Companion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Gutmann, Martin (Hrsg.). (2020). Historians on Leadership and Strategy: Case Studies from Antiquity to Modernity. Heidelberg: Springer Nature International.
  • Gutmann, Martin (2018). Building a Nazi Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Gutmann, Martin (2017). Building a Nazi Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Publications and presentations - Article, review; peer reviewed

  • Gutmann, Martin (1.12.2023). Missing in Action. Business Impact, 2023(4/18), 38-39.
  • Gutmann, Martin (2024). What Did 2023 Teach Us About Leadership? An Answer in the Form of Three Questions. The European Business Review, 2024(January),
  • Gutmann, Martin; Jentges, Erik & MacKevett, Douglas (28.03.2023). Hybrid negotiation simulations: How mixing fact and fiction can lead to a more comprehensive learning experience. European Journal of Training and Development, 2023, 1. doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-11-2022-0132
  • Gutmann, Martin & MacKevett, Douglas (2023). High-Stakes Online Exams: Faculty Perceptions on Forced Digitization of Assessment During Corona at a Swiss Business School. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning, Vol. 18 No. 13,
  • Gorman, Daniel & Gutmann, Martin (9.5.2022). Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is another tragic setback in our efforts at building a sustainable future. Oxford University Press Blog, 1.
  • Niedworok, Anja; Gutmann, Martin & Bolli, Monique (2021). Tackling ill-structured problems with cooperatives. A proposal for further research and application. Zeitschrift für Gemeinwirtschaft und Gemeinwohl - Journal of Social Economy and Common Welfare, 2021(40/4), 536-548. doi: 10.5771/2701-4193-2021-4-536
  • Gutmann, Martin (2018). Consulting the Past: Integrating Historians into History-​Based Leadership Studies. Journal of Leadership Studies, 12(2), 35-39. doi: 10.1002/jls.21572
  • Amuehl, Michael; Gutmann, Martin & Scherer, Daniela (2018). Debate: The Swiss model-​a viable role model for a post-​Brexit settlement? Public Money and Management, 38(2), 83-86. doi: 10.1080/09540962.2017.1393930
  • Black, Peter & Gutmann, Martin (2017). Rassentheorie und Alltagspraxis: NS-​Führung und „Fremdvölkische“ in SS, Polizei und Wehrmacht im besetzten Osten. Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, 2017, 611-626.
  • Gutmann, Martin (2016). Engineering the European Volksgemeinschaft: Social Engineering, Pedagogy and Fascism in the case of the Swiss Alfred Zander. Journal of Contemporary History, 51(1), 40-60. doi: 10.1177/0022009415582280
  • O'Conner, Steven & Gutmann, Martin (2016). Under a Foreign Flag: Integrating Foreign Units and Personnel in the British and German Armed Forces, 1940-​1945. Journal of modern European history, 14(3), 321-341. doi: 10.17104/1611-8944-2016-3-321
  • Gutmann, Martin (2015). The Nature of Total War: Grasping the Global Environmental Dimensions of World War II. History Compass, 13(5), 251-261. doi: 10.1111/hic3.12236
  • Gutmann, Martin (2013). Debunking the Myth of the Volunteers. Contemporary European History (via ProQuest), 22(4), 585-607. doi: 10.1017/s0960777313000374
  • Gutmann, Martin (2008). Notable Literature on Germany's Red Army Faction within the Context of Die RAF und der linke Terrorismus. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 31(4), 371-375. doi: 10.1080/10576100801925646

Publications and presentations - Article, review; not peer reviewed

  • Gutmann, Martin (29.11.2023). How To Look Beyond Those Who Are Shouting The Loudest In Your Organisation. Minute Hack, 2023,
  • Gutmann, Martin (21.11.2023). The “action fallacy” tells us that the most effective leaders are unseen. Big Think, 1-1.
  • Gutmann, Martin (9.8.2020). Sorgenvoller Blick auf die US Wahlen. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 7-7.
  • Gutmann, Martin (6.6.2019). What we can learn from the D-​Day invasions in the Age of Brexit and Trump. SWI swissinfo, 1.
  • Gutmann, Martin (28.09.2018). Trump ist kein Faschist – und doch stellt er eine Gefahr dar. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 12-12.
  • Salehabadi, Djahane & Gutmann, Martin (2018). From detour to deliberate: Why building expertise is more important than transferable skills in gaining alternative-academic employment. Inside Higher Education, 2018, 1.

Publications and presentations - Chapter/legal commentary/lexicon article

  • Gorman, Daniel & Gutmann, Martin (2022). Introduction: The Long and the Short Road to the Sustainable Development Goals. In Martin Gutmann; Daniel Gorman (Hrsg.), Before the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Historical Companion (S. 1-13). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Adesina, Olutayo & Gutmann, Martin (2022). Historicizing Production, Innovation, and Infrastructure, from the Industrial Revolution to Contemporary African Strategies of Industrialization. In Martin Gutmann; Daniel Gorman (Hrsg.), Before the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Historical Companion (S. 265-294). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Fürst, Christine & Gutmann, Martin (2022). Caretaking, Conservation, and Exploitation in the Evolving Relationship between Humans and Life on Land. In Martin Gutmann; Daniel Gorman (Hrsg.), Before the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Historical Companion (S. 448-476). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Gutmann, Martin (2020). Roald Amundsen in the Age of Polar Exploration: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Quest to Conquer the Northwest Passage. In Martin Gutmann (Hrsg.), Historians on Leadership and Strategy: Case Studies from Antiquity to Modernity (S. 123-140). Heidelberg: Springer Nature International.
  • Gutmann, Martin (2020). Introduction: The Value of the Historical Perspective for Leadership Studies. In Martin Gutmann (Hrsg.), Historians on Leadership and Strategy: Case Studies from Antiquity to Modernity (S. 1-12). Heidelberg: Sringer Nature International.
  • Black, Peter & Gutmann, Martin (2016). Racial Theory and Realities of Conquest in the Occupied East: The Nazi Leadership and Non-​German Nationals in the SS and Police. In Boehler, Jochen; Gerwarth, Robert (Hrsg.), The Waffen-​SS: A European History (S. 16-41). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Gutmann, Martin (2013). Nutzen oder Schützen? Beides! Der SAC und die Umwelt: Die 150-​Jährige Suche nach einem Gleichgewicht zwischen Schützen und Nutzen. In Anker, Daniel (Hrsg.), Helvetia Club: 150-​Jahre Schweizer Alpen-​Club SAC (S. 182-191). Bern: SAC-Verlag Schweizer Alpen-Club.

Publications and presentations - Report/working paper

  • Adesina, Olutayo & Gutmann, Martin (2021). Historicizing Sustainable Development Goal 9 from the Global Industrial Revolution to African Strategies of Industrialization (Bericht). Oxford University Press,

Publications and presentations - Learning aids

  • Moist, Richard & Gutmann, Martin (2022). Floatshare sails into a storm. Lucern.
  • Gutmann, Martin; Kessler, Oliver; Huff, Chase; Auta, Mary & Madungwe, Tineyi (2022). Opening the Sperrgebiet. A Negotiation Simulation on Sustainable Development in the African-Swiss Context. Lucerne.
  • Gutmann, Martin (2019). Negotiation and Advocacy Skills. ETH Zurich.
  • Gutmann, Martin; Schoch, Maxime & Sulzer, Linda (2019). Power Play in the Swiss Alps. ETH Zurich.
  • Gutmann, Martin (2016). Public Governance and Administration. ETH Zurich.
  • Sulzer, Linda & Gutmann, Martin (2016). Grimselsimulation. ETH Zurich.

Publications and presentations - Other publication formats

  • Gutmann, Martin (21.11.2023). The Sam Altman/OpenAI rollercoaster: Lessons from leadership turmoil. Interview.
  • Gutmann, Martin (20.11.2023). The “action fallacy” tells us that the most effective leaders are unseen. In Blog Post https://bigthink.com/business/action-fallacy-most-effective-leaders-unseen/
  • .Kessler, Oliver & Gutmann, Martin (27.09.2022). Takeaways from a Swiss-African summer school at HSLU. In Blog Post https://hub.hslu.ch/ikm/2022/09/27/takeaways-from-a-swiss-african-summer-school-at-hslu/

Publications and presentations - Presentation (conference/report/lectures)

  • Gutmann, Martin (06.12.2023). The Unseen Leader. Invited talks series, Zurich.
  • Gutmann, Martin (02.12.2022). Commentator on Monocle 24. The Globalist, Zurich.
  • Gutmann, Martin (24.06.2022). Interview: Before the UN Sustainable Development Goals. A Historical Companion. Kommunikation und Marketing an der Hoschule Luzern, Luzern.
  • Gutmann, Martin (11.05.2022). Towards a new timeline. How to talk about history in an age of climate crisis. Balsillie School of International Affairs Lecture Series, Waterloo, Canada.
  • Gutmann, Martin (05.05.2022). Interview. The Stork, Madrid.
  • Gutmann, Martin (19.10.2021). The SDG's: Their place in history and their future in the age of Covid. The SDG's: Their place in history and their future in the age of Covid, Geneva.
  • Gutmann, Martin (09.12.2020). Interview. Phronesis - Practical Wisdom for Leaders, USA.

Achievements

Achievements - Commissions, memberships and external activities

  • Gutmann, Martin. Peer reviewer. (2023). International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning.
  • Gutmann, Martin. Peer Reviewer. (2022). Springer Nature International.
  • Gutmann, Martin. Peer Reviewer. (2022). Africa Review.
  • Gutmann, Martin. Peer Reviewer. (2019). Bloomsbury.
  • Gutmann, Martin. Peer Reviewer. (2019). Springer Nature.

Achievements - Awards and honours

  • Gutmann, Martin (16.09.2018). CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title für Book publication.
  • Gutmann, Martin (01.09.2014). European Union Marie Skłodowska-​Curie Inter-​European Fellowship für Research.
  • Gutmann, Martin (01.01.2012). ACLS New Faculty Fellow award für Research.
  • Gutmann, Martin (01.01.2009). Mellon Fellowship for Research in Original Sources für Research.

Achievements - Other achievements

  • Gutmann, Martin. The New Portrait Of Leadership: Martin Gutmann Of The Unseen Leader On Which Legacy Ideas About Leadership Need To Be Discarded, And Which New Approaches To Leadership Should Be Embraced. Interview. Authority Magazine.
  • Gutmann, Martin. Whose in charge here?. Interview. The European.
  • Gutmann, Martin. 5 Ways To Make A Positive Impact As A New CEO. Interview. Forbes.
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