German Graduate School of Management and Law

GGS is an innovative business school for management and law. We offer future managers and business leaders the opportunity to obtain the necessary qualifications for advanced positions in their companies while working full time. Our primary goal is to promote lasting business success and economic growth by developing responsible business leaders. Further, we research GGS in management and law and provide consulting to numerous organizations. The Dieter Schwarz Foundation guarantees the long-term stability of our organization.
We are an innovative business school with emphases on management and business law, located in Heilbronn in the midst of one of Germany's most successful economic regions.
With our core competency in degree programs and continuing education for working professionals, we aim to reach responsible-minded and high-performing individuals.
In a globalized, complex, and dynamic economy, we educate professionals, executives, entrepreneurs, and the next generation of leaders by building the professional qualifications and personal strength they need to perform responsibly and successfully.
We investigate the success factors in management and business law and generate new insights, especially into our core topics of innovation, entrepreneurship, and compliance.
We strengthen Heilbronn's region, providing substantial contributions to sustainable business success, especially in the Mittelstand (SMEs).
Stay curious, always look for new insights, discuss your work with others, and implement your results: Whoever keeps these practices will have lasting success. This holds especially true for research into the disciplines of management and law with their continually changing contexts. Following these principles, we research to learn what enables firms to achieve long-term market dominance. We focus in particular on the impact of innovation, entrepreneurship, and compliance.
Welcome to the Institute for Innovation at GGS Heilbronn. We are delighted that you share our enthusiasm for innovation. This platform offers an introduction to our activities.
Innovation is the motor of our economy and society. It gives rise to progress and prosperity and generates a competitive advantage. But innovation does not occur of its own accord. It results from creativity and the systematic work of individuals or groups of people and their organizations. Our research addresses the behaviors of people who successfully bring about and manage innovation, the characteristics of organizations that provide optimal conditions for innovation, and the business landscape where these organizations operate. We share our research results with business leaders to support their innovation success and guide them as they manage, legally protect, exploit, and implement their innovations.
Lifelong learning on one campus is the vision of the Campus for Lifelong Learning, the Bildungscampus of the Dieter Schwarz Foundation, where GGS is located. Right in the heart of Heilbronn, the campus' 12,000 square meters contain three educational institutions, a cafeteria, an auditorium, and a library. Thanks to fully up-to-date facilities and the campus' light and airy design, you will find the perfect balance for your academic pursuits.
Here at the downtown Heilbronn campus, the German Graduate School of Management and Law (GGS), the Academy for Innovation in Education and Management (aim), and a branch of the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Mosbach (DHBW) have shared the campus for 30 September 2011. The GGS building on the south side of campus offers 2,500 square meters of highly modern lecture, seminar, and office space for approximately 250 students and 50 faculty and staff. The lounge area provides opportunities for rejuvenation and relaxation. Comfortable seats with views into the open galleries make for a creative work environment.
Not only in the GGS building do you find the best conditions for study, personal development, and relaxation between classes: the campus has a 400-seat auditorium, a cafeteria serving 380 meals per day, and an 800-square-meter library.
At GGS, we are committed to developing our students' intercultural sensibilities for leadership assignments globally. We have built a network of select foreign schools in Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia, to provide exchange opportunities for GGS students, including the chance to enroll in modules at partner schools. In return, GGS invites students from partner institutions to attend selected courses and programs in Heilbronn.
GGS International also means that GGS professors conduct teaching and research at partner schools and other universities. At the same time, guest faculty from overseas institutions come to GGS to teach and do research. Above and beyond these activities, the GGS faculty remains in rigorous dialogue with the international research community.
All degree programs at GGS offer rigorous, thorough, and practice-oriented education in management and law. In addition to the primary subjects of study, your personal development receives close, individualized attention.
If you're a university graduate (cooperative university, university of applied sciences, or university), if you're looking for a master's degree that fits with your full-time job, and if you know the value of excellent support given by highly qualified professionals, then we are the ideal partner for you. Our international faculty from leading business schools prepare you for new challenges and guide your development as a responsible business leader who sees well beyond regional boundaries.
We want to help our students maintain the right work-life balance despite the demands of career and master's studies. We are convinced that athletic activities reduce stress and increase well-being. In addition to your coursework, we encourage you to take advantage of our wide-ranging athletic activities.
GGS students receive a special rate at the Fitness Lifestyle Club. They can take part in annual sporting events like the Dragonboat Races, the Stimme Company Run, and the Trollinger Marathon.
Please take a look at our various opportunities, lace up your sports shoes, and get to know some new people. As they say: Inside every healthy body, there is a healthy mind!