Konrad Hilbers (born 1963) is a German

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, and Adjunct Professor "Practice of Information and Media management" at the

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

Biography

Born in Ibbenbüren, Hilbers received his MS in 1988 in economics at the

University of Münster The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over ...

, then his PhD in economics at the

University of St. Gallen A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

.Adjunct Prof. Dr. Konrad Hilbers
at the LMU. Accessed 10. 2014. From 1992, he started in Corporate Development at

Bertelsmann Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA () is a German private multinational conglomerate corporation based in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is one of the world's largest media conglomerates, and is also active in the service sector and ...

Gütersloh Gütersloh () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the area of Westphalia and the administrative region of Detmold. Gütersloh is the administrative centre for a district of the same name and has a population of 100,194 peo ...

. In 1993, he became Chief Executive Officer of the Sendezentrum Köln GmbH in Köln, and Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at the Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing in New York in 1994. He returned to Bertelsmann in 1996 working for AOL/Bertelsmann in Europe. In 2001, he was Chief Administration Officer at Bertelsmann's music division in New York, when he moved to

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to become Chief Executive Officer. From 2003 to 2007, he was Chief Executive Officer at the German teleshopping company Home Shopping Europe AG, and from 2007 to 2008 Chief Financial Officer at the

Primondo Primondo is the holding company for all mail order brands of Arcandor AG. The mail order line of Arcandor AG (previously KarstadtQuelle AG) has been called “Primondo” since 1 March 2007. Primondo itself is a holding company, which does not a ...

, in 2008-09 manager of the Quelle, nowadays

Arcandor Arcandor AG was a holding company located in Essen, Germany, that oversaw a number of companies operating in the businesses of mail order and internet shopping, department stores and tourism services. It was formed in 1999 by the merger of Kar ...

, and since 2010 Chairman of advisory board of the HSE24, a sister network of the Home Shopping Network, and independent. In 2003 Hilbers started as lecturer at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where since 2010 he is Adjunct professor for "Practice of Information and Media management."

Selected publications

* Österle, Hubert, Walter Brenner, and Konrad Hilbers. ''Unternehmensführung und Informationssystem: Der Ansatz des St. Galler Informationssystem-Managements.'' Walter Brenner, 1991. * Österle, Hubert, Walter Brenner, and Konrad Hilbers. ''Total information systems management: a European approach.'' John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1993. * Wilde, T., Hess, T., Hilbers, K., & Str, N. (2008).
Akzeptanzforschung bei nicht marktreifen Technologien: typische methodische Probleme und deren Auswirkungen
" In ''Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik'' (Vol. 2008).

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at the LMU {{DEFAULTSORT:Hilbers, Konrad 1963 births Living people Businesspeople from North Rhine-Westphalia German business theorists University of Münster alumni University of St. Gallen alumni Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich People from Ibbenbüren