Christopher Kummer (born 18 March 1975) is a German economist. He currently serves as a professor of finance at

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Life

Kummer was born on 18 March 1975 in

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. After graduating from Benedictine School in

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, Switzerland in 1995 he completed his graduate studies in

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and

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in 1999 at the

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with a dissertation supervised by Georg von Krogh. He received his PhD from

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in 2005 with a dissertation on

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. From 2004 to 2014 he was a professor at Webster University Vienna where he founded the Institute for Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances (IMAA) and began a professional partnership with Michael E. Porter. As an advisor he led the HR Transaction Services unit from 2007 to 2009 at

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, Switzerland.Christopher Kummer
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Since 2012 he is a professor of finance at Hult International Business School.

Selected publications

* ''Mult-headquartered firms. A strategic analysis.'' 1999. * ''International Mergers & Acquisitions Activity.'', 2005.

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Life

Selected publications

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