Prof. Dr. Hans Olaf Warning
Professor of B.A. Business Administration & M.A. International Management
Profile
Prof. Dr. Hans Olaf Warning has been a Professor at IU since 2009, focusing on management accounting and control as well as finance. He came to academia from a broad international career: a former partner at the Boston Consulting Group in Cologne, he spent more than ten years in consulting and worked on around 40 projects worldwide, followed by five years as an entrepreneur in pharmaceutical products. He holds a PhD in molecular biochemistry and a diploma in biology and physics. His research centres on working capital optimisation and insolvency management, with a secondary interest in fake design in marketing. Alongside his professorship, he served for twelve years as second head of the IU examination board.
Research Areas
Strategy development and implementation
Cost accounting and management
Liquidity management and working capital optimisation
Leadership
Fake design in marketing
Publications and Presentations
Schulke, A., & Warning, H. O. (2024). Transfer price confusion? Proposing a comprehensive taxonomy for academia and practitioners (ISM Working Paper No. 14).
Warning, H. O., Schulke, A., & Grömling, M. (2023). So bewahren Sie Ihr Unternehmen vor dem Konkurs. WirtschaftsWoche Dossier.
Warning, H. O., Schulke, A., & Grömling, M. (2023). Cash is king! Securing liquidity in economic crisis. IU Discussion Papers, Business & Management, 3(1).