Welcome to the Accelerate Student Initiative

Entrepreneurship has been a cornerstone of the education program at HHL - Leipzig Graduate School for Management for many years. With over 120 Start-ups founded by HHL graduates, this business school is one of the premier breeding grounds for future entrepreneurs in Germany.

In it´s 2011 ranking of global Master of Management programs, the Financial Times named HHL the no.1 spot to go to for Entrepreneurship. In their 2009 European Business Schools ranking, it ranked HHL’s full-time MBA Program No. 1 in Germany and No. 34 in Europe.

HHL graduates have started over 120 businesses! They have been financed by Earlybird, Apax, Grazia Equity, Wellington, Holtzbrinck and many others. Earned recognitions include:

  • Spreadshirt - Deutscher Interpreis 2005
  • Suncoal Industries - Wirtschaftswoche "Gründer des Jahres" 2008
  • Gollmann Kommissioniersysteme - Deutscher Gründerpreis 2010
  • MisterSpex - Deutscher Unternehmer Preis 2010

 

Accelerate@HHL

The Accelerate@HHL student initiative was founded in 2000 and aims to foster entrepreneurial thinking at HHL. The initiative is fully managed by students and supported by the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank Chair of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship with the Chair holder Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart. Dr. Stephan Stubner from the Program for International Entrepreneurship has been supporting the club over the past years with his valuable insights and his great network.

Activities in the past years included the hosting of a yearly conference with start-ups and venture capital companies, guest lectures, company visits etc. Visits of several start-up companies, the Hasso Plattner Institute, the University Center of Excellence in IT Systems Engineering and other non-/ e-commerce start-ups are some of the endeavors accelerate has carried out. In addition, over the past years different guest speakers have shared their experiences in running their own businesses.

Please see What We Do for an overview of our current activities. For more information on the Accelerate@HHL student initiative, please contact us at accelerate(at)hhl.de.