NEWS & INSIGHTS

Vom Händler zum Corporate Influencer – Wie Jürgen Schmitt seine Karriere in der Finanzwelt neu erfunden hat

03/12/2025

Vom Aktien- und Derivatehändler zum Corporate Influencer einer Großbank: Im Gespräch mit HAGER Executive Consulting erzählt Jürgen Schmitt, besser bekannt als #derbankbart wie er nach 25 Jahren im Handel seine Rolle verlor – und daraus eine neue Karriere aufbaute.

Arms boom instead of car crisis? Berlin’s industrial fantasy shattered by reality

01/12/2025

Germany’s industry is caught in a downward spiral: car manufacturers in crisis, crumbling supply chains, thousands of jobs hanging in the balance. But there is also this: full order books at arms manufacturers, because billions from new debts taken on by the federal government are ending up here. So can the special arms programme save the industry from further decline?

The Due Diligence Private Equity Still Gets Wrong: Human Capital

27/11/2025

Most due diligences can slice the numbers a thousand ways. Markets, models, margins – all dissected surgical precision. But the one factor that decides whether any of it turns into performance — the people expected to deliver — is still often checked last, or lightly, or not at all.

Here’s the quiet contradiction in private equity: Financial DD predicts potential. Human Capital DD predicts reality. And the gap between the two is where value is most often lost.

Using sustainability as a competitive factor

22/04/2022

Sustainability is on everyone’s lips. Where customers pay attention to sustainability, companies that demonstrate sustainability score points. Sustainability thus becomes a win-win factor. For this to succeed, however, a strategy and competent management are required.