> Henning Piezunka, PhD Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton SchoolResearch Interests:Competition, collaboration, crowdsourcing About Henning Henning Piezunka is an associate professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The focus of his research lies on competition and collaboration, crowdsourcing, and CEO succession. He studies these topics by examining entrepreneurial firms, family firms, and sports (e.g., F1, chess, soccer, basketball). The focus of his teaching lies in helping firms to compete and collaborate more effectively, to become more innovative and entrepreneurial, and to manage their successions better. Professor Piezunka obtained a PhD at Stanford University; a Master of Science at the London School of Economics, U.K.; and a Diplom-Kaufmann from the University of Mannheim, Germany. Before starting his academic career, he co-founded a web design company in 1998 and acted as its founder-CEO until selling it in January 2016. By 2016, Professor Piezunka’s company employed more than 30 people and served customers in more than 80 countries. Read full faculty bio on Wharton websiteExecutive Education Programs TaughtEntrepreneurship CertificateEntrepreneurship is about creating value through innovation, whether you are launching a venture, building something new inside an organization, or pursuing a new professional path. The Wharton Online Entrepreneurship Certificate offers a structured, research-backed journey through Inspiration, Identification, and Implementation, equipping you with practical frameworks and tools to evaluate opportunities, reduce risk, and move ideas into action through three fully online, self-paced courses. From Plan to Performance: Venture ImplementationExecution is where entrepreneurial ideas become reality. From Plan to Performance: Venture Implementation equips you with the tools to assemble teams, mobilize resources, and build the structures that turn plans into progress. Guided by Henning Piezunka, this fully online, self-paced course helps you translate opportunity into action through effective teams, partnerships, governance, and launch planning.
