After completing his undergraduate studies at the Free University, Berlin Dr. Gebhardt was offered a doctoral fellowship at Yale University where he completed his M.A. and Ph.D.
He has taught at various internationally well known universities including, Yale, University of Chicago, Rutgers University and City University of New York and held Visiting Professorships in both the United States and Germany.
Public discourse - its tacit values, ideals, and biases - is one of Dr. Gebhardt’s central concerns, and the tradition of “enlightenend individualism” one of his major fields of research. He has published a number of books, in one of which he investigates strategies of “creativity” and its roots in, and relation to, value systems and behavioural patterns. Another one examines changes in psychological strategies among ‘postmodern’ managers (Ende der Autorität – Die Manager der Postmoderne. Gabler Verlag, out of print), and the subsequent social relations within corporations. He has been a frequent speaker at and for entrepreneurial workshops and start-up projects, and at business summits such as the Gründerwoche organized regularly by the Chair “Entrepreneurship” at the Free University of Berlin. He co-initiated and organized one of the largest EU-conferences: “A Working Culture” in 1999 (devoted to the interface of business and culture); he was curator of the Einstein-Anniversary-Conference 2005 in Tel Aviv (devoted to cultural contingencies – including ethical world views - in science; scientists as entrepreneurs of individualism against cultural authorities), and an advisor and consultant to various US-Foundations. In addition, he has worked extensively on the emergence, margins, and mechanisms of public discourse, public opinion, and the public will and, in this context, hosted innumerable talk-shows on public radio.
Dr. Gebhardt teaches business ethics in an international economy with emphasis on international case studies.
Touro College Berlin
Am Rupenhorn 5
14055 Berlin
Deutschland
Phone: +49 30 300686 – 0
E-mail: mba(at)touroberlin.de
