[7][8] HHL Leipzig graduate school of management is authorized to award doctoral and postdoctoral degrees.

After the Fall of the Iron Curtain and the reunification of Germany, the school was re-founded under private management in 1992, again, through an initiative of the Leipzig Chamber of Commerce.

After successfully completing all requirements and acceptance of the doctoral thesis, the candidate is awarded the degree Dr. rer.oec.

(Effectiveness) Without prescribing specific instructions for action, the LLM offers orientation in order to remain capable of acting as an organization or manager in a fundamentally uncontrollable world and to develop an attitude according to which the manager sees her/himself as part of a larger whole and defines her/himself through a value contribution and not through status, knowledge or power.

[21] In 2022 an extended version was published in which systemic interactions between entrepreneurial activity and grand challenges are given greater prominence.