Contact:
Room Number: 2558
Email: alexandra.abler@tum.de
Short Bio
Work experience
- 2 years as BCG consultant with focus on Greentech, Machinery and Automation (GMA) + initiator for DE&I at the Industrial Goods practice area
- 4 years at GROB-Werke business development for battery cells, fuel cells and electrical motor development
Educational background
- MSc. in Economics and Innovation from Bocconi University, Milan
- MSc. in Innovation & Entrepreneurship from Copenhagen Business School
- BSc. in Global Business Management from University of Augsburg
Research Interests
- (Gender) diversity in the boardroom
- Executive risk-taking and innovation outcomes
- AI influence on executives and boards
- Visibility and self-promotion in academia
Currently working on
- Experiments with executives on feedback manipulation and subsequent behavioral adjustments to risk-taking
- Meta-analysis on board room diversity
- Linguistic analysis of scholar’s self-presentation
- … more topics around (gender) diversity in academia & business
Academic Record
Publications
Abler, A. J., Born, N., & Welpe, I. M. (2025, September 25). Geschlechterungleichheit: Wer von Sichtbarkeit profitiert. Forschung & Lehre. https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/karriere/wer-von-sichtbarkeit-profitiert-7302
Abler, A. J., Born, N., & Welpe, I. M. (2025, Oktober 7). Mehr Sichtbarkeit, weniger Unterstützung? Forschung & Lehre, 9/2025. Wissenschaftsmanagement Online. https://www.wissenschaftsmanagement-online.de/beitrag/mehr-sichtbarkeit-weniger-unterst-tzung-17886
HoPo. (2025, September 26). HoPo-Presseschau. redaktion24.info. https://www.redaktion24.info/hopoMail/2025-09-26_rxl.html
Abler, A., Ebert, A., Drewes, H., Hoxha, E., & Otto, J. M. (2023). Analyzing youth unemployment and brain drain in southern Italy. In The Strategic Management of Place at Work: Why, What, How and Where (pp. 137-158). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
Conference Presentations
Abler, A. J., Ahrens, F. K., Kappelhoff, S. L., Born, N. M., De Masi, S., Zhang, A. Y., Dwivedi, P., Welpe, I. M., Treffers, T., & Mors, M. L. (2025, July). Do’s and Don'ts for Visibility in the Scientific Career – Learning from Women Scholars [Professional Development Workshop]. Academy of Management Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Freisinger, E.; Abler, A.; Ahrens, F.K., & Unfried, M. (2025, July). Risk taking among female executives: effects of feedback on innovation decisions [Paper Development Workshop]. Academy of Management Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Abler, A.; Born. N. (2025, March). The price of visibility: good for society, but bad for female scientists. [Paper Presentation] Breaking BAIS Conference, Munich, Germany.
Abler, A.; Born. N. (2025, February). The price of visibility: good for society, but bad for female scientists. In Abstract Book of the 8th International Conference on Future of Women (FOW 2025) (p. 15). TIIKM Publishing. ISBN 978-624-5746-56-9
Further Accepted Conferences:
EURAM 2026: European Academy of Management (Link)
IPLS 2026 Crete: 9th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium, Theme: Leadership, Human Flourishing and Wellbeing’ (Link)
IPDMC 2026 Stockholm: Innovation and Product Development Management Conference (Link)
EIASM 2026 Valencia: Workshop on Top Management Teams and Business Strategy Research (Link)
ICEM 2025 Valencia: Entrepreneurship in times of transformation (Link)
Sounds interesting and you want to know more or collaborate? Send me an email: alexandra.abler@tum.de