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Short Bio
Felix Kuhn is an engineer by heart. He is a Senior Consultant at Roland Berger and PhD Candidate. At TUM, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Stanford University, he improves predictions on early-stage venture performance and deep-tech ventures. He graduated from Tsinghua University and RWTH Aachen University with master's degrees in Automotive Engineering as well as Engineering & Business Administration. Felix has a proven track record of building products and developing management strategies while working with companies such as Baidu, Canoo, and Roland Berger in China, the U.S., and Germany. Felix is 30 years old and from Hamburg, Germany. (LinkedIn)
Educational Background:
- B.Sc. Business Administration and Engineering (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
- M.Sc. Business Administration and Engineering (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
- M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering (Tsinghua University, China)
- Visiting Researcher (Stanford University, United States)
- Visiting Researcher (MIT Sloan School of Management, United States)
Work Experience:
- Senior Consultant at Roland Berger
- Various internships and roles in startups and corporates in Germany, the U.S. and China
Publications:
- Murray, Kuhn, Welpe, Treffers (2025), The secret sauce of early-stage ventures: The impact of human capital on venture performance. A Y-Combinator case study, Working paper
- Kuhn (2025), From Stability to Scalability: How Emotional Stability of the Founding Team Predicts Venture Growth, European Academy of Management (EURAM)
- Kuhn & Treffers (2025), Beyond the Individual Entrepreneur: How Emotional Stability of the New Venture Team Predicts Early-Stage Venture Performance, Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC)
- Kuhn & Auernhammer (2025), Veering Off Course – Hidden Influences that Mislead Entrepreneurs in Early-Stage Business Model Experimentation, Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC)
- Kuhn & Auernhammer (2025), Testing Freeze to Pivot Breeze: How Contextual Influences Shape the Entrepreneurial Assumption-Testing Process, Nominated for Best Paper Award, Published in AOM Proceedings, Academy of Management (AOM), https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMPROC.2025.176bp
Supervisions:
Research interest: Predicting Venture Success
External thesis supervisions are generally feasible - topic should strongly focus on venture capital or The Gottman Initiative. For other proposals (other topics, master thesis) please get in touch with one of my colleagues. Applications written with ChatGPT will not be considered - please write briefly and precisely, as you will do in your thesis.
Hobbies:
Running, Mountaineering, Sailing
Email: felix(dot)kuhn(at)tum(dot)de