Dr. Harald Puhr
Assistant Professor
+43 512 507 9563
Karl-Rahner-Platz 3
Appointments by arrangement
Biography
Harald Puhr is an Assistant Professor of International Management at the University of Innsbruck/Department of Strategic Management, Marketing and Tourism. He received his PhD in International Business and an MSc in International Management from Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna). As part of the Erasmus+ program, he was a visiting lecturer at University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Royal University of Phnom Penh (Cambodia).
Research interests
Harald’s research interests relate to global strategy and international finance. In particular, he is intrigued by firms’ approaches to manage risks in the global business environment and how they generate opportunities based on these uncertainties. Within this area, he tries to connect a financial perspective on external markets with a strategy view on internal markets.
In addition, Harald is fascinated by novel methodologies that explore new and innovative sources of data. Together with WU Vienna’s Jakob Müllner, he collaborates on the globaltrends project that uses data from Google Trends to measure the internationalization of firms, individuals, products, and social phenomena. As part of this project, he developed the globaltrends package for R.
Publications
- Fisch, J. H., & Puhr, H. (2021). Financial hedging and operational flexibility as instruments to manage exchange‐rate uncertainty in multinational corporations. Global Strategy Journal, 12(2), 308-333. https://doi.org/10.1002/gsj.1406
- Puhr, H., & Müllner, J. (2021). Let me Google that for you: Capturing globalization using Google Trends (SSRN Working Paper 3969013). Available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3969013.
- Puhr, H. (2021). globaltrends: Download and measure global trends through Google search volumes. R package. Available at https://github.com/ha-pu/globaltrends. See here for further details on the globaltrends project.