Graduated from the Technical University of Vienna in industrial engineering and joined the institute of Business Administration as a lecturer for cost accounting. During this period, he qualified as a business consultant and started with a consulting company and specialised in interim management. Over the following years he held senior management positions in various industries and set up his own consultancy business focusing on business development. In order to keep up with actual developments and research results, Harald started as a lecturer in Business Consultancy and thereafter at IBS focusing on entrepreneurship and project management. Harald is married with 3 now already adult children, he likes hiking and sailing and has not yet managed to run a yacht aground.