Saskia Opitz

Saskia Opitz is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Management Accounting and Control within the Management Group at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. She holds a PhD from the University of Cologne and previously served as a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods (2023–2025) and a Research Associate in Personnel Economics and HRM at the University of Cologne (2019–2025). Her research focuses on the intersection of management practices, managerial discretion, and machine learning applications in organizational decision-making.

Key academic contributions include a 2025 publication in Management Science exploring algorithmic approaches to incentive scheme design. Her work bridges empirical economics with modern computational methods to address challenges in organizational efficiency and employee motivation.

Educational background: PhD in Business Administration from the University of Cologne (2019–2025), M.Sc. (2017–2019) and B.Sc. (2014–2017) in Business Administration from the same institution. Professional roles include tenure-track junior professorship (Jun.-Prof.) and Max Planck research fellowship.