Functional alignment on a company's value chain, specialisations in important primary and secondary areas, in particular unique management and sales training tailored to industrial sectors, as well as integration of sustainability aspects.

The faculty is the only German member of the "Global Academic Initiative" of East Carolina University. In the "Global Understanding" event, our students get to know fellow students from various universities around the world via video conference. The students can deepen their English skills in international "teams". There is also an annual exchange as part of a case study project with the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. The German-American group spends a week in Schwäbisch Hall, works in teams on case studies and presents them together.

Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Zwolle, Niederlande; University of Szeged, Szeged, Ungarn; LAB University of Applied Sciences, Lappeenranta, Finnland; Wroclaw University of Economics, Wroclaw, Polen; Camosun College, Victoria, British Columbia, Kanada; Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spanien; Université de Rennes I, Rennes, Frankreich; Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spanien; National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman, Kiew, Ukraine; National Taipei University, New Taipei City, Taiwan.

There are three computer pools with 21 computers each. Software can be used by students, professors and employees via a Citrix client. Students have access to Office 365, so they can use the Office package for their academic purposes. The campus offers EDUROAM as a WiFi solution. A team for technical inquiries is available for all members of Heilbronn University. The Schwäbisch Hall campus offers the following software for students: Microsoft Excel, SAP Predictive Analytics, R and IBM SPSS Statistics 25. MySQL databases are used as database systems.

Close research relationships exist with the universities Kyiev National Economic University named after Wadym-Hetman (focus: Cross-cultural communication and management) and Tallinn University of Technology (focus: Sustainable operations management and supply chain management); Business Science Institute Luxembourg; Université Jean Moulin Lyon as part of the Doctorate of Business Administration programme

The STARTKLAR start-up centre at Heilbronn University helps young people implement their ideas and inventions and become entrepreneurially active. Heilbronn University is also a partner of the MAFINEX founders' association Rhein-Neckar e.V. This initiates and supports innovative start-ups from the university.

Close integration with companies in the so-called region of world market leaders.