Social media has changed the way we interact and communicate. It provides us with great opportunities to meet with friends and colleagues all over the world. It delivers interesting information on a daily base and makes us continuously discover new things. It keeps us up to date and helps us to navigate through a rocky and often overwhelmingly complex world. By nurturing us with the necessary knowledge and giving us the needed bonds with our peers, social media has become a vital part of our daily life.
Socially (IR)Responsible Algorithms: How the internet can betray our privacy - Seminar Wrap-Up
Why are discounters focusing on organic products? – Interview with Professor Krafft by Radio RST

Around 80 percent of people in Germany regularly or occasionally buy organic products. More and more of them are also available from discounters. According to a recent study conducted by the Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, discounters are consumers’ second most important point of contact for purchasing organic products. Against this background, Radio RST is pursuing the goal of examining this trend in greater detail as part of the broadcast series "Bio vom Discounter".
Advice for retailers: How to better leverage data from and for valuable customer relationships

Professor Krafft, MCM scholar and head of the Chair of Marketing Management (IfM), is the lead author of the study “Insight is Power: Understanding the Terms of the Consumer-Firm Data Exchange”, co-authored by a multinational research team consisting of, among others, V. Kumar, Colleen Harmeling, Siddharth Singh, Ting Zhu, and Jialie Chen.
MCM says 'Auf WIEDERsehen' to Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Klaus Backhaus
Prof. Klaus Backhaus has shaped the MCM since 1986. After still being active for the MCM as a senior professor for the last 9 years, he says goodbye to his well-deserved retirement on March 31, 2021. We wish him all the best, health and much joy.
IfM Research Fellow Dr. Jonas Schmidt Wins the IMU Research for Practice Award

On March 18, 2021, the “Institut für Marktorientierte Unternehmensführung” (IMU) at the University of Mannheim held its first digital spring conference with the theme "Turning Data into Insights - Customer Engagement in the Digital Age".
Euregio Start-up Center REACH opened its offices on Geiststraße exactly 1 year ago.

Today, Thorsten Wiesel and his 40-strong team work in the former premises of the Bundesbank. The start-ups that test their ideas with the help of REACH are addressing questions related to, for example, urban gardening, crop science or transaction platform solutions.
Royal Westphalia - Interview with Professor Krafft in "Die Glocke"

In agricultural regions, product queens are crowned who give a face to a product or industry of their region. In an interview with "Die Glocke", Professor Krafft explains which marketing concepts are used to increase the value of the products represented.
"Streamers Changed the Game!" – Dr. Malte Probst from Sky as virtual guest at the MCM

“Subscription-based online streaming services have fundamentally changed the rules of the game in the entertainment industry,” stated Dr. Malte Probst, Senior Vice President Film and Entertainment Portfolio at Sky Deutschland, during his guest lecture as part of Professor Thorsten Hennig-Thurau's and Dr. Ann-Kristin Kupfer’s master's lecture "Entertainment Media Marketing". During his presentation entitled "Transforming an Old School Business - Can You?" on January 27, 2021, Dr.
Henkel KGaA und Marketing Alumni Münster e.V. verleihen alljährlichen Henkel Thesis Award

Wir freuen uns sehr, dass wir am 05.03.2021 drei hervorragende Masterarbeiten mit dem alljährlichen Henkel Thesis Award auszeichnen konnten. Aufgrund der aktuellen Situation fand die Verleihung in diesem Jahr digital statt.