Selected MCM highlights can be found here.
This summer semester, the Chair of Marketing Management (IfM) was once again able to offer students majoring in Marketing the opportunity to participate in a project seminar in cooperation with a renowned company.
B2B solution selling is often seen as the supplier’s responsibility: understanding customer needs, designing the right offering, and delivering value. A recent Journal of Business Research paper by Victoria Kramer and Manfred Krafft in collaboration with Stefan Worm (BI Oslo, Norway), and Sundar G. Bharadwaj (University of Georgia, USA) shows that customers also play a decisive role in solution selling.
Prof. Dr. Manfred Krafft has been appointed as a Data Editor at the Journal of Marketing (JM) — one of the most influential and widely read academic journals in the marketing discipline, published by the American Marketing Association (AMA).
The latest edition of MCM News is here — and it comes with a question that has shaped marketing research and education for decades, yet feels more relevant than ever in the age of Big Data, real-time tracking, and generative AI: what has fundamentally changed over the past 25 years, and what has remained surprisingly stable? In our cover story, Prof. Manfred Krafft and Jun.-Prof.
The Marketing Center Münster has reason to celebrate: two researchers from the Chair of Marketing Management have recently been recognized for their outstanding doctoral work.
Dr. Christian Böing, a familiar face to many students at the Marketing Center Münster (MCM) through his lectures on Marketing Analytics and other subjects, was conferred with the title of Honorary Professor by the University of Münster and the Faculty of Business and Economics on December 3, 2025. With this prestigious appointment, the faculty recognizes Dr. Böing’s long-standing and exceptional commitment to the department, his outstanding achievements in market-oriented management, and his continuous contribution to teaching at the MCM.
The Rectorate of the University of Münster has awarded the Dissertation Award 2025 to 13 early-career researchers, honoring the best doctoral theses of the year. We are delighted to announce that Dr. Christina Okoutsidou, a former PhD student at the Chair of Marketing Management (IfM), received the award for the School of Business and Economics.
RETAIL NXT, held in Bad Vilbel near Frankfurt, has evolved from a bold endeavor in 2023 into the central get-together for retail technology experts in the heart of Europe. The event, which took place from September 30 to October 1, has become a must-attend conference for the industry's thought leaders, with over 1,000 participants.