Dr. Sonja Gensler ist zusammen mit Alec Minnema und Tammo Bijmolt (Universität Groningen)  für den Wissenschaftspreis 2017 der niederländischen Marktforschungsvereinigung MOA (Zentrum für Informationen basierte Entscheidungsfindung & Marketing Research) nominiert. Die Nominierung bezieht sich auf die Forschungsprojekte rund um das Thema wie Online-Händler die Retourenquote reduzieren können.

Link: http://www.moawards.nl/wetenschapsprijs

Muenster’s marketing academics enjoyed a fully packed week of hard work and hard fun with “multivariate legend” Professor Dr. Joe F. Hair, who not only taught students on the intricacies of both structural equation modeling, but also gave interesting insights by reflecting on his long and successful academic career. Although Professor Hair could not fully hide his enthusiasm for partial least squares, he covered also the covariance-based approach of structural equation modeling in his course.

In recognition of his significant and enduring contributions to the European Marketing Academy (EMAC) and his achievements of high levels of scholarship and as a leader in the field of marketing, Manfred Krafft has been appointed as EMAC fellow. Together with him, Ajay Kohli (Atlanta/USA, previous editor of Journal of Marketing) and Peter Verhoef (Groningen, VP Membership of EMAC) have been appointed as new fellows of EMAC. EMAC represents more than 1,000 European scholars in Marketing. The board of fellows consists of 17 recognized scholars, who stay fellows until their retirement.

The prestigious American Marketing Association holds the annual Summer AMA conference 2017 in San Francisco, California. For this distinguished conference, Dr. An-Kristin Kupfer serves as chair for the “Digital Marketing, Social Media, and Entertainment Marketing” track, together with Professor Dr. Natasha Foutz from the University of Virginia.

Professor Thorsten Wiesel und Dr. Sonja Gensler werden im Februar und März 2017 einen Forschungsaufenthalt an der IESE Business School in Barcelona – einer der Top-Business Schools der Welt – verbringen.

Auf dem 33. Österreichischen Marketingforum, das am 14. Oktober in Linz stattfand, trat Professor Manfred Krafft als Key Note Speaker auf. Sein Vortrag zu „Customer Intelligence Agency – Quelle dauerhafter Wettbewerbsvorteile?" war zugleich Impulsgeber der gesamten Veranstaltung, die unter dem Motto „Konkurrenzkampf ist Intelligenzkampf" stand.