Anlässlich seines 50. Jubiläums lädt der Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften der WWU zu vier Kino-Abenden ins Schlosstheater. Auf dem Programm stehen Filmklassiker über Finance, Marketing, Data Analytics und Social Media und im Anschluss Gespräche mit spannenden Gästen.
Documentary filmmaker Paul Rieth has created an eight-minutes look back at last year's 20th anniversary event of the world's primary scholarly conference on the business and economics of filmed entertainment. In 2018, the Mallen conference series moved to Europe for the first time after having been hosted at UCLA, Yale, and New York University, among others, with MCM professor Thorsten Hennig-Thurau co-chairing the conference with Berlin-based producer/scholar/entrepreneur Jannis Funk, in cooperation with Abraham S.
At the invitation of Prof. Thorsten Hennig-Thurau and Prof. Sonja Gensler, the students of Münster University’s Marketing MBA program had the opportunity to attend a special event with Prof. Heribert Meffert on March 26th 2019. During his talk, which took place 50 years after he became Germany’s inaugural marketing professor, Prof.
The entertainment industry, and the movie business in particular, is experiencing turbulent times. New technologies, channels, and players challenge Hollywood’s existing business models, with large numbers of consumers shifting their watching behavior toward streaming services. As part of Professor Hennig-Thurau’s master course on “Entertainment Media Marketing,” two executives discussed these changes and the state of filmed entertainment from very different angles.
Dr. Ann-Kristin Kupfer and Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hennig-Thurau have been selected as recipients of the prestigious Sheth Foundation Best Paper Award, which honors the best article published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, one of marketing’s A journals. The MCM scholars win this year’s Sheth award for their article “Pre-Release Consumer Buzz”, which they have co-authored with WWU’s Visiting International Prof. Dr. Mark B. Houston (Texas Christian University, Texas) and Prof. Dr. Martin Spann from LMU Munich. For Prof.