On December 6, 2019, the IfM welcomed Frank Hanisch, Customer Business Director Mars Petcare and Nexan Chopra, EU Customer Business Director, from Mars. They were invited to give a guest lecture in the Master course Sales Management.
Prof. Anne T. Coughlan holds the Polk Brothers Chair in Retailing and has been Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston (USA) since 1985. Her research focuses on sales channels, sales management, compensation and pricing. She currently conducts research on topics such as multichannel management or measuring the compliance, monitoring and enforcement of MAP policies. From October 29 to November 6, Prof. Anne T. Coughlan was once again a guest at the Marketing Center Münster to work with Prof.
Yet again, Henkel visited the lecture “Consumer Behavior” and demonstrated how the theoretical fundamentals taught in the lecture are applied in practice. Laura Lorch and Peter Reichmann (Category Insight Management at Henkel Beauty Care) offered fascinating insights in their talk entitled “Shopper Meets Consumer – Henkel’s Way Into an Insight Driven Culture”.
Das Institut für Marketing (IfM) der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Manfred Krafft, sucht studentische Hilfskräfte (5h/Woche).
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Der Bundesverband Direktvertrieb Deutschland (BDD) hatte in 2019 erstmals Preise für hervorragende wissenschaftliche Arbeiten ausgelobt. In der vergangenen Woche fand nun die Verleihung dieser Wissenschaftsawards im Rahmen des diesjährigen Direktvertriebskongresses in Berlin statt. Das Institut für Marketing hatte dabei doppelten Grund zur Freude: Dr. Julian Allendorf erhielt den mit 2.000 Euro dotierten Wissenschaftsaward in der Kategorie „beste Doktorarbeit“.
Ende September besuchte das Team des Instituts für Marketing (IfM) um Prof. Krafft das Institut für Marktorientierte Unternehmensführung von Prof. Schwaiger an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München für ein gemeinsames Doktorandenkolloquium. In diesem Rahmen wurden fünf gänzlich unterschiedliche Projekte von Doktoranden beider Institute intensiv diskutiert und weiterentwickelt. Von Seiten des IfM machte Michael Gerke mit seinem Vortrag zum Thema "Predicting direct selling distributors' intent to leave" den Auftakt.
Vom 5. bis 7. August 2019 verbrachte das Team des IfM knapp drei Tage außerhalb des MCM im Landhaus Rothenberge, um dort intensiv die aktuellen Forschungsprojekte der Mitarbeiter zu diskutieren. So standen die Tage auf dem Rothenberg ganz im Zeichen der Präsentationen, die jeder Mitarbeiter zu einem aktuellen Projekt vorbereitet hatte. Dabei zeigte sich auch die große Bandbreite der Forschungsthemen am IfM.
From August 9 to 11, the 2019 AMA Summer Academic Conference took place in Chicago. The theme of this year’s conference was “Marketing on Fire: Burning Questions, Hot New Methods, and Practical Ideas Worth Spreading.” Manfred Krafft represented the Marketing Center Muenster, but also served in different functions. For example, he attended the Editorial Review Board meetings of Journal of Interactive Marketing and Journal of Retailing, two of the most prestigious journals in the field of marketing. And, he attended “master classes” on machine learning and interaction effects.
In this year’s project seminar offered by the IfM by Dr. Mirja Kroschke in collaboration with Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, 25 master students with a major in marketing had the opportunity to deal with data-driven marketing issues. Under the supervision of both IfM staff and the Porsche digital marketing communication department, the students worked in groups on topics such as “Customer Journey Optimization” and “Online Marketing KPI and Benchmarking Framework”.
On Tuesday, June 25, Dr. Julien Dolenc (Associate Director Strategy) and Juan Barrios (Senior Designer) held a guest lecture in Marketing Operations on “Living in the Age of You | Branding for Growth”. During the course of the presentation, the two representatives of the global brand consultancy Interbrand comprehensively outlined what it takes to make iconic moves in order to generate brand value. In doing so, students were encouraged to see in an illustrated way which impact the actual application of marketing operation tools in the real business world can have.