Highlights
Selected MCM highlights can be found here.
Selected MCM highlights can be found here.
Last week, the Marketing Center had the privilege of welcoming Florian Mair, Head of Amazon's Europe-wide fashion and apparel business and General Manager at the world-leading etailer, for not just one, but two engaging events. Florian Mair’s visit provided students with unique insights into Amazon's strategies that so strongly impact consumers as well as businesses on a global scale, the world of digital business as a whole, and invaluable career advice.
From January 29 to 31, the CustMaS team hosted a highly engaging multiplier event at Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego (Kozminski University) in Warsaw, Poland.
Right before Christmas, University of Münster’s Marketing Center had the pleasure of hosting P.K. Kannan (University of Maryland), a leading marketing scholar and an expert in applying modeling, econometrics, machine learning, and AI methods to substantive issues in marketing. In addition to personal meetings with MCM’s faculty and PhD candidates, P.K.
At the end of a successful year, we would like to highlight one final milestone. This December, three MCM scholars participated in two major conferences that allowed us to share our research and engage in productive academic exchanges.
As the festive season approaches, advent calendars begin to appear on the aisles of retail stores, ranging from traditional calendars filled with chocolate or sweets to luxurious calendars containing premium cosmetics or perfumes. Prof. Dr. Manfred Krafft, Chair of Marketing Management (IfM), gave Radio WAF listeners a marketing perspective on advent calendars and discussed current trends shaping the development of these products.
In a dynamic assembly at Alba Graduate Business School in Athens, over 20 students and 10 faculty members from esteemed institutions, including the University of Twente, Technische Universität Graz, Kozminski University, and the University of Münster, converged to innovate a post-graduate program focused on B2B sales and customer management.
Also this year the academic family “SALTY“ of professor Sönke Albers (KLU) met to discuss the latest developments in Marketing.
This summer semester, the Chair of Marketing Management (IfM) was again able to offer students majoring in Marketing the opportunity to participate in a project seminar in cooperation with a renowned company. Together with this year's partner, BASF Coatings GmbH, a global leader in surface solutions, 24 students worked on five exciting and current topics related to "B2B Marketing Strategy @BASF Coatings".