Evert de Haan won the SOM Best PhD Dissertation Award 2016 of the University of Groningen (NL) for his dissertation ‘Creating, managing and monitoring customer value in the on- and offline world.’ Prof. Thorsten Wiesel was Evert’s co-promotor together with Prof. Peter Verhoef of the University of Groningen. Currently, Evert de Haan holds a position as Junior Professor in Marketing at Goethe University Frankfurt. Congratulations!

For entertainment and media students, managers, and scholars, there is now a reason to look forward to the end of this year. Professors Thorsten Hennig-Thurau (LMM) and Mark B. Houston (Texas A&M University) will then open a unique vault of more than 35 years of high-quality scholarly research on the entertainment industry in their book "Entertainment Science". 

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.

Professor Manfred Krafft has been recently appointed as the first international member of the DSEF fellow program. The DSEF (Direct Selling Education Foundation) pursues the target of uniting science and economy by enabling an exchange among leading academics, students and industry executives. Currently, 75 renowned professors from various disciplines such as business administration, economics and law serve as DSEF fellows.

PD Dr. André Marchand erhielt Rufe an die BI Oslo und Universität zu Köln. Er hat den Ruf an die Universität zu Köln auf eine W2-Professur für „Marketing & Digital Environment“ zum 1. Juni 2017 angenommen. Die Themenschwerpunkte der neuen Marketingprofessur in Forschung und Lehre werden Digitalisierung, neue Medien und Innovationen sein.

Prof. Krafft and Dr. Tillmanns have been awarded the 2017 William Davidson Honorable Mention Award. They were runner-ups for the William R. Davidson Award with their article "The Evolution of Marketing Channel Research Domains and Methodologies: An Integrative Review and Future Directions". The award recognizes the best articles published in Journal of Retailing [VHB-Jourqual: A] in 2015.