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.

Also this year the academic family “SALTY“ of professor Sönke Albers (KLU) met to discuss the latest developments in Marketing.

Please join Educators-in-VR Founder Director Daniel Dyboski-Bryant and our XRLab@MCM's Research Executive Nilusha Aliman and Academic Director Professor Thorsten Hennig-Thurau on Thursday when they explore the powers of using VR in education and share their insights on how teaching can benefit from a virtual dimension!

In the middle of September, Professor Krafft and his team from the Chair of Marketing Management (IfM) visited the Department of Marketing at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, which is headed by Professor Stefan Hoffmann. In compliance with the COVID 19 protection measures, an exchange-rich colloquium was organized that offered ample room for discussions.

MCM scholars Kai Manke (LMM) and Raoul Kübler (JPM&MA) win together with Professor Koen Pauwels from Northeastern University Boston the inaugural “Most Promising Research” Award of this year’s Interactive Marketing Research conference sponsored by the Lazaridis Institute of Technology.

In their award-winning research study “An Analysis of Social Media Engagement in the Case of the 2016 US Presidential Elections“ the international team examines how the social media strategies of the two presidential candidates drove the election outcome in 2016.

At the end of September, the team from the Chair of Marketing Management (IfM) around Professor Krafft visited the markstones Institute of Christoph Burmann, Maik Eisenbeiß and Kristina Klein at the University of Bremen. In the course of a colloquium, five projects were presented by doctoral students. Of course, attention was paid to the compliance with the applicable COVID-19 protection measures, so that the colloquium also served as a good trial run for potential attendance events this coming winter semester.