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PhD defence: Supply Chain Contracting for After-sales Service and Product Support
In his dissertation ‘Supply Chain Contracting for After-sales Service and Product Support’ ERIM’s Dong Li studies several nontrivial service contracting problems concerning optimal design of contract terms, spare parts inventory and service capacity management, and service outsourcing control.
PhD defence: Structuring Warehouse Management: Exploring the fit between warehouse characteristics and warehouse planning and control structure, and its effect on warehouse performance
In her dissertation ‘Structuring Warehouse Management: Exploring the fit between warehouse characteristics and warehouse planning and control structure, and its effect on warehouse performance’, ERIM’s Nynke Faber studies the management processes that plan, control, and optimize warehouse operations.
Professionals tackle leadership challenges with big data
Professionals in technical and methodology-oriented data science and business analytics will learn how to conquer leadership challenges with big data during a new executive education programme by Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and Erasmus School of Economics. Participants will learn to understand data techniques they can instantly apply in order to achieve business objectives.
ECMI supports UNICEF to innovate for a better society
In the minor course, "Innovation and Marketing" (FEB53112M), students will apply the concepts and frameworks from the course to an actual business project for UNICEF. Students will work as external consultants to help this partner develop a new business idea. They will have exclusive access to some representatives from this organization. During the business project, students are asked to develop new ideas and to present your approaches to a board of representatives from the organization. They will be assigned to teams and will compete with the other teams for coming up with a "winning" solution to the problem. The winning team will receive the ECMI Marketing and Innovation Minor Champion 2015 trophy and a certificate.
PhD Defence: The Accountable Animal - Naturalising the Management Control Problem
Social relations make up an important part of the way organisations are controlled and are therefore a central topic in management accounting research. In his dissertation ‘The Accountable Animal: Naturalising the Management Control Problem’ ERIM’s Philip Eskenazi examines two themes around this topic which makes use of developments in neuroscience and eye-tracking research by importing theories and methods to supplement the traditional psychological and economic perspective on management accounting.
Veni grant to Dr. Gabriele Paolacci for improving quality of online research
Veni grants are awarded to promising researchers up to three years after completing their doctoral thesis, and can fund up to three years of work to develop ideas and gather data. The maximum grant is €250,000 per researcher.
Niels Rietveld awarded VENI grant
Niels Rietveld, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Economics of Erasmus School of Economics, is awarded a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Niels Rietveld receives a Veni grant of €250,000 for a 3 year research project.
PhD Defence: Passengers, Information, and Disruptions
ERIM’s Evelien van der Hurk confronts issues related to disruptions in passenger rail and how information on digital passenger track record data can be used to improve service. Evelien maps the complex interactions among passengers and between passengers and schedules in order to detect points of intervention, of which the key forms are re-routing and route information updates. The resultant model was built on data provided by NS (Dutch Passenger Rail) and the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority.
PhD Defence: Preference Construction under Prominence
In his dissertation ERIMs Ioannis Evangelidis notes that people generally neglect the importance they place on product attributes when making purchases, which may lead to sub-optimal purchases. Ioannis argues that this is a result of influences from the decision environment, specifically in relation to the options we are presented and the manner in which attributes are described. Moreover, Ioannis prescribes policy measures which can be taken to nudge desired or optimal behaviour.