Alumni

Dr. Lucas Bremer

Title of doctoral thesis: 

“Essays on Social Networks and Consumer Behavior” (2013)

Awards: 

• Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award 2013
• BVM/VMÖ Award of the German Market Research Association 2014 for young researchers (2nd place)

Publications:

• "Building a Social Network for Success", in: Journal of Marketing Research (55:3), 2018, 321-338 (with Asim Ansari, Mark, Heitmann and Florian Stahl)

Current employer:

quantilope GmbH (founder)

Dr. Nima Mehrafshan

Title of doctoral thesis:

“Essays on Value Creation in Marketing Management” (2013)

Current employer:

YouVal GmbH (founder)

Dr. Olaf Maecker

Title of doctoral thesis:

“Essays on the Impact of Social Influences on Market Demand and Customer Retention” (2014)

Publications:

• "Charts and Demand: Empirical Generalizations on Social Influence", in: International Journal of Research in Marketing, (30:4), 2013, 429-431 (with Nadja Grabenströer, Michel Clement, Mark Heitmann)

• "The Effect of Social Media Interactions on Customer Relationship Management", in: Business Research 9(1), 2016, 133-155 (with Christian Barrot, Jan Becker)

Current employer:

DATALOGUE GmbH

Dr. Jan Timmann

Title of doctoral thesis:

“The Unit of Measurement of Design: Empirical Investigation of an Objective Product Aesthetic Using the Example of the Automobile" (2015)

Current employer:

McKinsey & Company, Inc.

Dr. Karin Ludwig 

Title of doctoral thesis:

“Essays on Information Processing of Consumer” (2015)

Current employer:

OBI

Dr. Alexander Permann

Title of doctoral thesis:

“The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility & Cause-Related Marketing on Firm Success” (2016)

Current employer:

DATALOGUE GmbH

Dr. Verena Mathews (née Hauschildt)

Title of doctoral thesis:

"Essays on Information Processing and Decision Behavior" (2017)

Awards: 

• IFAMA Symposium Best Paper Award (first place): An Empirical Investigation into the Adoption of Green Procurement Practices in the German Food Service Industry. IFAMA Conference 2014, Cape Town.

Publications:

• Strelow, E., Hauschildt, V., Heitmann, M. & Scheier, C. (2017). Studying Shelf Framing With Multiple Consumer Insights. Marketing Review St.Gallen, Vol. 3, pp. 68-74.
• Hauschildt, V. & Schulze-Ehlers, B. (2014). An Empirical Investigation into the Adoption of Green Procurement Practices in the German Food Service Industry, International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, Vol. 13, Iss. 3, pp. 1-32.

Current employer:

Otto

Dr. Juliana Huppertz

Title of doctoral thesis:

"Social Media Marketing: The Role of Firm- and Consumer Communication" (2018)

Publications:

• "Comparing automated text classification methods", in: International Journal of Research in Marketing, 2018 (with Jochen Hartmann, Christina Schamp and Mark Heitmann)

Current employer:

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Robin Katzenstein

Title of doctoral thesis:

"Essays on Ethical Consumerism" (working title)

Publications:

• "Consideration of ethical attributes along the consumer decision-making journey", in: Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, (47:2), 2019, 328-348 (with Christina Schamp and Mark Heitmann)

Current employer:

McKinsey & Company, Inc.

Julia Stehmann 

Prof. Dr. Christina Schamp                                                                                                                   

Title of doctoral thesis:

"Ethicality in the Marketplace" (2018)

Publications:

• "Comparing automated text classification methods", International Journal of Research in Marketing, (36:1), 2018, 20-38 (with Jochen Hartmann, Juliana Huppertz and Mark Heitmann), Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167811618300545 
• "Consideration of ethical attributes along the consumer decision-making journey", Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, (47:2), 2019, 328-348 (with Mark Heitmann and Robin Katzenstein), Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11747-019-00629-x
• "The Power of Brand Selfies in Consumer-Generated Brand Images", 2019, available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3354415 (with Jochen Hartmann, Mark Heitmann and Oded Netzer)

Current employer:

University of Mannheim