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)

Publications:

• "From Corporate Social Responsibility to Market Demand: The Role of Brand Management", in: Marketing ZFP - Journal of Research and Management (42:2), 2020, 35-54 (with Mark Heitmann, Alexander Permann and Maxine Materne)

Current employer:

PriceHubble Deutschland GmbH

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)

Publications:

• "From Corporate Social Responsibility to Market Demand: The Role of Brand Management", in: Marketing ZFP - Journal of Research and Management (42:2), 2020, 35-54 (with Nima Mehrafshan, Mark Heitmann and Maxine Materne)

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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Prof. Dr. Christina Schamp

Title of doctoral thesis:

"Ethicality in the Marketplace" (2018)

Publications:

• "Comparing automated text classification methods", in: International Journal of Research in Marketing, (36:1), 2019, 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", in: Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, (47:2), 2019, 328-348 (with Robin Katzenstein and Mark Heitmann)
• "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

Dr. Julia Stehmann 

Title of doctoral thesis:

"Essays on Consumer Behavior" (2020)

Publications:

• "Identifying research streams in online gambling and gaming literature: A bibliometric analysis", in: Computers in Human Behavior, 2019, Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.106219 

Current employer:

Tchibo GmbH

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 (mit Christina Schamp und Mark Heitmann)

Current employer:

McKinsey & Company, Inc.

Jochen Hartmann

Title of doctoral thesis:

"Essays on Machine Learning in Marketing" (working title)

Publications:

• "Comparing automated text classification methods", International Journal of Research in Marketing, 2018 (with Juliana Huppertz, Christina Schamp and Mark Heitmann), Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167811618300545
• "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 Mark Heitmann, Christina Schamp and Oded Netzer)
• “More Than a Feeling: Benchmarks for Sentiment Analysis Accuracy”, 2020, available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3489963 (with Mark Heitmann, Christian Siebert and Christina Schamp)

Current employer:

University of Hamburg