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The secret to successful open innovation initiatives
A new study by Linus Dahlander, associate professor and KPMG Chair in Innovation at ESMT, co-authored with Henning Piezunka, a PhD candidate at Stanford University, finds that organizations that…
The vicious circle of customer loyalty
In a study published in the Journal of Marketing, my co-authors and I analyzed data from over 7,500 consultations with customers in the retail sector, including car dealerships, furniture outlets,…
The world can be local
A common theme in literature on organizational learning is the importance of learning from sources outside an organization’s boundaries. Unfortunately, organizations tend to collect external…
Don’t say "sorry": Proactively build your customers’ resistance against service failure
Maintaining customer satisfaction is a difficult endeavor that presents at least two obstacles: First, since variations in service performance levels are hard to avoid, service failures are common…
What would a 'Brexit' mean for Europe?
Europe faces one of its most challenging situations in decades and stands at the crossroads. A Brexit could trigger similar movements in other EU countries, in the Netherlands for instance, and…
Innovation challenge: Why companies kill great projects and how to avoid this happening
“It’s not fair.” All parents have heard this statement from their children, and all developers have said it more than once. In the race for R&D budgets within companies, project leaders whose…
A proposal for GH7/G20 policy coordination to strengthen global productivity and output growth
The progressive integration of the global economy over the past 70 years has achieved massive increases in output and per capita income and has brought millions of people out of poverty. But now…
At ESMT Berlin, Bitcoin pays off
ESMT students have been welcome to pay their tuition with bitcoin since December 2016, when ESMT became the first German university to accept bitcoin as payment. In the interview, Garlichs explains…
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Information on data protection and data security at the ESMT European School of Management and Technology GmbH May 25, 2018 1. Introduction This Privacy Policy applies to the websites of ESMT…
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