MBA ETH SCM student Tamara Sanchez to conduct master thesis research at Singapore Management University
This year, the Chair of Logistics Management at ETH Zurich and the Green Transformation Lab at the Singapore Management University launched a joint initiative to host students from ETH Zurich who are working on their master theses.
The external pageGreen Transformation Lab, hosted by the external pageSingapore Management University’s School of Information Systems, in collaboration with DHL, creates innovative solutions to help organizations transform their business for sustainable green growth, driving change in supply chains across the Asia-Pacific region through education, research and best practice development. GTL’s educational programmes include providing guest lectures for undergraduate and postgraduate courses at SMU; offering internships to SMU undergraduates; providing scholarships for masters students’ capstone projects; and giving PhD candidates the opportunity to work on real-world projects as research assistants. More than 150 students in SMU have worked on various projects with GTL.
This year, the Chair of Logistics Management at ETH Zurich and the Green Transformation Lab at the Singapore Management University launched a joint initiative to host students from ETH Zurich who are working on their master theses. The collaboration is set up to give master’s students the opportunity to conduct research on real-world sustainability problems. This semester, Tamara Sanchez, an executive participant in ETH’s MBA program in Supply Chain Management, will develop a business case for sustainable packaging in the IT industry. Her work will be jointly supervised by external pageProf. Kar Way Tan, Academic Director of the Green Transformation Lab, Bublu Thakur-Weigold, Associate Director for Programs, and Ivana Mateska, PhD student and research associate at the Chair of Logistics Management.
This joint research initiative is also aimed at developing a pool of talents by giving students the opportunity to develop strong working knowledge of the industry and to engage in authentic research experiences to help companies steer a green transformation of their businesses.
To accelerate the evolution of sustainable logistics, GTL will continue to develop joint initiatives with international partners so that faculty and students can come together to work with DHL in developing new ideas and innovative solutions. “The lab’s vision is to be the catalyst for change,” said Prof Tan Kar Way.