2020

At the 40th Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual Conference, Stefan Naef presented his research on the effects of production outsourcing on product innovation. It was nominated as a finalist for the best paper award in the Corporate Strategy Interest Group.

The prestigious Best Theory‐Driven Empirical Research Paper Award at the 2020 Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Annual Conference was given for a novel project on supply chain sustainability risks.

Our HumOSCM Lab successfully acquired a two-year ETH4D Research Challenges Grant financed by the ETH Board, which helps to improve decision-making for cost-effective medical supply. The project concentrates on the distribution of medical supplies to ICRC assisted health facilities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo/DRC, Kenya and Somalia

The 2020 “F.A.Z.-Ökonomenranking” (ranking of economists) again included Prof. Dr. Stephan Wagner as an influential economist in the category “research”. This is the sixth time in a row, and up two places compared to the previous year.

Niklas Friederici is a Master student in ETH’s MTEC program. He is currently writing his Master thesis under the co-supervision of the Chair of Logistics Management and the Cyber-Human Lab in Cambridge.

Our HumOSCM Lab successfully acquired an ETH4D Research Challenges Grant financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) which supports a project with the Ministry of Health of Uganda to strengthen logistics preparedness for disease outbreaks.

Prof. Dr. Stephan Wagner and his co-authors were chosen as winners of the Journal of Supply Chain Management (JSCM) 2020 Best Paper Award. This is another important recognition of the research excellence of the team at the Chair of Logistics Management at ETH Zurich.

Sarah Schaumann, a PhD candidate at the Chair of Logistics Management, wrote the master thesis at the chair before commencing her PhD. The Bundesvereinigung Logistik (BVL) honored her thesis with the BVL Thesis Award.

The article entitled “The Impact of Supplier Sustainability Risk on Shareholder Value” published in the Journal of Supply Chain Management (JSCM) has been shortlisted for the 2020 Best Paper Award at the 2020 Academy of Management Meeting.

The latest “Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020” revealed that ETH Zurich’s research in the field of management is no. 1 in the German-speaking counties and plays in the European top league. The scholarly work of the Chair of Logistics Management contributes to this achievement.

Alexander Lagrèze, a recent graduate of the MSc ETH MTEC program wrote his master thesis under the supervision of the Chair of Logistics Management, for which he received a prestigious award from the SEW Eurodrive Foundation.

The track “Humanitarian Operations and Supply Chain Management” at the 2020 Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Annual Meeting, San Francisco November 21–23, headed by Prof. Dr. Stephan M. Wagner, accepts abstracts and papers and welcomes proposals for workshops, tutorial or panel discussions.

In its “Rendez-vous” broadcast program, Swiss Radio SRF discussed the impact of the coronavirus on the Swiss and European logistics industry and inbound and outbound supply chains. In an interview, Prof. Dr. Stephan Wagner helps to understand the current situation.

Building on prior projects and following its practice-based research approach, the HumOSCM Lab works with the World Food Program (WFP) and numerous other organizations in Uganda on improving the logistics of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) response.

After having served as an Associate Editor since 2012, the Editors-in-Chief selected Prof Dr. Stephan M. Wagner as Department Editor for the “Empirical Research in Operations Management” Department of Decision Sciences, a premier operations, supply chain, and information systems journal.

As a next step of its expansion, the Humanitarian Operations and Supply Chain Management Lab (HumOSCM Lab) joined the ETH for Development (ETH4D) initiative. This will enable the HumOSCM Lab to have access and to contribute to the wider engineering, natural and social sciences resources of ETH Zurich in humanitarian development and poverty reduction.