2021

Given the extensive work on supply chain risk over the past 15 years, Prof. Dr. Stephan Wagner was asked for an interview by the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation’s (SRF) online channel SWI swissinfo.ch.

The “REHAU Preis Wirtschaft 2020/2021” was awarded to Leonie Flückiger for her master thesis on blockchain projects in the luxury goods industry.

The Regional Best Paper Presentation Award at the 2021 Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Annual Conference was awarded to Felix Bergmann for his research on the influence that various last-mile logistics services have on the purchase behavior of e-commerce customers.

Dr. Bublu Thakur-Weigold attended the Hybrid ETH Symposium at the Berlin Science Week 2021. She presented her work and talked about the important contribution of humanitarian projects in the non-profit sector.

After more than three years, Prof. Dr. Stephan Wagner published a reference book with Oxford University Press together with colleagues from the United States and Asia. The handbook supports supply chain management academia, practice and society in solving the world’s most pressing problems and issues.

The Best Student Presentation and Paper Award at the 2021 European Decision Sciences Institute (EDSI) online conference was awarded to Felix Bergmann for his research on the influence that various last-mile logistics services have on the purchase behavior of e-commerce customers.

Based on an analysis of citations, the recent Stanford University study (Ioannidis, Boyack & Baas, 2020) identified Prof. Dr. Stephan Wagner as a top scholar in the field of Economics & Business for single year and career-long impact, that is, put him among the top 2% of nearly eight million authors.

The second Humanitarian Operations and Supply Chain Management (HumOSCM) course was delivered this spring with participants from various technical specialties including two from Kenya, Africa. 

Completing her MSc studies at ETH Zurich, Charlotte Girardin wrote her master thesis at our HumOSCM Lab. The thesis was now selected by the Hanken School of Economics as the “HUMLOG Board Award Winner 2021”.

Fabian Alber’s thesis – written at the Chair of Logistics Management – entitled “The Influence of Innovative Last-Mile Logistics Services on Customer's Buying Decisions” was awarded the “Wissenschaftspreis 2021” by EHI Foundation and GS1 Germany, which is endowed with 5000 €.