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Conference on purchasing finance – Profit potential through purchasing intelligence
Prof. Dr. Stephan Wagner and Dr. Alwin Locker organized, kicked-off, and moderated a conference on purchasing intelligence with procure.ch – the Swiss association for purchasing and supply management.
Dr. Kamil Mizgier receives Best Paper Award from the Journal of Operational Risk
The highly competitive paper of the year award was given to a team of ETH authors for their work where they used dynamic extreme value theory (EVT) to explore the links between internal control weaknesses and the severity of operational losses.
Prof. Wagner interviewed on US–China trade war and global production networks
In an interview for "Finanz und Wirtschaft", Prof. Dr. Stephan M. Wagner emphasized that supply chains cannot be adapted easily and quickly, and that it is an illusion that trade barriers help to regain innovative capabilities that now reside with outside and foreign suppliers.