Defending a PhD thesis during Corona times
| Date: | 15 December 2020 |
Aline Seepma was one of FEB’s PhD students affected by the covid-19 measures taken by the Dutch government. Although this created uncertainty for her, in the end there were also some positive side effects.
Seminar with some reflections on the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
| Date: | 15 December 2020 |
The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2020 was awarded to Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson for their “improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats” (Royal Academy of Science, 2020).
What a Dutch-German army integration can teach us about employee engagement
| Date: | 10 December 2020 |
In 2016, the Dutch and German army placed multiple units of the 43 Mechanised Brigade and the First Armored Division under each other’s command and started exchanging personnel between these units. In one unit, 350 German and 100 Dutch soldiers work...
Hand in hand comrades? Is "franchise camaraderie" a curse or a blessing?
| Date: | 03 July 2020 |
| Author: | Dr. Evelien P.M. Croonen |
I regularly see beautiful collaborations between local entrepreneurs. Think of entrepreneurs who develop a collective city app with delivery service, or a joint drive-in of catering entrepreneurs during the Corona crisis. These examples show how powerful...
The danger of subtle forms of discrimination
| Date: | 01 July 2020 |
| Author: | Professor Floor Rink |
Last week, the media was full of national and international demonstrations against discrimination and social inequality. And this while many countries are still in lockdown, or just slowly coming out of a lockdown, due to the new coronavirus. For months,...
For Floyd or Money: Why are CEOs commenting on racial injustice?
| Date: | 16 June 2020 |
| Author: | Swarnodeep Homroy |
US CEOs, mostly from conservative backgrounds, are widely commenting on the tragic killing of George Floyd, despite a potential for adverse reaction of the investors to these statements. In recent times, CEOs are increasingly speaking on social issues,...
Masks instead of coffee filters and ventilators rather than cars
| Date: | 28 May 2020 |
| Author: | Pedro de Faria, Bart Los and Florian Noseleit |
What are the implications of adaptive innovations for Post-Covid-19 Innovation Policies?
How can companies cope with disruption from Covid-19?
| Date: | 06 May 2020 |
A Forced Digital Transformation in University Education
| Date: | 28 April 2020 |
[text in Dutch below] Digital transformation is gaining much attention in the business press. Digital transformation concerns the change of business to a fully digital operation of their activities to create value for their customers. Firms like Amazon,...
Pandemic-Related Innovation: Don't Leave It to Markets
| Date: | 21 April 2020 |
| Author: | Pedro de Faria, Bart Los and Florian Noseleit |
The Covid-19 crisis has put unprecedented pressure on health systems around the world. Curbing the effects of the virus requires a massive use of complex products, such as ventilators and testing equipment. Past large investments in science and R&D have...