News and events of Tilburg School of Economics and Management
News
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Jeff Campbell appointed as Professor of Macroeconometrics
11th June 2021Tilburg University has appointed Dr. Campbell as Professor of Macroeconometrics at the Department Econometrics and Operations Research in the Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TiSEM), effective June 1, 2021. His research covers Econometrics, Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics.
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Marco Da Rin receives prestigious Comenius grant for 'Entrepreneurial Literacy Initiative'
07th June 2021NWO/NRO has awarded dr. Marco Da Rin, associate professor of Finance at Tilburg School of Economics and Management, a Comenius Senior Fellowship. This was recently announced by NWO. He receives the Fellowship for his 'Entrepreneurial Literacy Initiative', a technology-enabled platform to provide students with knowledge and tools to understand what an entrepreneurial career is, whether it suits their talents and ambitions, and how to build it up.
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In memoriam Piet Verheyen
07th June 2021Emeritus Professor of Business Economics Piet Verheyen, connected to Tilburg's Faculty of Economics from 1962 to 1996, passed away Wednesday, June 2, at the age of 89.
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Why employers would be wise to let their employees work from home during the corona pandemic?
07th June 2021The daily newspaper contain full-page ads from the Dutch government: ‘Work from home. We are getting better and better at it’. This appeal to companies to allow their employees to work from home is necessary since there are still many businesses that force their workers to come to the office, even though they can do their work equally well from home. Given public health concerns this ban is obviously an ill-advised decision. But the employers concerned clearly put their business interests first. But is that wise?
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Zero Hunger Lab awarded EUR 500,000 for food waste research
02nd June 2021Under the Farm to Fork Strategy of the EU’s Horizon 2020 instrument, the European Commission has awarded EUR 12 million to the research program ZeroW: Systemic Innovations Towards a Zero Food Waste Supply Chain. A consortium of 43 parties, one of which is Tilburg University, is poised to study how food waste in the food chain can be drastically reduced.
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TiSEM and Asset conclude recruitment agreement with Unilever
11th May 2021On May 11, Unilever signed a recruitment agreement with TiSEM and Asset. The agreement will take effect - retroactively - on September 1, 2020. This partnerships marks the beginning of long-term and efficient collaboration between Unilever and all parties within TiSEM and Asset engaged in preparation for the job market.
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Tilburg University student speaks at closing session of major UN conference
11th May 2021Olaf Steenbergen, Information Management student at Tilburg University, addressed the humanitarian community during the closing (online) session of the Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks 2021.
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Economist Florian Sniekers on the state of the economy after the corona crisis
30th April 2021In the second episode of 'De Tafel van Martinus', economist Florian Sniekers shares his views on the state of the economy after the corona crisis (in Dutch)
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Samuel Stäbler one of the finalists AMA-MSI-Root Award
29th April 2021Samuel Stäbler has been a runner-up for the prestigious AMA-MSI-Root Award for his 2020 Journal of Marketing publication (co-authored by Marc Fischer from the University of Cologne) entitled: “When Does Corporate Social Irresponsibility Become News? Evidence from More Than 1,000 Brand Transgressions Across Five Countries”.
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Paper Rik Pieters accepted for publication in Psychological Science
29th April 2021The paper by Rik Pieters on “Gender Gaps in Deceptive Self-Presentation on Social Media Platforms Vary with Gender Equality: A Multinational Investigation,” co-authored by Dasha Kolesnyk (University of Twente) and Martijn de Jong (Erasmus University), has been accepted for publication in Psychological Science.
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Tilburg Science Hub – Conduct your research differently
23rd April 2021Hannes Datta, Tobias Klein and Andrea Antonacci (TiSEM) have developed Tilburg Science Hub, an online resource that helps individual students, researchers, data scientists, and teams to carry out data- and computation-intensive projects efficiently.
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KNAW honors 6 proposals from pilot fund ‘Science Communication: Appreciated!’
22nd April 2021Six submissions from Tilburg University to the KNAW pilot fund 'Science Communication by Scientists: Appreciated!’ have been awarded. TiSEM, TSB and TLS each have been awarded two proposals. 'Appreciated!' is meant for ongoing science communication projects being carried out by teams of scientists. Each team receives €10,000 and should consist of at least three scientists.
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Paper Samuel Stäbler accepted for publication in Marketing Letters
22nd April 2021The paper of Samuel Stäbler on “The Street Music Business: Consumer Responses to Buskers Performing on the Street and on Online Video Platforms” (a collaboration with Kim Katharina Mierisch, a consultant at Simon-Kucher & Partners) has been accepted for publication in Marketing Letters.
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Vici grant for econometrician Johan van Leeuwaarden: Balancing load in the 'cloud'
14th April 2021Prof. Johan van Leeuwaarden (dept. Econometrics & Operations Research) has been awarded an NWO Vici grant for research into algorithms in the 'cloud'. The Vici grant amounts to 1.5 million euros. He will develop new algorithms that let us find quickly a short queue in enormous data centers.
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Zero Hunger Lab and World Food Programme win prestigious Franz Edelman Award
14th April 2021Tilburg University’s Zero Hunger Lab in co-creation with World Food Programme (WFP) has won the Franz Edelman Award, the world’s most prestigious award for achievement in the practice of analytics and operations research.
