Tevfik Demirciftci is a Ph.D. candidate at the William F. Harrah College of Hospitality at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He will be using Sawtooth Software to conduct a choice-based conjoint analysis to determine the willingness-to-pay of casino buffet customers. The goal of his dissertation is to understand the most important attributes for casino buffet restaurants.
Alina Bender is a master’s student of Human Resources Management / Personnel Politics at the University of Hamburg in Germany. Her research focusses on the tacit dimension of job attraction in multi-Incentive settings, and the role of social employment attributes and corporate characteristics regarding the employer choice decision-making process.
Alvan Ukachukwu studied Medicine at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and subsequently trained in Neurological Surgery at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. He has been practicing as a Neurosurgeon in Nigeria since 2015.
Jeannette Dinh is doctoral scholar at the Manchot Graduate School of “Competitiveness of young enterprises” at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf. She holds an M.Sc. degree in Business Administration from the University of Cologne and additionally completed the CEMS Master of International Management. Her research focuses on financing options for hybrid new ventures, i.e. young enterprises that create a social or ecological impact alongside economic value.
Kim van Leeuwen is a master student in Marketing Management at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. She has a background in Consumer behavior and focuses on a positive and sustainable relationship between companies and consumers.
Linda is a doctoral student in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. She investigates the psychological mechanisms underlying bias and discrimination in social decision-making. She is interested in creating scalable interventions to reduce harm and increase equity. In her dissertation, she examines context-dependence in social decision-making.
Saliha has a PhD degree in the Management Faculty at the Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey. She is a research assistant at ITU Industrial Engineering Department, and her main research interest is in service supply chain management.
Felix Schuhmacher is a master student in business informatics at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He is interested in research on cyber security. His thesis focuses on the impact of security metrics and security seals on user adoption of online services.
Arif Yustian is 34 years old Doctoral Candidate in Agribusiness Studies at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Brawijaya Indonesia. His research focuses on consumer preferences for certified vegetables. Certification is a way to scale up producers' competitiveness and give more buying confidence for consumers to get health and save vegetables. But in another way, doing the certification process needs more budget and energy for producers. The results of this study have important implications for producers and policymakers in marketing strategy and certification regulation.
Marije Slump is a Master student Global Business and Sustainability at the Rotterdam School of Management. Her field of research is focused on the transition to plant-based diets, and the role of marketing and communication strategies within the retail sector to help consumers make more sustainable decisions.