For her volunteer work and academic achievements, Tran Ha Linh Phan has been awarded the DAAD Prize 2025 by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The Vietnamese student has been pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems at the University of Münster since the winter semester 2022/23.
Prof. Dr. Martin Artz, Head of the Institute of Management Accounting and Control at the University of Münster, has received the Best Management Accounting Paper Award from the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association. The award was granted jointly to Prof. Artz and his co-authors Jens Böke (Research Assistant at the Institute of Prof. Artz), Martin Holzhacker (Michigan State University), and Michal Matějka (Arizona State University).
Prof. Dr. Nadine Riedel, Head of the Institute for Public and Regional Economics at the University of Münster, has published an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung entitled “The Proposed Tax Incentives Against Labor and Skilled Worker Shortages Are Only a Partial Measure”, together with Johanna Hey (University of Cologne), Martin Jacob (IESE Business School Barcelona), and Dominika Langenmayr (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt). All four authors are members of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry of Finance.
‘Welcome to the School of Business and Economics’ is the message for numerous new students this semester. Prof. Dr. Thomas Langer, Dean of the School, welcomed the first-year students during orientation week (O-Woche), which was organised by the WiWi student council and is considered the largest in North Rhine-Westphalia. With 530 new enrolments, the Bachelor's programme in Business Administration has the most enrolments university-wide. The new international students were welcomed by Sina Heidtke from the International Relations Center.
A major success for the University of Münster at this year’s Enactus World Cup: The project “Seads Solution” from the Enactus team Münster made it into the Top 4 teams worldwide in the global student competition for sustainable entrepreneurship. Reaching the finals alone earned SEADS a prize of 2,000 USD, and in addition, the team won the prestigious “Sufficiency Economy Philosophy” (SEP) Award, presented by main sponsor Thai Beverage, worth 9,100 USD, which will now be invested in the project.
As part of the VIP programme of the School of Business and Economics, Prof. Samir Chatterjee and Prof. Alan Hevner will now be strengthening the research and teaching activities of the Institute for Information Systems. Samir Chatterjee is a professor at the Centre for Information Systems & Technology at Claremont Graduate University. Alan Hevner is a professor at the School of Information Systems and Management at the Muma College of Business at the University of South Florida.
On September 17 and 18, 2025, the second bootcamp of the EU-funded CURATE project took place at REACH – EUREGIO Start-up Center in Münster. The bootcamp was led by Prof. Tobias Brandt and Shariga Sivanathan from the Chair of Digital Innovation and the Public Sector.
Students from the partner universities Haaga-Helia (Finland), MCI The Entrepreneurial School (Austria), Université Côte d'Azur (France), and the Technical University of Košice (Slovakia) came together to present their final challenge pitches to corporate partners, experts, and their mentors.
In part 21 of the Alumni Stories, we feature Prof. Dr. Ann-Marie Nienaber, who studied Business Administration at the University of Münster and also earned her doctorate there. After positions as a postdoctoral researcher and as the City of Münster’s Commissioner for Science, her path led her via a professorship in Witten/Herdecke to the United Kingdom, where she has held the Chair of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour at Coventry University since 2017. In October, she will move to Technische Universität Braunschweig to establish the new Chair of Business Ethics. Her research focuses primarily on trust, communication, innovation, and sustainability, as well as the ethical implications of artificial intelligence.
Subsidies are considered a key instrument of green transformation—from the purchase of heat pumps to the promotion of climate-friendly technologies. A recent analysis in Wirtschaftsdienst by Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt, Chair of Behavioral and Digital Economics, at the University of Münster, and Christian Wey from the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics shows that so-called inverse subsidies are significantly more efficient.
