Wednesday, May 22
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| 19.00 – 23.00 Conference Opening at Traditional Zims Brauhaus (Heumarkt 77, 50667 Köln) | ||
Thursday, May 23
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| Time | Research Track 1 | Research Track 2 | Practitioner Track |
| 07.30 – 08.30 | Registration (Room: First floor in front of Dreikönigssaal) | ||
| 08.30 – 10.00 | 1.1 Artificial Intelligence (Chair: Kerry Hudson, Room: Dreikönigssaal) | 2.1 (e)WOM (Chair: Philip Pollmann-Fervers, Room: Quirinius) The Stock Market Impact of Deceptive Reviews (Philip Pollmann-Fervers, Marc Fischer, Alexander Edeling and Thomas P. Scholdra) | "Selecting the Ideal Marketing KPI" by Schmalenbach Working Group on Marketing Performance Analytics (Chair: Marc Fischer, U Cologne, Room: Heribert) Marketing to the CFO: Linking Marketing to the Drivers of Financial Value (Jonathan Knowles, Type2Consulting) Top-down Principles of Marketing KPI Selection (Marc Fischer, U Cologne) Case Study on KPI Implementation in Sports Business (Alexander Mühl, Borussia Dortmund Football Club) Case Study on KPI Implementation in Utility Business (Kristina Rodig, E.ON) |
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10.30 – 12.00 | 1.2 Climate Marketing & ESG (Chair: Adnan Yusuf, Room: Dreikönigssaal) Climate Marketing Strategies and Firm Value (Sakshi Sanjay Babar and Sundar Bharadwaj) How ESG Reduces Risk: The Role of Consumers and Institutional Investors (Ashwin Malshe, Yi Yin, Anatoli Colicev, Yakov Bart, and Koen Pauwels) The Critical Role of Marketing Power in the Relationship between ESG Scores & Firm Value (Adnan Yusuf and Bernd Skiera) | 2.2 Marketing Leadership (Chair: Lily (Xuehui) Gao, Room: Quirinius) Chief Marketing Officer Departures: Do Gender and Race Matter? (Qiong Tang, Sascha Raithel, and Xueming Luo) When Marketer Gets the Top Job: How Marketing CEOs Influence Firm’s Product Market Strategy (Shekhar Misra, Ben Lee, and Christophe Haon) Power Your CMO to Generate Firm Value: A Perspective from AI Analytics (Lily (Xuehui) Gao, Qiong Tang, and Sascha Raithel) | Advancements in Marketing Mix Modeling (Chair: Sascha Stürze, Analyx, Room: Heribert) |
| 12.00 – 13.30 | Lunch & Networking (Restaurant on the ground floor) | ||
| 13.30 – 13.45 | Welcome address | Prof. Marc Fischer (U Cologne), Prof. Alexander Edeling (KU Leuven), Room: Dreikönigssaal | ||
| 13.45 – 14.45 | Panel discussion: The Era of AI and ESG Goals – Implications for Marketers, Investors, and Valuators | Dr. Anke Nestler (Senior Managing Director FTI Consulting), Susanne Bregy (CEO, German Impact Investment Association), Prof. Alina Sorescu (U Texas A&M), Prof. Dominique Hanssens (UCLA), Room: Dreikönigssaal | ||
| 15.00 – 16.30 | 1.3 Text Analytics (Chair: Tarun Kushwaha, Room: Dreikönigssaal) Forward-Looking Disclosure of Customer Metrics in IPO Prospectuses and IPO Performance (Simeng Han, Emanuel Bayer, and Bernd Skiera) Strategic Mindsets, Business Performance and Market Capitalization Across Developed and Emerging Markets (Rajendra Srivastava, Shankar Prakash and Vijay Shankar) Does Breaking News Break Investors' Attention? (Tarun Kushwaha, Andre Martin, Eunho Park and Reo Song) | 2.3 Marketing & Firm Value (Chair: Alexander Edeling, Room: Quirinius) Measuring Scalability and Deriving their Antecedents and Financial Consequences (Johannes Roscher and Bernd Skiera) Which Marketing Event Has the Largest Firm Value Impact? A Meta-Analysis (Alexander Edeling, Inês Ferraz Teixeira, Alexander Mafael, and Yves Van Vaerenbergh) | Leveraging the Value of Marketing (Chair: Shuba Srinivasan, Boston University, Room: Heribert) Blended Workforce with AI Support for Brand Managers (Carsten Hahn, SAP) How to Predict E-com KPIs from Public Data: Shopify’s GMV (Maximilian Kaiser, Grips) The Impact of Advertising On a Company’s Stock Price (Shuba Srinivasan, BU, and Dominique Hanssens, UCLA) Pricing in Earnings Calls (Kai Bandilla, Laurent Veyssier, Simon-Kucher, Office Paris) |
| 16.30 – 17.00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 17.00 – 18.30 | 1.4 Sociopolitical Activism & News (Chair: Guiyang Xiong, Room: Dreikönigssaal) The Dual Impact of Corporate Activism on Brand Choice and Public Interest in Sociopolitical Issues (Ludovica Scalco, Koen Pauwels, and Anders Gustafsson) Investors’ Reaction to Corporate Sociopolitical Responses Amidst Salient Sociopolitical Unrest: Timing Matters (Nooshin Warren, Yashoda Bhagwat, and Pankhuri Malhotra) Negative News Spillover Effects and Rival's Strategic Reactions (Xiaobo Lin, Guiyang Xiong, and Shuai Yang) | 2.4 Product Recalls (Chair: Arvid Hoffmann, Room: Quirinius) An opportunity in product recalls: The impact of recall compliance on financial and non-financial firm performance (Jan von Schlieben-Troschke and Sascha Raithel) Shareholder Litigation Risk and Product Recalls (Arvid Hoffmann, Chee Cheong, Hoàng-Long Phan, and Ralf Zurbruegg) | Unstructured Data (Chair: Jan Klostermann, Room: Heribert) Working With Unstructured Data – Introducing the BERD Platform (Jan Klostermann and Marc Fischer, University of Cologne)
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| 19.30 – 24.00 | Gala & Community Event at Wolkenburg (Mauritiussteinweg 59-61, 50676 Cologne) | ||
Friday, May 24
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| Time | Research Track 1 | Research Track 2 |
| 08.30 – 10.00 | 3.1 Earnings Calls (Chair: Alexander Edeling, Room: Dreikönigssaal) Disclosure of Pricing Information in Earnings Calls: A Text Mining Approach (Alexander Edeling, Alexander Himme, Paul Hilfrich, and Shuba Srinivasan) | 4.1 Marketing Strategies (Chair: Saurabh Mishra, Room: Quirinius)
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| 10.00 – 10.30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10.30 – 12.00 | 3.2 Economic Climate & Regulation (Chair: Manish Kacker, Room: Dreikönigssaal) Should Manufacturers Curtail Unauthorized Distribution? The Financial Consequences of Combating Gray Markets (Mohammad B. Kayed and Manish Kacker) | 4.2 Investor Behavior (Chair: Markku Kaustia, Room: Quirinius) Greenwashing in mutual funds (Markku Kaustia and Wenjia Yu) |
| 12.00 – 13.30 | Lunch & Networking (Restaurant on the ground floor) | |
| 13.30 – 15.00 | 3.3 CSR, Green, & Health Marketing (Chair: Stefan Worm, Room: Dreikönigssaal) Corporate Social Responsibility and Marketing Performance – A Firm-Level Meta-Analysis (Stefan Worm, Ashkan Faramarzi, Mariia Koval, and Shekhar Misra) | 4.3 Marketing Capabilities (Chair: Thomas Plociennik, Room: Quirinius) Market Your Share! Marketing Capabilities, Investor Relations and Firm Performance (Andre Tomano, Thomas Post, Niels Holtrop, and Joost Pennings) The Context Dependency of Marketing (Jonathan Knowles) Beyond the Myth and into the Market: Unicorns Post-IPO (Thomas Plociennik, Robin Ackermann, and Harley Krohmer) |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Coffee Break | |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | 3.4 Assessing Marketing Performance (Chair: Jonathan Matzinger, Room: Dreikönigssaal) Managing Return on Advertising Spend (Christian Schulze, Florian Ellsäßer, and Maximilian Kaiser) Stronger Together – The Complementary Effects of Real-Time and Survey-Based Brand Measures on Shareholder Value (Zeynep Karagür) Configurations of Corporate Reputation and their Impact on Wall Street: Anna Karenina vs. The Great Gatsby (Jonathan Matzinger, Harley Krohmer, Andreas Hediger, and Clemens Ammann) | 4.4 Product Innovation (Chair: Martin Fritze, Room: Quirinius) Seven Key Questions Wall Street should be asking about your innovation pipeline……(but isn’t yet!) (Peter N. Golder and Hans-Willi Schroiff) Recalls of Innovative Products and Firm Market Value and Firm Stock Risk (Ismail Erzurumlu and Nukhet Harmancioglu) Crypto Currency Confidence (Martin Fritze, Dave Reibstein, John Zhang, and Cait Lamberton) |
| 17.00 – 17.30 | Conference Closing (Room: Dreikönigssaal) | |