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In his dissertation ‘Exploratory Studies into Strategies to Enhance Innovation-Driven International Competitiveness in a Port Context: Toward Ambidextrous Ports’, ERIM’s Rick Hollen explores how efficiency-dominated ports in economically advanced countries can become more ambidextrous and, in turn, strengthen their innovation-driven international competitiveness.

In his dissertation ‘Innovating beyond technology: Studies on how management innovation, co-creation and business model innovation contribute to firms’ (innovation) performance’, ERIM’s Cornelis Heij examines how and under which conditions several types of non-technological innovation contribute to overall firm performance.

In his dissertation ‘Leveraging the International Context: Essays on Building Offshoring Capabilities and Enhancing Firm Innovation’ ERIM’s Mashiho Mihalache explores how firms can take advantage of the opportunities available in the international environment.

In his dissertation ‘Corporate Governance During Market Transition: Heterogeneous responses to institutional tensions in China’, ERIM’s Pierre-Olivier Tremblay explores the barriers to successful corporate governance in transition economies.

In his dissertation ‘Supply Chain Contracting for After-sales Service and Product Support’ ERIM’s Dong Li studies several nontrivial service contracting problems concerning optimal design of contract terms, spare parts inventory and service capacity management, and service outsourcing control.

In her dissertation ‘Structuring Warehouse Management: Exploring the fit between warehouse characteristics and warehouse planning and control structure, and its effect on warehouse performance’, ERIM’s Nynke Faber studies the management processes that plan, control, and optimize warehouse operations.

Professionals in technical and methodology-oriented data science and business analytics will learn how to conquer leadership challenges with big data during a new executive education programme by Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and Erasmus School of Economics. Participants will learn to understand data techniques they can instantly apply in order to achieve business objectives.

In the minor course, "Innovation and Marketing" (FEB53112M), students will apply the concepts and frameworks from the course to an actual business project for UNICEF. Students will work as external consultants to help this partner develop a new business idea. They will have exclusive access to some representatives from this organization. During the business project, students are asked to develop new ideas and to present your approaches to a board of representatives from the organization. They will be assigned to teams and will compete with the other teams for coming up with a "winning" solution to the problem. The winning team will receive the ECMI Marketing and Innovation Minor Champion 2015 trophy and a certificate.