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Should you tell customers how long they’ll be queuing for this holiday season?
December 2, 2022 | ESMT Press
New research from ESMT Berlin finds that companies should partially hide information on how long the queue is if their products are highly popular and valuable. By doing that, researchers say, companies are likely to generate more customers in the queue. However, if a product is of low-demand and of low-value, the researchers suggest that companies should avoid hiding this information, as it is likely to have the opposite effect.
"Artenschutz durch neues Wirtschaften"
November 29, 2022 | tagesschau
Tagesschau reports on the signing of the "Frankfurt Declaration" by an alliance of German science and non-governmental organizations and quotes Jörg Rocholl, President of ESMT Belin, who claims that the loss of biodiversity has underestimated consequences compared to climate change.
Frankfurt Declaration: Together for Biological Diversity
November 29, 2022 | ESMT Press
One week before the start of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) in Montreal, an alliance of German science and non-governmental organizations calls for an end to economic activity against nature in its “Frankfurt Declaration,” which was published today.
"Kann Sicherheit einfach beschlossen werden?"
November 26, 2022 | Golem
Nils Brinker, a researcher at the Digital Society Institute at ESMT Berlin, writes an article for Golem, where he discussed the NIS-2 Directive and its implications for IT security.
"Von Worten zu Taten – Der lange Weg zu Cybernormen"
November 23, 2022 | Tagesspiegel Background
UN negotiations on establishing rules of conduct in cyberspace have often threatened to fail. Yet they are elementary for the community of nations in cyberspace, says Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, director of the Digital Society Institute at ESMT.