College of Management of Technology

New Results on the Design and Pricing of “Smart Products” in JMIS

Published:19.11.20 — The current issue of the Journal of Management Information Systems, an FT50 top journal, features Prof. Weber’s latest research on collaborative consumption. In the article “How to Market Smart Products: Design and Pricing for Sharing Markets,” he outlines strategies for product design, aftermarket control through sensing, and flexible nonlinear pricing for smart products. This work is the fourth in a series of results on the sharing economy published in JMIS since 2014. The paper further details how product intelligence can help companies generate economic value and how they can extract an optimal portion of that value from heterogeneous consumers.

Michael Mark Wins INFORMS Best Student Paper Competition

Published:12.11.20 — At the 2020 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Michael Mark, a PhD Student at the Chair of Operations, Economics and Strategy, was invited to the finals of the Best Student Paper Award in Finance. With the presentation of his paper, “A Reinforcement-Learning Approach to Credit Collections,” he impressed a jury composed of industry experts and faculty, emerging as the only winner in the strong field of this year’s competition. A honorable mention went to Rohit Arora, a PhD student at McCombs School of Business (University of Texas, Austin).

The new Vice Presidency for Academic Affairs (VPA)

Published:12.11.20 — — Updated on 11 November 2020 — EPFL’s president reaffirmed the importance of EPFL’s academic mission by creating the Vice Presidency for Academic Affairs (VPA), which will be led by Jan S. Hesthaven. Following the appointment of Luisa Lambertini, the VPA management team is now complete.

The impact of the COVID-19 shock on the Swiss labor market

Published:10.11.20 — Prof. Luisa Lambertini, Dr. Corinne Dubois and Yu Wu have launched a study determining how the COVID-19 crisis affected working men and women in Switzerland.