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ITEM Annual Conference 2023
… towards a sustainable and liveable society across the border' The next ITEM Annual Conference will take place in cooperation with Province of Zuid Holland and Kings Commissioner Jaap Smit, on Friday 17 November 2023 in The Hague. Visit the ITEM website for more information Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Faculty of Law Maastricht Graduate School of Governance School of Business and Economics Den Haag Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility / ITEM More information on the ITEM website Yes, I want to join REGISTER HERE … Infrastructure and mobility: 'Strong connections with neighbouring countries towards a sustainable and liveable society across the border' The next ITEM Annual Conference will take place in cooperation with Province of Zuid Holland and Kings Commissioner Jaap Smit, on Friday 17 November 2023 in The Hague. Visit the ITEM website for more information … Infrastructure and mobility: 'Strong connections with neighbouring countries towards a sustainable and liveable society across the border' The next ITEM Annual Conference will take place in cooperation with Province of …
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Introduction Days for Exchange Students | School of Business and Economics
… 31 aug 01 sep 10:00 - 16:30 Zoekresultaten The Maastricht University School of Business and Economics would like to welcome all incoming exchange students starting in September 2022 during the compulsory introduction days on Thursday 1 and Friday 2 September 2022. Introduction Days Throughout the Introduction Days, you'll have the opportunity to get to know Maastricht University and the School of Business … and be a part of our online community? Then do not forget to follow our social media channels. Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn … The Maastricht University School of Business and Economics would like to welcome all incoming exchange students starting in September 2022 during the compulsory introduction days on Thursday 1 and Friday 2 September 2022. … Introduction days for all exchange students who are starting their studies in September 2022 at the School of Business and Economics. … Introduction Days for Exchange Students | School of Business and Economics …
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… I had previously taken for granted, suddenly disappeared. I found myself back at home, feeling kind of useless, until I realised that I could become active and make an actual impact from my desk while in quarantine back at my parents’ home. This month SBE’s social theme was Entrepreneurship and I experienced first-hand a start-up like non-profit-organisation, learning how much volunteer work can have in common with starting a business. In this article, I am going to discuss my recently gained experience with digital volunteer work, how you can become active yourself and … gaining practical experience in a time when internships and the like are cancelled across the board due to the ongoing pandemic. If you have any questions or want to become active yourself, feel free to contact me on my personal LinkedIn or visit our website. … As a student at Maastricht University’s School of Business and Economics, I am used to living in an international environment and constantly having opportunities to educate myself further by joining associations, initiatives and many …
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… Paul addressed rumours that the Netherlands will put restrictions on the internationalisation of universities, making it clear that Maastricht University will continue on its chosen path of an international and European profile. As one of the first faculties to introduce English courses and exchange programmes in the 1990s, Maastricht University’s School of Business and Economics (SBE) has long been an advocate for internationalisation. One of the academics that has lead the way for SBE on its journey towards internationalisation is Professor Tom van Veen. We reached out to Tom to find out how SBE became the international … input from students.’ In Spring 1984, the first professors arrived at the faculty with the first student arriving a couple months later. At this point, all classes and programmes were in Dutch and the curriculum was Dutch-centric; however, this started to change by the early 1990s. Door: Kendra Valck (text); Michel Saive (photos) , School of Business and Economics Tom van Veen is a Professor of Economics at the School of Business and Economics (SBE). He also served as the Dean …
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De organisatie van dit jaarlijks terugkerend congres is in handen van Fagro, Rabobank, Maastricht University en Zuyd Hogeschool. Middels het organiseren van dit congres wil de organisatie een bijdrage leveren aan het behouden en aantrekken van finance professionals in de provincie Limburg.
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… on microfinance, together with one of my PhD students. In attendance at the conference was a nice mix of academics and practitioners. Our paper, presented by my PhD student, was about what has become known as ‘mission drift’: what happens when firms start to drift away from their original mission? Mission drift is especially interesting in markets where for-profit and not-for-profit firms compete, like healthcare, education … and microfinance. Why? Because in that case, mission drift can happen in two directions: from a pure for-profit start to a more mixed mission, and from a pure not-for-profit start towards the same middle. School of Business and Economics J.W.B. Bos Professor of Banking and Finance Finance, School of Business and Economics From a societal perspective, mission drift does not have to be bad. One of the key aspects is what …
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… 2 mei 2023 Zoekresultaten Waarom doen mensen wat ze doen? Om deze complexe vraag te beantwoorden moet Hannes Rusch van alles een beetje zijn: econoom, bioloog, filosoof, wiskundige. Hij kreeg onlangs een ERC Starting Grant van 1,5 miljoen euro om een interdisciplinair theoretisch kader voor de beschrijving van uitbuiting in arbeidsrelaties te ontwikkelen en dit empirisch te toetsen. Het doel is om te komen tot beleidsmaatregelen die de drijfveren voor … heeft om het minder schadelijke alternatief te kiezen." … Waarom doen mensen wat ze doen? Om deze complexe vraag te beantwoorden moet Hannes Rusch van alles een beetje zijn: econoom, bioloog, filosoof, wiskundige. Hij kreeg onlangs een ERC Starting Grant van 1,5 miljoen euro om een interdisciplinair theoretisch kader voor de beschrijving van uitbuiting in arbeidsrelaties te ontwikkelen en dit empirisch te toetsen. Het doel is om te komen tot beleidsmaatregelen die de drijfveren voor uitbuiting wegnemen. … Waarom doen mensen wat ze doen? Om deze complexe vraag te beantwoorden moet Hannes Rusch van alles een beetje zijn: econoom, bioloog, filosoof, wiskundige. Hij kreeg onlangs een ERC Starting Grant van 1,5 miljoen euro om een interdisciplinair theoretisch kader voor de beschrijving van uitbuitingsrelaties te ontwikkelen en dit empirisch te toetsen. … “Uitbuiting komt overal voor” …
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… 15 april 2024 Zoekresultaten What if students could use play to learn to think strategically, apply economic concepts and deal with complex problems? This is what we have started exploring in the first of a series of three pilots of the Maastricht Immersive Learning Lab. What is the MILL? The MILL is: Maastricht: a joint initiative from different departments of SBE (MILE, ERD, Finance, MSI), with support from MORSE, to use serious games as a learning tool. Immersive : Learners are immersed and trained and make decisions in a real time environment to increase/enforce engagement in learning. Learning : The … technological ...) and will force the participants to strategize and anticipate new ways of thinking and acting regarding uncertainty about such shocks and scenarios. More information about the MILL and its developments are shared on the MILL webpage . In what follows we describe why we believe that serious games should be added to the portfolio of learning tools available to educators at UM and beyond, how we have implemented it so far and how it has been received by students of Pilot 1, …
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… came from OpenAI. First with DALL·E 2, an AI system that can create realistic images and art based on a given text, and more recently with ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a language model designed to generate human-like text responses to prompts. We asked SBE researchers Jermain Kaminski, Emir Efendić, and Marc Becker to share their thoughts on how AI systems, like those of OpenAI, are impacting the labour market. Emir Efendić AI's impact on the Labour Market To Emir Efendić, Assistant Professor at SBE, it seems too early to tell just how AI is impacting the labour market. "The AI systems can produce content, but it is unclear to what extent they can manage existing content or generate new content. The way we work will certainly change, but whether work itself will change? I’m less inclined to say. As with all new things, it remains to be seen," he adds. Jermain Kaminski, Assistant Professor at SBE, seems to agree with Emir's sentiment on new content: "New and original thoughts will still require human touch for some time to come. In fact, I would expect ‘written by a human’ to become a differentiating label in a world where …
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… wealthy go for the long-term, higher reward. The conclusion was then made that being financially constrained leads to short-sighted financial decisions. However, what if that conclusion isn't as sound as we thought before? That is the question that SBE researchers Anouk Festjens , Kimberley van der Heijden , Caroline Goukens and NYU researcher Tom Meyvishave have raised with their studies. A guaranteed immediate payout reduces impatience Anouk Festjens and her colleagues tested the common … that financial decision-making is not a fixed mindset but a mechanism that can be affected depending on environmental factors. These findings provide a solid basis for further research in this field. The research team behind this article consists of SBE researchers Kimberley van der Heijden, Anouk Festjens and Caroline Goukens as well as Tom Meyvis from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business. If you wish to read the full article, you can do so here . Nima Hassanloo School of Business and Economics Interested to find out more? Anouk Festjens will do a deep-dive on this topic during a seminar on 31 March. Find out more ! … SBE researchers Kimberley van der Heijden, Anouk Festjens, Caroline Goukens and NYU researcher Tom Meyvis recently published their findings on how individuals experiencing financial pressure make decisions. These findings challenge the traditional …