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| ARCA Seminar Therese Grohnert - 11 February |
Therese Grohnert (Maastricht University) will present her paper (co-authored with Roger Meeuwissen, Wim Gijselaers, and Ken Trotman) titled: “Fostering Auditors’ Professional Skepticism through a Supportive Firm Learning Culture - a Knowledge Development Approach”.
This seminar will take place on Monday, February 11 from 12.00 to 14.00 in 8A-44 VU main building.
To register for the ARCA seminar, please send an email to: l.m.abinta@vu.nl
For more information please click here. |
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| Post-Growth Entrepreneurship Workshop - 11 February |
Amsterdam Business School (VU + UvA) Present: Business can be the most effective form of activism. Business can be the most expressive form of art. But we have never been taught to think about it in this way.
Join Dr. Melanie Rieback , CEO of Radically Open Security and Nonprofit Ventures to learn about a new form of social entrepreneurship called “Post-Growth Entrepreneurship”.
To register please visit: https://www.entrepreneurshipaspractice.com/post-growth-ent or register via email with Dr. Neil Thompson (n.a.thompson@vu.nl)
For the flyer with the full programme please click here. |
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| Frans Feldberg gives 'TEDx Talk' about the influence of A.I. |
What role does Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) play in reducing the effects of cancer? And what role does artificial intelligence play on reducing greenhouse gases? Prof. Frans Feldberg (School of Business and Economics) answers these questions in his recently published Tedx Talk.
The TedxTalk was incorporated in Alkmaar at the end of January and carried the theme: 'Design our Future'. A topic that fits well with Feldberg's research that focuses on designing a more sustainable future through data-driven innovation. |
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In his presentation, Feldberg delves deeper into the economy behind artificial intelligence. "The 'economics or A.I' is permeated in our daily lives. For example, by cleverly combining data from washing machines, solar panels and weather forecasts, you can solve a major problem in the energy transition, namely; the storage of energy. Students have calculated that this solution can play a significant role in the climate agreement concluded in Paris to reduce CO2 emissions by five percent, "says Feldberg.
Feldberg states in his Tedx Talk also states that artificial intelligence is certainly not the 'holy grail'. "A.I. brings new challenges in terms of privacy, ethics and cyber security. "With his TEDx talk, he especially wants to make an appeal to actively participate in the discussion on how we can use artificial intelligence in a responsible manner.
Take a look at the Tedx Talk from Frans Feldberg on YouTube. |
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| Nienke Hofstra successfully defended her thesis |
On 31 January Nienke Hofstra successfully defended her thesis "Individual decisionmaking in operations: A behavioral perspective".
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| Nienke Hofstra (1990) obtained her BSc and MSc degrees in Business Administration, with specialization in Transport & Supply Chain Management, at the School of Business and Economics at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (in 2012 and 2013, resp.). In 2013, she joined the ABRI Junior Researcher Program and in 2014, she started the Ph.D. program at the School of Business and Economics. During her PhD, Nienke received the Best Paper Award at the Vervoerslogistieke Werkdagen 2015 in Breda (the Netherlands). Her work has been accepted for publication in a variety of international peer-reviewed journals. She currently works as a researcher and lecturer at the Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen and KennisDC Logistiek Gelderland. |
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