Description
How does scheduling autonomy affect performance on creative and routine tasks? This webinar outlines the objectives of the new PILOT group which seeks to analyze ways workers schedule time for creativity.
Contributors
Heidi Bertels - Assistant Professor of Management, Chazanoff School of Business, College of Staten Island/CUNY
Alexander Brem - Chaired Professor of Management, Daimler Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Alexander Brem is Endowed Chaired Professor and Institute Director at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He is a CCSR International Research Associate at DeMontfort University (UK) and a visiting professor at the EADA Business School in Barcelona (Spain) and HHL Graduate School of Management (Germany). Recently in May 2017, Alexander Brem has been appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Southern Denmark and IEEE Senior Member. His latest achievement was the 2019 Best Paper Award „Innovation Management“ from EBS University, Germany. His research focus is on technological innovation and entrepreneurship. This includes research fields like Idea Management, Constraint-based Innovation, User Innovation as well as Technology Entrepreneurship. Professor Brem serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), as well as Associate Editor for Technological Forecasting and Social Change (TFSC), IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (IEEE TEM) and the Journal of Business Research (JBR). Moreover, he is editorial board member at several journals like Academy of Management Perspectives or Business Horizons.
Dan Zhang - Associate Professor of Marketing, College of Staten Island/CUNY
Dr. Dan Zhang is Associate Professor of Marketing at the City University of New York (CUNY) - College of Staten Island. She earned her Ph.D. in Business Administration from Temple University, U.S. Her current research interests include product development and innovation, transnational product design, psychology of aesthetics and expertise, consumer judgment and decision making, and branding. Dr. Zhang has published in Creativity and Innovation Management, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Consumer Marketing, Journal of International Consumer Marketing, Journal of Global Fashion Marketing, and Advances in International Marketing. She is the winner of the Christer Karlsson Best Paper Runner-Up at the 21st International Product Development Management Conference and received the 2017 President’s Dolphin Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Member of the Full-Time Faculty at CUNY- College of Staten Island. She has successfully coached student teams to win the 2nd Prize of American Marketing Association (AMA) Mary Kay Case Competition at the 40th AMA International Collegiate Conference and the 3rd Prize of AMA eBay Case Competition at the 39th AMA International Collegiate Conference. She has presented papers in international and national conferences, such as Academy of Management Meeting, AMA Summer Marketing Educators Conference, Association for Consumer Research Annual Conference, Innovation and Product Development Management Conference, International Conference on Design Principles & Practices, and Product Development Management Association Research Forum.