As part of the Human Resources Management lecture, Dr. Pia Lünstrot and Nina Grochowitzki, both partners of HKP group, were invited to TU Darmstadt to speak about the topic of compensation. After briefly introducing themselves, they continue by presenting HKP’s working areas.

A joint research of the chair of Marketing and Human Resource Management, Prof. Dr. Dr. Stock-Homburg, Department of Law and Economics, Institute for Business Administration and the chair of Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Prof. Dr. Peters, Computer Science Department addresses the dynamics of Human-Robot Interaction.

At the beginning of the year, Prof. Dr. Dr. Stock-Homburg enabled three of our colleagues to present their research at the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS). Our papers emerged from the research areas of user innovation, robot-human interaction, team performance, and communication.

Dr. Hanno Meier, Principal and Member of the Management Board of CBC, and Karoline Suss, Senior Manager of CBC, were invited to TU Darmstadt to share guiding principles of leadership within the context of the Leadership lecture. They start by presenting their working area.

A special thank you to our research partners Eric von Hippel, Shannon Heald and Dr. Alexander Haas who support us with their knowledge and time in discussions. Christian Holthaus is another person who always assists us with words and deeds, thank you very much…

Korey Elele and Alexander Pötzsch from Hessischer Rundfunk visited the leap in time GmbH and took a closer look at our humanoid robot Lena…

We are proud to announce that our research paper “Good Robot, Bad Robot: Customer Responses to Norm-Compliant and Norm-Violating Service Robots” has received the “Best Paper Award”…

Our andoid robot, Elenoide, worked for eight weeks with several groups on a project for innovative products in the research laboratory of leap in time GmbH. This project work took place in cooperation with Dietmar Eidens and Karsten Hofrichter from Merck Group. The project teams integrated Elenoide into their team. They discussed the tasks with her and dealt with Elenoide's solution approaches. They also involved Elenoide in leisure discussions during the breaks.

We are now looking for a HiWi for technical support…

A new practice article co-authored by Prof. Stock-Homburg on robots in organizational teams was published in the German journal PERSONALFÜHRUNG.

The topic of our WS 2022/23 semester has been decided. It will be about Digital & Sustainable Marketing. Social media experts and influencers will accompany us in this seminar. The paper can be written in English as well as in German. Both Bachelor and Master students are welcome. You can find more information on the flyer:

We are looking for additional student assistants to join our team.

Please note that our chair is on a Holiday & Research Break between December 20, 2021 and January 14, 2022. During this time responses might be delayed. We wish you and your families happy holidays and a happy new year.

Detailed information on viewing of examination scripts at our chair for students who have written exams in the WiSe 2019/20, SoSe 2020 and/or WiSe 2020/21. Please continue reading for more information.

leap in time is looking for students and office workers who can support us with the testing of innovative technologies in the leap in time Lab in Darmstadt.

Currently, the Faculty of Law and Economics does not offer exam insights in attendance. If the incidence of infection permits, a gradual opening and exam insights are planned from January onwards, first for selected groups (5.0) and then for all students. This regulation applies to all exams at our department. This year, we will also no longer be able to offer digital exam insights.

3sat makro episode on 20. October 2020 on “Kollege Roboter”

Due to Covid-19, we are only offering digital lectures in the winter term. You can find detailed information here . We are still offering thesis at our chair that are supervised digitally. Please find current open theses here .