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ETH medals for outstanding doctoral theses
ETH Rector Sarah Springman has awarded three D-MTEC researchers the prestigious ETH Medal for their outstanding doctoral theses. Congratulations to the award winners!
D-MTEC Media Update – Biased job recruitment
The D-MTEC experts engage with issues that affect society, the economy and business. The D-MTEC Media Update provides links to recent articles, interviews and commentaries. Researchers at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute have leveraged big data from recruitment platforms and machine learning to study hiring discrimination. They show that a foreign origin negatively impacts the chance of jobseekers to be contacted on job platforms.
D-MTEC Media Update – Home office calls for self-control
The D-MTEC experts engage with issues that affect society, the economy and business. The D-MTEC Media Update provides links to recent articles, interviews and commentaries. Self-control is decisive for how well you can work form home, says Petra Schmid, Professor of Organizational Behavior. To this end you need to find out what is good for you and adjust your working environment accordingly.
D-MTEC Media Update – School closures among most effective anti-covid measures
The D-MTEC experts engage with issues that affect society, the economy and business. The D-MTEC Media Update provides links to recent articles, interviews and commentaries. Joel Persson, Jurriaan F. Parie and Stefan Feuerriegel from the Chair of Management and Information Systems find that the mid-March school closures in Switzerland reduced mobility by over 20% and consequently curbed coronavirus transmission.