Does marketing reflect religion or does religion reflect marketing?
By Dr Tom van Laer This week, my colleagues and I hosted Dr Elif Izberk-Bilgin of the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Elif has written some influential papers on consumer activism, or [...]
The creativity challenge
By Dr Vlad Glavenau We live in an age of contradictory messages regarding creativity. On the one hand, (Western) society as a whole is promoting, through education and media, a [...]
The Importance of a Social Approach to Data Analysis to Maximise Value
By Judy Bayer and Dr Marie Taillard Dr. Marie Taillard, Director of the Creativity Marketing Centre at ESCP Business School, and Judy Bayer, Director Strategic Analytics for Teradata International, recently published [...]
Harnessing consumer creativity: a difficult but rewarding task
By Dr Ben Voyer, Associate Professor at ESCP Business School At the CMC, we think that consumer creativity accounts for a lot of the (perceived) value that consumers experience in [...]
The challenge to remain relevant
By Laura Hayes, MMK Student A series of recent events, aptly entitled the 'Swap Shop' series, gave my fellow MSc in Marketing and Creativity students and I a chance to [...]
Creativity and its box
By Dr Vlad Glaveanu It is exasperatingly common to hear the 'thinking outside the box' remark in relation to creativity. This is so not because challenging 'boxed' thinking is not [...]
Being creative in marketing research: the rise of modern technologies
By Dr Ben Voyer, Associate Professor at ESCP Business School Has the good old questionnaire had its days? Research is increasingly relying on new technologies to improve our understanding of [...]
Are retail stores dinosaurs?
By Dr Minas Kastanakis, Associate Professor at ESCP Business School This week, my colleagues and I hosted the Distinguished Chair of Business Administration, Professor of Marketing Charles Ingene of School [...]
Kristine de Valck, dry chicken, and paintball
By Dr Tom van Laer This week, my colleagues and I host associate professor Kristine de Valck of HEC Paris, France. Kristine has a long-lasting relationship with ESCP Business School. [...]
Getting to grips with Big Data and how to extract value from it
By Dr Marie Taillard, CMC Director In the morning-after analyses following the 2012 US Presidential elections, most pundits agreed on one particular point that had gone very right for the [...]
Lego bricks; a product that would not exist without individual creativity
By Alkimini Gritzali In the modern marketing theory, all products are considered as services, co-created by the producer and the consumer (Prahalad & Ramaswamy, 2004; Vargo & Lusch, 2004). [...]
Shakespeare was wrong
By Peter Stephenson - Wright, Affiliate Professor at ESCP Business School Once upon a time, brands were only something that manufacturers created to try to capture the finest qualities of [...]
The Vicious Spiral of Consumer Expectations of Creative Brands
By Dr Ben Voyer, Associate Professor at ESCP Business School When people see a brand as a creative one, they expect any of its moves (e.g. new product launch, TV ad, etc.) [...]
Street Art: Creativity, (Counter)ideology, and Sustainability
By Dr Luca Visconti Over the last decade street art creativity has entered various domains of consumer life, such as public space (e.g., the apartheid wall in Palestine, JR's 'Women are Heroes' [...]
How can cyber harassment in social media be stopped?
By Dr Tom van Laer In the past ten years, social media have revolutionized the way people communicate. Each day, 483 million users log on to Facebook. Each minute, 72 [...]
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