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Happy Easter and Spring Break from ISTO before the Summer Term starts

15 Apr 2025

ISTO wishes you a refreshing spring break! We’re back soon with exciting courses & fresh research across all programs. Check out what’s new!

The ISTO team wishes everyone a relaxing and refreshing Easter holiday and a wonderful spring break before the new lecture period of the summer term kicks off!

While campus has been a bit quieter during the semester break, we have been busy behind the scenes - pushing forward our research projects, supervising final theses, and crafting an exciting and diverse teaching portfolio for the upcoming term.

Here’s an overview of what’s coming up:

For our Bachelor students, we’re bringing back some of our most popular electives:

  • Management & Economics of Platforms (Lectures & Tutorials).
  • Competition & Strategy (Lectures).
  • Technology & Strategy (Lectures).
  • Plus, a hands-on seminar: Building Theory for Innovation & Strategy Research.
  • Online vhb course on Digital Markets & Platforms.

Master students can once again join our interactive Project Course, where they’ll work in teams to tackle real-world challenges presented by our industry partners. Curious about this year’s partner companies and cases? Stay tuned - we’ll reveal them soon!

Doctoral students in the MBR program can look forward to two exciting offers:

  • A reading course on Current Topics in Platform Research, combining foundational texts with cutting-edge publications and proposal development.
  • A Data Science with DataCamp course to sharpen their analytical skills and expand their methodological toolkit.

Do you want to know more about our courses? Please visit our course page.

We are looking forward to an inspiring and energetic summer term - and hope to see many of you in our courses or around campus!