 | The Institute for the Study of Business Markets (ISBM) has taken off in Europe. ISBM is a center of excellence in the Smeal College of Business Administration at Penn State. We are networked with researchers, educators and practitioners in business-to-business marketing in companies and universities throughout the world.
Professor H.O. (Horst) Bender is appointed as dean of the Institute for the Study of Business Markets (ISBM) Europe. Horst Bender is Professor of Global Business Enterprise at the University of Twente (NL).
His industry line experience includes positions as U.S. national sales manager, application services manager and new product development manager at BASF. He gained staff experience as senior market research fellow at DuPont. His teaching and project experience encompasses the B2B and high-tech sectors, including the automotive, banking, chemical, computer, defense, energy, engineering, sensors, services, telecommunications, machine tools, oil, paper, plastics, space, and steel industries. Horst teaches and consults for major companies and institutes.
Horst holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University. His dissertation, which won the 1983 dissertation competition of the American Marketing Association, propagated pioneering ideas on value creation and supply chain integration, many of which are now being realized in B2B e-commerce and supply chain integration.
Orange Orca is partner of ISBM Europe. |