University of Hamburg Awarded the 2023 WRDS-SSRN Innovation Prize for Commitment to Academic Research

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) and SSRN are pleased to announce University of Hamburg – Faculty of Business, Economics, and Social Sciences as the winner of the WRDS-SSRN Innovation Award for the EMEA region. The Innovation Award series elevates the visibility of impact-focused research and the rising business schools that conduct it.

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Victoria Kent announces University of Hamburg - Faculty of Business, Economics, and Social Sciences as winner of the 2023 WRDS-SSRN Innovation Award. (Photo: Business Wire)

Victoria Kent, WRDS Director of international initiatives, presented the award during the AACSB EMEA Annual conference. Dr. Cord Jakobeit, Dean, University of Hamburg – Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences accepted the award via video. A part of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, WRDS advances comprehensive thought leadership and elevates the level of academic research to drive societal impact. As the world becomes more connected and the impact of policy reaches across borders, equity and access become more essential to research.

“I am delighted to offer my congratulations to University of Hamburg – Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences,” said Robert Zarazowski, Managing Director, WRDS. “We are always excited to celebrate the exceptional research being conducted at business schools, and University of Hamburg truly deserves this recognition.”

“As the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, we feel very honored and privileged to have won the Wharton Research Data Services-SSRN Innovation Award for the European region in 2023,” said Dr. Cord Jakobeit, Dean, University of Hamburg. “This came as a very pleasant surprise, for which we are immensely grateful. I am also happy to say that our faculty has been holding a WRDS-license for the last eight years and that we were among the first universities in Germany to do so. User frequency has constantly risen. My colleagues and our young researchers are all smiles about the availability and user friendliness of this important platform for the analysis of company and finance databases. This is an ever more important prerequisite for ambitious research.”

“University of Hamburg–Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences has a very long history of producing high quality research and we are happy to recognize their program with the WRDS-SSRN Innovation Award,” said Gregg Gordon, Managing Director, SSRN.

WRDS and SSRN’s collaboration advances impact-focused research, changing policy and practice at national and global levels.

About WRDS

For 25+ years, Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) has supported users with targeted solutions that underpin research, reinforce learning, and enable discovery. WRDS advances comprehensive thought leadership for 500+ institutions across 38+ countries—democratizing data access and giving users the power to analyze complex information through curated Classroom Teaching guides, Video Learning Pathways, Analytics/Linking tools, and Research Applications. WRDS resources map to Accreditation Standards, impacting an institution’s trajectory from learning and discovery to research and publication. www.whartonwrds.com

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About SSRN

SSRN is an open-access online preprint community providing valuable services to leading academic schools and government institutions. Specializing primarily in social sciences, including economics, law, corporate governance, and humanities, SSRN has grown to become the most interdisciplinary service of its kind. Representing disciplines across the full research spectrum, including the applied sciences, health sciences, humanities, life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences, SSRN provides opportunities for scholars to post their early research, collaborate on theories and discoveries, and get credit for their ideas before peer reviewed publication.

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