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Background
06/16/21

Social change reaches the law

A contemporary witness reports how she experienced the family law reform of 1988. Her story demonstrates that the act did not trigger off social change but instead took into account the social change that preceded it. By Kim Bauer.
Publications
06/15/21

Continuity throughout a changing landscape – Swiss magazine "Die Unternehmung" turns 75

How does business administration contribute to new knowledge? How should it do so in the future? After 75 years of new scientific findings, "Die Unternehmung", the oldest Swiss business administration journal, dedicates its anniversary issue to these questions and focuses on management at the HSG.
Background
06/14/21

Would elections by lot make Lady Justice blinder?

How judges at the Federal Supreme Court are elected has so far primarily depended on their party membership and personal networks. The Justice Initiative would like to change this and introduce an election by lot. In doing so, it refers to issues connected with the highest judges’ independence. An article by Laura Rufer.
Opinions
06/11/21

Concerns about the appreciation of care work still remain

After the women's strike on June 14, 2019, there were calls for the largely female care work in this country to be recognized as valuable work. But after one and a half years of life in times of Corona, the current situation gives little cause for euphoria. An opinion piece by Christa Binswanger.
Campus
06/10/21

Open Innovation Days - inspiration for new learning and teaching

The building of the HSG Learning Center is taking more shape day by day. To develop the spirit which should characterise the innovative place of learning after its inauguration, the Open Innovation Days were staged from 1-9 June. Students, faculty members, alumni and alumnæ, members of staff and practitioners talked to each other in order to make the Learning Center tangible, experienceable and palpable.
Research
06/10/21

HSG study investigates purchasing behaviour during the pandemic

How has Covid-19 changed our purchasing behaviour? How much do we spend on goods every year online and offline? These questions are answered with regard to Germany, Austria and Switzerland by a new study entitled “Omni-Channel Management 2021”.

Background
06/09/21

“Happiness is the opposite of bad luck”

In the middle of this mad time, I wondered what happiness actually means for those we never ask about it: children. This is why I decided to interview them myself. The result was amusing and sometimes profound answers to questions which even adults do not find all that easy to answer. An article by Charlotte Hirsbrunner.
Research
06/08/21

The St.Gallen Aviation and Space Symposium

Organised by Andreas Wittmer and the Center for Aviation Competence at HSG, the digital seminar focused primarily on recovering from the Covid crisis.
Campus
06/08/21

ECOL: Top business schools launch European network for online learning

Together with seven other leading European business schools, the University of St.Gallen has founded the network "European Common Online Learning". The aim of the cooperation is to offer students from all participating universities new, high-calibre and internationally staffed online courses.
Background
06/08/21

NFTs on the art market – mirage or masterpiece?

They can be disseminated at random, and yet there is only a single digital one-off: Leandro Neff on the increasing significance of non-fungible tokens (NFT) on the art market.
Background
06/04/21

The shop is dead – long live the shop!

Somehow everyone suffers from corona, but not in the same way. Stationary shops in particular, were hard hit since they had to close their doors twice. People’s delight when they could reopen was that much greater. There were queues like when cars are thronging south through the Gotthard tunnel at peak times. Many consumers might well think this an incongruity since the physical retail trade is often said to be doomed. But is this really true? Or has corona only provided it with a short breather? Student Manuel Frommelt talked about this to Kristina Kleinlercher.
Background
06/02/21

From the corona crisis into the mafia crisis?

The Covid pandemic enables the Italian mafia organisation ‘Ndrangheta to establish itself elsewhere, for instance in the Swiss economic system. What are the reasons for and mechanisms of this development? An article by Adina Trinca.