Essays on Staffing and Transportation
On Monday 27 May 2024 Christian Braathen will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
PhD Candidate Christian Braathen
- Christian.Braathen@nhh.no
- Telephone
- +47 55 95 99 22
- Department
- Business and Management Science
- Centre
- Shipping and Logistics FAIR Digital Transformation Hub
- Office
- C408
- Expertise
- Optimization Predictive Analytics Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Christian Braathen is a PhD Research Scholar at NHH, receiving both his BSc and his MSc from NHH as well. His research interests include improving people's well-being with optimization models. He is also interested in innovation and entrepreneurship.
He is part of the research centers FAIR, Center for Shipping and Logistics, and the Digital Transformation Hub.
Christian also gives talks on digitalization, optimization, and innovation.
Dissemination
Artificial intelligence? We need to talk about data quality
Christian Braathen: Artificial intelligence is the solution to the lack of labor - if data quality is addressed. Organizations must prioritize data quality, be less concerned with "big data" and more concerned with good data.
Psychological safety essential for entrepreneurs
Christian Braathen: Entrepreneurs often need financing to avoid having an additional job, outside the start-up company. On the other hand, investors demand that entrepreneurs work only with the start-up company before they finance.
Foundership is a practice in mental self-torture
Christian Braathen: Foundership contributes to extrem personal growth, but there is a dark side of the picture.
Job number one is to make better use of our resources
Christian Braathen: Even though conversion and green shift is important, it is not enough. We also have to make better use of today's resources.
We researchers have to be more open
Christian Braathen: In order for leaders to be able to be more critical to analysis, also researchers will have to change their way of working.
Let out the employees
Christian Braathen: Why do companies easily outsource a string of tasks out of town, while they still force their own employees to be in their offices every day?
A million in funding awarded to PhD candidate and entrepreneur
Through the company Mycroft, PhD candidate Christian Braathen makes it easier to create good work schedules. He is now set to receive NOK 1 million from the Research Council of Norway.
Leaders glorify self-driven employees
Christian Braathen: So-called internally motivated employees perform best - when they are motivated. What happens when they are not motivated?