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Arnd Graf von Westarp studied business mathematics from 2000 to 2006 and graduated with a bachelor's degree. From 2007 he worked in the Business Development Department of the shipping company Hamburg Süd. To apply theoretical principles more effectively in practice, he studied at the HSBA ÎçÒ¹AV in 2012/2013 and graduated with an MBA in Shipping. In the following years, he worked as a lecturer at HSBA, FOM - Hochschule für Oekonomie und Management, IU and HAW - Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg in the Master's and Bachelor's programmes. In 2015, he began his doctorate at the University of Regensburg and completed his dissertation in 2021 with Summa cum Laude. On 1st January 2022, he was appointed a professor at the ÎçÒ¹AV.  

Arnd Graf von Westarp will give his inaugural lecture on the topic: Sherlock Holmes and the search for the happiness of all nations.

What is the connection between Sherlock Holmes and the question of the happiness of different nations? And how can we find out what makes people happy or what they need to be happy?  

Prof. Dr. Arnd Graf von Westarp explores these questions in his inaugural lecture. Based on Sherlock Holmes’ detective stories, he examines the deductive approach to solving criminal cases and contrasts it with the inductive approach used in the application of Big Data analysis. Deductive meaning that one draws conclusions from assumptions with the help of logic; inductive meaning that one recognises a larger context from several individual observations.  

Arnd Graf von Westarp thus shows how crime cases can be solved inductively with Big Data and creates a new case at the end of the inaugural lecture in which he tries to fathom deductively and inductively what makes people and nations happy. In his model, he shows the factors influencing happiness and clarifies whether people in North Korea are happier than Germans. 

The event will be held in German. You are welcome to register here. We are looking forward to seeing you!