The awards for the best Bachelor’s theses have been an integral part of faculty life for many years. Twice a year, Wismar Business School honours particularly outstanding academic theses.
This year, the following theses were recognised:
Lara Baumbach
(Business Law):
‘The Cyber Resilience Act as the interface between product safety law and European digital strategy – new cybersecurity requirements for products and implications for IVU Traffic Technologies AG’, supervised by Prof. Dr Andreas Bücker.
Leon Kreft
(Business Informatics):
“Automatic Evaluation by LLM Judges – An Empirical Analysis of Self-Preference Bias in Customer Service Chatbots”, supervised by Prof. Dr Tobias Brendel
Mattis Plant
(Business Informatics):
“Intent to Use Generative Artificial Intelligence in Project Management – An Empirical Analysis Based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology in the Pre-Adoption Phase”, supervised by Prof. Dr Marianne Schmolke.
The awards ceremony took place on 6 July 2026 as part of a formal event in Room 20/220.
The Faculty would like to extend its sincere thanks to Jana Wegner from Möhrle Happ Luther GmbH, who once again hosted the awards ceremony. We would also like to thank all the supervising lecturers and the participating corporate partners for their support. We warmly congratulate the award-winning graduates on their outstanding achievements and wish them every success in their future professional and personal endeavours.