Dr. My Hanh Doan receives the Commerzbank Dresden Cultural Foundation's Prize for Economics

On November 4, 2026, the 2026 Commerzbank Awards were presented at a festive ceremony in the Rectorate Ballroom. This year marked the inaugural presentation of the  Commerzbank Cultural Foundation's Future Prize, which replaces the Dr. Walter Seipp Prize after 30 years.

With the Future Prize, the Commerzbank Dresden Cultural Foundation honors an outstanding dissertation or thesis from the Faculty of Business and Economics. The prize money amounts to €5,000.

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Dr. My Hanh Doan from the Sustainability and Biodiversity Management Research Group is the recipient of the Future Prize. Her dissertation, titled “Corporate Sustainability Management and Corporate Sustainability Performance: Empirical Evidence from Reporting Practices” was supervised by Prof. Remmer Sassen. With her dissertation, My Hanh Doan makes an outstanding scientific contribution to the field of sustainability management. Using diverse and complex empirical methods, she examines the relationship between companies’ sustainability performance and their communication about sustainability to their stakeholders. The research, based on four scholarly articles, is divided into two sections: The first two articles focus on environmental performance and are based on meta-analyses of existing studies. The last two articles focus on ESG performance—which is interpreted more broadly—and, due to limited prior research, draw on original data. The work is of societal relevance, as it offers valuable practical guidance for companies seeking to align their sustainability management and sustainability reporting with measurable performance.

We extend our warmest congratulations to Dr. My Hanh Doan on this award and express our sincere gratitude to the Commerzbank Dresden Cultural Foundation for its generous support.

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