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ESMT Prof. Francis de Véricourt explores how executives can leverage the power to win more with AI than with AI alone.

Martin Schweinsberg, professor at ESMT Berlin, led a crowdsourced research team involving nearly 180 co-authors to understand what drives decisions in data analyses. Their paper is forthcoming in OBHDP.

The study compares the analyses of different researchers who tested the same hypotheses on the same dataset. Analysts reported radically different analyses and dispersed empirical outcomes, including significant effects in opposite directions. Decisions about variable operationalizations explained variability in results beyond statistical choices (i.e. which analysis or covariates to use).

Martin Schallbruch, director of the Digital Society Institute at ESMT Berlin, speaks with Tagesschau about uniform rules for states and municipalities and better coordination between the federal and state governments.

How is the importance of responsibility and CSR in companies changing in these times of uncertainty? Matthew Bothner, professor at ESMT Berlin, talks about this topic for the interview series "3 Fragen an ..."

Martin Schallbruch, director of the Digital Society Institute at ESMT Berlin, talks about administration in Germany and why the state often gets in its own way.

An exploration of how ‘framing’ decisions by exploring our choices is a skill we can all deploy, based on the book "Framers", co-written by Francis de Véricourt, professor at ESMT Berlin.

David Núñez provides an insight into working with the Pulsera Project, a nonprofit organization tackling poverty and social injustice, for his Social Impact Project.

Career Development International has published research by Konstantin Korotov, ESMT professor of organizational behavior, titled "Executives and career shocks: observations from coaching practice."

The research is a qualitative analysis of managers' career shock experiences from executive coaching interventions. In its findings, it presents coaching as an opportunity to process emotional reactions, providing agency when responding to disruptive change.

ESMT Berlin's Online MBA program includes a new course focusing on leading global virtual teams, an online escape game, and an “Unmute!” project to prepare students for the new world of virtual work.

The journal article “The Variance of Variance”, co-written by ESMT professor Chengwei Liu, was nominated as a finalist for the 2021 Best Paper Award for Organization and Management Theory division. The paper will be included in the Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management 2021. In addition, his paper “In luck we trust: Capturing diversity bonus through random selection” is published in the Journal of Organization Design.

Both papers investigate the often overlooked role of luck in management and organizational design. "The variance of variance" promotes the applications of chance models to understand when luck is a better explanation for corporate successes, whereas "In luck we trust" explores how random selection may help capturing diversity bonuses within teams when blind luck trumps biased reasons.

The Digital Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT Berlin and Xayn highlight the potential of a decentralized new approach to implement and futureproof governmental AI strategies and elaborate on potential use cases in the health sector and law enforcement.

In government, the use of AI often fails because of the privacy dilemma. New decentralized, privacy-friendly technologies such as masked federated learning could change that, explain Martin Schallbruch, director at the Digital Society Institute at ESMT Berlin, and Michael Huth.

At ESMT Berlin, through the school’s Social Impact Project where Masters in Management students spend five weeks serving as an economic or management consultant for an organization with specific social impact objectives, many students take the opportunity to utilise this project to help those in the most need.

It may give you a good conscience to invest your money ecologically. But it does nothing for the climate, explains Jörg Rocholl, president at ESMT Berlin, in his recent article for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Isabel Skierka, program leader for technology policy and a researcher at the DSI at ESMT Berlin, spoke at the Tagesspiegel event about digital identities in Europe and Germany.