News
New paper by Konstantin Korotov published by Career Development International
June 22, 2021 | ESMT News
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.
"Online MBAs Prepare Students for Digital Leadership"
June 22, 2021 | Find MBA
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.
Two new papers by Chengwei Liu accepted for publication
June 22, 2021 | ESMT News
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.
"Datenschutzfreundliche KI für den öffentlichen Sektor"
June 22, 2021 | Tagesspiegel Background
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.
"How Are Business Schools Tackling The Refugee Crisis?"
June 21, 2021 | Forbes
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.
"Warum grüne Geldanlage nichts taugt"
June 21, 2021 | Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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.
"Moskau braucht Zuckerbrot und Peitsche"
June 17, 2021 | Handelsblatt
After the meeting between Biden and Putin in Geneva, the European Union must realign its policy toward Russia, says Jörg Rocholl, president at ESMT Berlin.
"COVID-19 Campus Updates For European Business Schools"
June 15, 2021 | BusinessBecause
ESMT Berlin welcomed its first group of students back to campus in April 2021 and plans to operate with the same hybrid model of teaching for the next academic year, so students can choose the option they prefer.