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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.

With the support of BMW, Daimler, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, and Werte-Stiftung, ESMT Berlin has launched the Sustainable Business Transformation Initiative. The goal of this initiative is to increase its academic footprint in research and education on critical areas with impact for business and society and to provide innovative solutions to global environmental and social challenges.

Carsten Spohr, CEO at Lufthansa, spoke at the ESMT Berlin Annual Forum 2021 about possible flight bans that were occasionally irrational and lacking in substance.

Top-level representatives and experts from business and academia will come together at the ESMT Annual Forum 2021 to discuss this year’s theme “Designing the Future: How technological transformation influences the way we work, learn, and live.”

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.

Gianluca Carnabuci, professor at ESMT Berlin, explains how a cave day, made of distraction-free “sprints”, can help you concentrate on important work, starting with the most difficult task and working backwards.

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.

Joshua Glassmyer, MBA 2022, provides an insight into his key takeaways and experience of the financial accounting course by Per Olsson.

Diego Cammarano, MBA 2021, talks to the MBAGRADSCHOOLS team about why he chose ESMT Berlin, how the pandemic affected his MBA experience, and how ESMT helped him find a job amidst all the turbulence.

In this Monday interview, Volkswagen board member Hiltrud D. Werner talks about equality between men and women and tells that she is looking forward to the panel discussion at ESMT Berlin's Annual Forum, in which she will participate on Thursday.