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On September 1, 2023, Oliver Binz joined ESMT Berlin as an assistant professor, strengthening the business school’s faculty in accounting.

Matthias Qian joined ESMT Berlin on September 1, 2023, as an assistant professor of strategy and entrepreneurship.

New research from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and ESMT Berlin uncovers the factors influencing the job choices of talented STEM PhDs, showing how and why startups can hire high ability scientists and engineers.

When beginning a negotiation, buyers often struggle to find a first offer that lowers the final sale price but also avoids the risk of non-agreement. Based on the analysis of 26 million real eBay negotiations, new research from ESMT Berlin in PNAS shows how an ideal first bid should look.

Julia Langdon joined ESMT Berlin as an assistant professor of organizational behavior on August 1, 2023.

The Executive Transition Program (ETP), an annual three-module seminar that prepares executives for general management roles, is turning 20 this year. The first module of the upcoming program will start on November 10, 2023, in Stockholm.

DEEP – Institute for Deep Tech Innovation at ESMT Berlin has signed a three-year partnership agreement with Bayer to jointly strengthen the translation of cutting-edge technologies in life sciences as well as biotech and healthtech startups.

New research from ESMT Berlin shows that shared medical appointments improve patient satisfaction, learning, and medication compliance, without compromising follow-up rates or clinical outcomes.

ESMT Berlin is launching the executive education program “AI for Managers” in collaboration with Merantix, Europe’s largest AI investment platform. The three-day program explores the essentials of artificial intelligence, its practical applications, and strategies for effective implementation. It will be held November 29-December 1 in Berlin.

On June 15, three major European academic institutions, POLIMI Graduate School of Management, EDHEC Business School, and ESMT Berlin, hosted the final of INNOVA Europe – a competition launched in 2022 to tackle societal, economic, and environmental challenges.

Machines can make better decisions than humans, but humans often struggle to know when the machine’s decision making is actually more accurate and end up overriding the algorithm decisions for worse, according to new research by ESMT Berlin.

Entrepreneur Lukasz Gadowski donates the Team Global Professorship for Disruptive Innovation at ESMT Berlin. He will also serve as an advisor in the ESMT Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

The Dr. Jost Henkel Stiftung supports students of the Industry Immersion Program (IIP) with a total of €60,000 to enable them to participate in local industry internships and thus gain important experience for their future careers.

Lars-Hendrik Röller, Angela Merkel’s former chief economic advisor and now professor of economics at ESMT, announces the launch of Berlin Global Dialogue. The new high-level forum provides a platform for global leaders from politics, business, and society as well as students and other young visionaries to discuss the future of the global economic order in times of fragmentation and transition. The inaugural summit will take place in Berlin from September 28-29, 2023.

Educators and learning specialists from ESMT Berlin share innovative classroom practices for executive education, including tips from Hollywood, gamification, and research insights in a new book: “The Future of Executive Education.”