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On Saturday, February 5, 2022, ESMT Berlin will host its second TEDx conference, independently organized by students. This year the focus is on “Tomorrow’s Mindset” and how to change your own mindset to be better prepared for the future. All speakers will base their presentations on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This week 40 students from 21 different countries have started their full-time MBA program at ESMT Berlin. The new class is composed of 48 percent women and 52 percent men and is therefore well gender- balanced.

ESMT Berlin and Master in Management Compass (MIM Compass) are extending their previous partnership.

Compared to an optimal uniform price, charging different customers at different prices in online markets has limited effects on profits, finds new research from ESMT Berlin.

Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar has been named the new director of the Digital Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT Berlin. Currently serving as an ambassador at large for cyber diplomacy and director of the cyber diplomacy department at the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar will take up the position on January 1, 2022.

Understanding the biases that sneak into the decision-making process can help companies make smarter choices about which innovations to fund, according to new research.

In the Financial Times European Business School Ranking 2021, ESMT Berlin has been ranked seventh in Europe (2020: ninth) and is once again the highest ranked business school in Germany.

Entrepreneurial teams perform better if able to choose their own team members or their own ideas, finds new research from ESMT Berlin. However, this benefit to performance disappears if given autonomy to choose both.

ESMT EdTech team members Jon Demiglio, lead media designer, and Claudia Ocera, instructional technologist and learning designer, received gold at the Future of Management Education Alliance (FOME) Learning Design Innovation Awards for the drawbridge learning sequence of the course "Ethics and Responsibility.”

Private investors are increasingly investing in green finance, but this only contributes to reducing CO2 emissions under certain conditions.

On the second day of the international climate conference COP26, leading representatives of German business, academia, and civil society launched a new sustainability institute.

Tatiana Lluent, assistant professor of strategy, is the new holder of the Volkswagen Group Junior Chair for Diversity in Organizations at ESMT Berlin.

This week, 47 students with 24 different nationalities begin their part-time MBA program at ESMT Berlin.

There are many benefits generated by employees connecting with people in different areas or departments. However, the managers of these employees can react negatively if they are not kept in the loop, according to new research from ESMT Berlin.

Nine startup teams from Vali Berlin’s Summer Entrepreneurship Program (SEP) presented their business ideas to a jury of executives, investors, and faculty members at the ESMT Berlin satellite campus in Schöneberg yesterday. First place went to the founders Marie Kober and Julie Rosenfeld, MBA students at ESMT, of the startup SENVO, an automated freight invoice auditing and claims management software as a service for logistic departments across industries. They received the prize money of €5,000.