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Starting June 1, 2024, ESMT Berlin will offer seven fully furnished shared apartments to provide affordable housing for its students in Berlin. Each apartment will accommodate up to six people and is owned by the Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Berlin-Mitte mbH.

Julia Langdon, who joined ESMT as an assistant professor of organizational behavior in August 2023, has been appointed the Volkswagen Group Junior Chair for Ethics and Diversity in Organizations. The goal of the chair is to foster research on gender differences in career advancement, salaries, and entrepreneurial activities to identify opportunities to reduce inequalities in this area.

Georg Garlichs, chief financial officer and managing director at ESMT Berlin, officially received from WBM the symbolic keys to the new student housing apartments on Fischerinsel.

This article examines the possibility of AI taking over managerial roles and references research conducted by Maximilian Koehler, PhD candidate, and Henry Sauermann, professor of strategy at ESMT Berlin.

Jörg Rocholl, president at ESMT, expresses his opinion in Handelsblatt on the global challenges Europe is facing given the upcoming US election and how the EU could improve its position.

As companies face the dual challenge of meeting stakeholder expectations and addressing global sustainability issues, programs like ESMT’s Leading Sustainable Business Transformation offer a path forward.

A recent study by Prof. Stefan Wagner from ESMT Berlin shows an increasing bureaucratization of Germany. The analysis, which was conducted in collaboration with the internet platform www.buzer.de, testifies to a continuous increase in the volume of federal legislation in Germany and thus underpins the perception of increasing bureaucracy in Germany.

Handelsblatt wrote an article about the Bürokratieindex, which Stefan Wagner, professor of strategy and director of PhD studies at ESMT Berlin, invented to demonstrate that the cost of German bureaucracy has not declined but increased.

A recent analysis by Helene Pleil, research associate at the Digital Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT Berlin, alongside colleagues from Technical University Darmstadt, outlines that rapid technological progress, a lack of political will and uniform definitions, as well as the dual use of cyber tools, are the main challenges facing effective cyber arms control which is vital for foreign and security policy. As cyberspace is increasingly used in conflicts, cyber arms control needs to be addressed as well.

New research from ESMT Berlin shows how AI can manage human participants in large-scale research projects, taking over functions such as task allocation, coordination, and motivation.

This year’s DigitalFuture Summit (DFS), the annual networking event entirely organized by ESMT Berlin master’s students, will take place April 4-5 on campus in the center of Berlin. The event connects talented students and young professionals with potential future employers from around the world who are passionate about technology and innovation. Attendees gain direct insights from top industry leaders and experts and get the opportunity to expand their knowledge, develop new skills, and build valuable connections that can advance their career.

Firms with exclusive brokerage positions in their collaboration networks outshine their counterparts by an average margin of more than 7% in crisis conditions, according to recent research conducted at ESMT Berlin. The competitive advantage of exclusive brokers stems from their capacity to adapt quickly, and on their own terms, when crisis erupts - unlike their peers trapped in more tightly-knit, constraining networks.

The research of Linus Dahlander, professor at ESMT Berlin, is highlighted while investigating how companies can be enabled to become more innovative.

With the initiative Ghana1000, ESMT is supporting STEAM graduates by providing academic content to iiAfrica, the aim is to recruit and train at least 1000 graduates.

Nora Grasselli, program director at ESMT Berlin, argues that in today's fast-evolving business landscape, traditional, linear career paths are giving way to non-linear, multidimensional journeys, requiring leaders to adapt across industries and cultures and organizations to shift strategies to support these complex transitions.