Timeline and courses
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On this page you can find more details about the curriculum and program structure of the Master in Global Management (MGM) and can take a closer look at some of the standout learning experiences on the program.
The MGM program begins in September each year, and lasts for 24 months. In this time, you will develop the knowledge and skills needed to move into general management, business development management, strategy consulting and more.
The full two-year program is worth 120 ECTS credits, it is split between foundational courses and advanced electives:
- Foundation courses cover the most important areas of management theory and practice, with a focus on leading organizations in the globalized world of the 21st century.
- Advanced electives delve deeper into specific industries and applications. You can find a full list of these electives in the curriculum displayed below, in terms four and five.
MGM Program timeline and courses
- The State of the World
- Statistics
- Business Economics
- Foundations of Strategic Management
- Judgment Decision-making
- Financial Accounting
- Financial Management & Corporate Finance
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Careers Bootcamp
- Group Dynamics
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Meeting Effectively
- Business Presentations
During your Master's in Global Management program, you can take optional German classes that integrate language learning with practical applications to enhance your academic journey. Improving your proficiency in German equips you with a valuable skill set that supports both personal growth and future career opportunities.
- Status, Persuasion and Power in Organizations
- Global Corporate Strategy
- Operations & Global Supply Chain Management
- The Global Economy
- Managing Organizations in a Global Context
- Marketing Management
- Data Visualization through Coding
- The Psychology of Conflict Resolution and Resilience
- Project Management through SCRUM
During your Master's in Global Management program, you can take optional German classes that integrate language learning with practical applications to enhance your academic journey. Improving your proficiency in German equips you with a valuable skill set that supports both personal growth and future career opportunities.
Complete an internship of up to six months with a company that aligns with your careers goals, in coordination with ESMT. German students are encouraged to complete their internship abroad.
ESMT currently works with a growing number of companies to offer internships.
Please note that while ESMT has agreements with internship providers to offer internships, participants are still required to apply and pass the target company’s selection procedures. Participants may also source their own internship opportunities.
- Boeing working in Market Research & Strategy Support
- Accenture working as a Strategy Consulting Intern
- BMW working as a Sustainability Strategy Intern
- Daimler working as a Risk Management Intern
- United Nations as an Intern in Information and Communication Technology Section
- Deutsche Bahn in Strategic Organizational Development
- KPMG working in Deal Advisory
- Helix Cognitive Computing GmbH as a Blockchain Research & Cryptoeconomics Trainee
- Rocket Internet SE working as an International Finance Intern
- Google working as a Marketing Intern
- Bayer Healthcare working in Digital Health and Innovation
- Zalando working on the Business Development team
Besides Germany, students are gaining international experience by interning in Japan, Turkey, Switzerland, France, South Korea and Kenya.
- Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing
- Fixed Income Investments
- International Finance
- Introduction to Investment Banking (only for Finance and Investment Certificate)
- Doing Business Sustainably
- MARGA Strategy Simulation
- Data Science for Analytics
- Survey Design
- Innovating with AI: Large Language Models in Business
- Entrepreneurial Sales & Marketing
+ MIE and MAAI core courses
*If you choose to participate in the Global Impact Program (GIP), you will follow a predefined curriculum abroad at UVA. Click here to see Term 4 courses for GIP.
- Talent Management & Acquisition
- Cross Cultural Management
- Consulting
- Building Professional Networks
Foreign language training is fully integrated into the curriculum of the Master in Global Management program. It is During your Master's in Global Management program, you can take optional German classes that integrate language learning with practical applications to enhance your academic journey. Improving your proficiency in German equips you with a valuable skill set that supports both personal growth and future career opportunities.
- Alternative Investments
- Valuation
- Advanced Investment Strategies
- Risk Modelling
- Ambidextrous Leadership
- Negotiation
- Open and Distributed Models of Innovation
- Analytics and AI for Healthcare Management (with pre-requisites)
- Machine Learning Models in Production (with pre-requisites)
- Data-driven Solutions for Climate Adaptation, Mitigation and Resilience (with pre-requisites)
- Social Entrepreneurship
+ MIE and MAAI core courses
*If you choose to participate in the Global Impact Program (GIP), you will continue with the pre-set curriculum upon returning to Berlin. Click here to see Term 5 courses for GIP.
- Impact Consulting
- Cyber Security
- Stress Management & Resilience
- Leadership in Practice
The Social Impact Project is a five-week project for both Master and Full-time MBA students. It offers students the opportunity to serve as an economic or management consultant for an organization with specific social impact objectives.
- Introduction to Research Methods
- Research Strategies Week
During your Master's in Global Management program, you can take optional German classes that integrate language learning with practical applications to enhance your academic journey. Improving your proficiency in German equips you with a valuable skill set that supports both personal growth and future career opportunities.
While working on your Master thesis, you may seek the opportunity of a second internship and carry out your research with support from practitioners.
Alternatively, particularly those who intend to pursue an academic career, you may opt for working on a thesis topic in close coordination with a professor’s own research agenda.
Additional options
Finance and Investment Certificate
You can opt to complete advanced courses in finance subjects with a focus on global investment strategies.
You will be issued an ESMT Finance and Investment Certificate in addition to your master's degree.
Global immersion
- Spend up to six months of your internship at a company or organization operating on a global scale at first job level and benefit from invaluable practical experience that will prepare you for the job market.
- Join the Global Impact Program (GIP) for an immersive exchange with UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce, fostering cross-cultural collaboration across two continents in a specialized curriculum focused on social impact and sustainability.
- Take an academic term spent at a top-ranked ESMT partner school in Europe or beyond, fully integrated into the course schedule during your second year to extend your academic, cultural and communication skills.
- Participate in foreign language courses in German, French, Spanish and Chinese to prepare for your international career.
Collaborative learning
Modern business is global - ESMT students thrive in a global environment
The value a diverse international cohort brings to your personal development is that it prepares you for any challenge and opportunity the modern world holds in stock for you.
With over 30 nationalities represented in the classroom you benefit from fresh perspectives, unique experiences, and a broad set of skills. ESMT Berlin's unique approach to collaborative learning means that working and thriving in diverse and international teams comes as second nature.
Matt Bothner
Nationality: USA
Education: Columbia University, Ph.D.
Research area/focus: Semantic network analysis; status measured through eigenvector centrality
Courses taught: Status and Organizations: Approaches to Leading with Agility
Fun fact: I played basketball in the junior Olympics
“Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
Jamie Song
Nationality: South Korea
Education: INSEAD, Ph.D.
Research area/focus: Entrepreneurial strategy, social networks, machine learning
Courses taught: Foundations of Strategic Management
Fun fact: I’ve lived across four continents and seven cities in the past ten years.
“The principles of strategic management will be a compass guiding you through the complexities of business, illuminating paths to gaining and sustaining competitive advantage, and empowering you to shape the future of organizations.”
Eric Quintane
Nationality: France
Education: University of Melbourne, Ph.D.
Research area/focus: Social network analysis
Courses taught: Managing Organizations is a Global Context (MGM/MIE), Organizational Analytics: Data, Models, and People (MAAI)
Fun fact: I convinced my family to spend a night with me in a treehouse in the middle of the Amazon forest.
“No one can effectively implement third-generation strategies through second-generation organizations run by first-generation managers.” - Bartlett and Ghoshal (1990)
David Royane
Nationality: UK
Education: University of Warwick, Ph.D.; University of Oxford, Post doc.
Research area/focus: Industrial organization and behavioral economics
Courses taught: Business Economics
"We will explore business-relevant economic concepts and results, bringing them to life through applications and interactive exercises. The questions we will address range from the fundamental, e.g., 'What are the benefits of a free market?' to the practical, e.g., 'How should you price a product line?'"
Merih Sevilir
Nationality: Turkey/USA
Education: INSEAD, Ph.D.
Research area/focus: Entrepreneurship, gender gaps in leadership and entrepreneurship, healthcare finance, mergers and acquisitions
Courses taught: Financial Management and Entrepreneurial Finance
Fun fact: Studied, lived and worked in 5 countries in the last 20 years (England, France, USA, Italy and Germany).
"It lays the foundations of modern finance theory based on Nobel Prize winning theories in financial economics. Using finance theory to understand the creation and growth of entrepreneurial startups."
Nazlı Sönmez
Nationality: Turkey
Education: London Business School, Ph.D.
Research area/focus: Operational innovation in healthcare
Courses taught: Operations and Global Supply Chain Management (MGM/MIE/MAAI), Analytics and AI for Healthcare Management (MAAI)
Fun fact: I was the co-founder of Bilkent University Baking Club during my college years.
"You can't manage or improve what you can't measure."
Julia Langdon
Nationality: Spain/UK
Education: London Business School, Ph.D.
Research area/focus: How we judge unethical behavior, moral lay theories, moral messaging around disability, and negotiations.
Courses taught: Negotiations
Fun fact: I once walked from Bordeaux to Valencia.
"It is not the critic who counts; ... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, ... who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, ... and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." - Theodore Roosevelt
Linus Dahlander
Nationality: Sweden
Education: Chalmers University of Technology, Ph.D. and Stanford University, Post doc.
Courses taught: Innovation, entrepreneurship, new technologies
Fun fact: I once broke my arm while arm wrestling with a childhood friend. We are still friends even though he won.
"AI is changing how we innovate by opening new ways to solve problems and think creatively. But many people still don’t understand how to leverage it to the fullest potential."
Jan Sebastian Nimczik
Nationality: Germany
Education: University of Mannheim, Dr. rer. pol.
Research area/focus: Labour markets and immigration
Courses taught: Data Science for Analytics (MGM/MIE), Machine Learning and Causality (MAAI)
" In this class we connect the predictive power of machine learning with the quest for answers to causal questions that help us make thorough decisions."
Huseyin Gurkan
Nationality: Turkey
Education: Fuqua School of Business is the business school of Duke University, Ph.D.
Research area/focus: Decision sciences, incentive management
Courses taught: Advanced Decision Analysis (MAAI), and Statistics in (MGM)
Fun fact: I have never tried doner kebap in Berlin.
Angeliki Papachroni
Nationality: Greece
Education: University of Warwick, Ph.D.
Research area/focus: Strategy & innovation
Courses taught: Foundations of Entrepreneurship (MIE), Organizing for Innovation (MIE), Ambidextrous Leadership (MGM)
Fun fact: So far I have traveled to 29 Greek islands, there are approximately only 198 to go!
“There is nothing more practical than a good theory” - Kurt Lewin
Oliver Binz
Nationality: Germany
Education: Duke University, Ph.D.
Research area/focus: Valuation
Courses taught: Financial Accounting
Fun fact: Lived in 7 countries
"A = L + E"
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Dedicated lecturers
ESMT's international faculty combine the very best business teachers and researchers from around the world, brought together in Berlin to share their experience in business practice and thought leadership with a passion that puts the learning experience before everything else.
Situated in state-of-the-art facilities and supported by a world-class community of entrepreneurs and corporate partners, ESMT Berlin has laid the foundations for innovative research and excellence in the classroom.
Program Advisory Committees (PACs)
Each MSc program at ESMT Berlin is supported by a Program Advisory Committee (PAC) made up of alumni and industry professionals. These committees offer strategic guidance on program development, career placement, and market relevance, working closely with the Director of Programs and Faculty Leads.
Gilles Bouman
Gilles, born and raised in Amsterdam, is a Master in Management 2016 alumni that started his career at Roland Berger in 2018. In 2023, he joined Mentha Capital (a Dutch private equity firm focused on SME in the Benelux) to help set up their new Impact Fund.
This Fund was successfully raised in the summer of 2024 and aims to invest in companies that have a positive impact on the environment whilst making a financial return. He happily lives in Amsterdam, with his partner and newborn daughter.
Michael Szadurski
Michael Szadurski is a seasoned professional with over 15 years of experience in corporate finance, valuation, and mergers & acquisitions (M&A), particularly within the renewable energy and infrastructure sectors.
He has led numerous international M&A transactions for a DAX40 company and currently serves as a Partner at IOM Advisory. In this role, he advises entrepreneurs, corporations, and financial investors on medium-sized M&A transactions. Michael's expertise extends to corporate valuations and financing, making him a valuable asset in the industry.
Michael holds a Master of Business Administration from the ESMT Berlin. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
Nicole Wagner
Nicole is an ESMT Berlin Master in Management alumna and the Director of Product & Engineering at McKinsey & Company, where she is responsible for building and scaling new businesses across multiple markets, with a particular focus on the consumer sector.
Her core areas of expertise include defining and launching end-to-end customer-centric experiences (releasing MVPs within three months), scaling digital products through continuous data-driven delivery, and building high-performance, cross-functional agile teams.
Dr. Oliver Engels
Oliver Engels is an Alumni of ESMT and successfully graduated in 2006 in the first MBA class with honors and as one of two winners of the Leadership Award. His academic background is Physics, where he graduated as PhD in 1998.
Oliver held executive positions with KPMG, Fresenius and since 2014 with Deutsche Börse. In addition, Oliver had various Non-Executive Director assignments, currently on the Supervisory Board of Clearstream Fund Center Holding S.A.
Sapthagiri Chapalapalli
Sapthagiri Chapalapalli is Head of TCS in Europe, based in Frankfurt, Germany. Since 2020, he has overseen IT services, consulting, and business solutions across 22 countries, serving over 300 clients.
He led the launch of TCS Pace Ports in Amsterdam and Paris, expanded the European Delivery Network, and guided the organization to carbon neutrality in 2022. Previously, he was Vice President and Managing Director for TCS in Germany and Austria, and held leadership roles in the UK and US. He holds an MBA in Finance, HR, and Marketing from the T.A. Pai Management Institute and a BBM from GITAM (Andhra University).
Sarena Lin
Sarena Lin is a global executive and board director with 25 years of experience in life sciences and technology. She serves on the supervisory boards of Siemens Healthineers AG and Bergman Clinics.
From 2021 to 2023, she was Chief Transformation and Talent Officer and a member of the Board of Management at Bayer AG. Prior to that, she was President of Elanco Animal Health and of Cargill’s global animal nutrition business, where she led 11,000 employees across 250 sites in 30 countries, following her role as Corporate Vice President for strategy and M&A.
Sarena holds an MBA in Strategy and an MA in International Relations from Yale, and a BA in Computer Science from Harvard.
Torsten Kurth
Torsten Kurth is a Senior Partner and Managing Director at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Berlin, which he joined in 2000. He is a core member of its Health Care and Industrial Goods practices as well as its global scientists' network, and the Global Topic Leader for Nature, focusing on biodiversity, water, and regenerative land use.
He previously led the Berlin office for seven years, contributes to BCG’s Social Impact network, and serves on ESMT’s advisory council.
Before BCG, he was a research scientist at BASF AG, specializing in pharma, agro, and fine chemicals. Torsten holds a degree in economics and earned his master’s and PhD in biochemistry in Leipzig and at Brandeis University.
