Faculty and research

€215.600 DFG/FWF grant
Jan Söderberg Family Prize in Economics and Management

Prof. Özlem Bedre-Defolie

Prof. Bedre-Defolie was awarded a total of €215,600 from the German Research Foundation (DFG)/Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for her sub-project together with Prof. Dr. Markus Reisinger from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, titled “Consumer behavior and search on platforms”.

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Honors and awards

April 2023: Thorsten Lambertus, Managing Director DEEP - Institute for Deep Tech Innovation, was named as one of the top 100 most important figures in Berlin's economy by Tagesspiegel(in German only), online and in print.
December 20, 2022: Özlem Bedre-Defolie was awarded a total of €215,600 from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for a new research group involving 12 scientists from Germany and Austria. The title of the project is “Consumer Preferences, Consumer Mistakes, and Firm’s Response” and was awarded 2.25 milion. Prof. Bedre-Defolie as a co-scientist of the research group will lead a sub-project together with Prof. Dr. Markus Reisinger from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, titled “Consumer Behavior and Search on Platforms”.
March 2, 2022: Linus Dahlander awarded SEK 1 million (around €93,500) for the Jan Söderberg Family Prize in Economics and Management
November 22, 2021: Francis de Véricourt receives €121,786 DFG funding for his project on Diagnostic accuracy under accumulated pressure.
November 15, 2021: FT ranked as one of the best business books of 2021 "Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil", which was coauthored by Francis de Véricourt.
June 1, 2021: Stefan Wagner receives €135,000 DFG funding for his research on pharmaceutical patenting.
April 19, 2021: Martin Schweinsberg along with his coauthors Lara Bekhazi, Horacio Falcao, and Eric Luis Uhlmann, INSEAD won the 2020 EFMD Case Writing Competition in the category "Women in Business" for their case" The Dual Career Negotiation".
January 16, 2020: Jan Nimczik is one of the winners of the Joachim Herz Foundation’s German Prize for Economics 2020.
September 3, 2019: Özlem Bedre-Defolie was awarded the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant worth €1.5 million for her project "Digital Platforms: Pricing, Variety, and Quality Provision (DIPVAR)"

"Regierungsbeirat rät von Subventionswettlauf mit den USA ab"

May 26, 2023 | manager magazin

Jörg Rocholl, President of ESMT Berlin, along with other experts, cautions against engaging in a subsidy race with the USA due to the controversial US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and recommends focusing on streamlining planning and approval procedures, improving infrastructure, and reducing tax and regulatory burdens in Europe instead.

"Maschinelles Lernen erhöht Arbeitsbelastung"

May 26, 2023 | Haufe

New research by Tamer Boyaci and Francis de Véricourt, both professors at ESMT Berlin, that the use of machine learning in the workplace improves the accuracy of human decisions. At the same time, the increased cognitive effort increases the workload of decision makers.

"Business-Schools entdecken Wert der Forschung für sich"

May 19, 2023 | Handelsblatt

Business schools are known for practical manager training, but more and more are also getting involved in scientific research. Gianluca Carnabuci, professor and director of research at ESMT, explains why.