Faculty and Research

A premier business school is composed of an international and diverse faculty producing innovative research while also demonstrating excellence in the classroom. Situated in state-of-the-art facilities and supported by a world-class community of corporate partners, ESMT Berlin has laid the foundations for achieving these high aspirations.

• October 2025: Berlin’s 100 most influential minds in science. Francis de Véricourt and Oliver Binz named in Tagesspiegel’s “100 Leaders in Science in the Capital City in 2025”; a highly regarded recognition by Tagesspiegel honoring the most impactful contributors to science and higher education in Berlin and Brandenburg.
• June 2025: The 2025 Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (SEJ) Best Paper Prize by the Strategic Management Society and Wiley was awarded to Henry Sauermann for his paper "Fire in the belly? Employee motives and innovative performance in start-ups versus established firms."
• June 2025: Eric Quintane was awarded the "Mid-Career Scholar Award" by the Social Networks Society (SNS) of the Organization and Management Theory (OMT) division at the 2025 AOM conference in Copenhagen.
• May 2023: Nazli Sönmez was chosen for a 2022 M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, which recognizes her outstanding service provided over the past year for the M&SOM journal and for the professional community in general.
• May 2023: Jan Nimczik will be a part of Poets&Quants’ 40 under 40 MBA Professors 2023
• 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 million. 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)"