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Business schools worldwide, including ESMT Berlin, are embedding sustainability into their programs, research, and campus life to meet the demands of prospective students. Industry-leading insights & research into sustainability can greatly impact global climate efforts.

Despite intensive discussions surrounding the Data Act, there has been little focus on an essential aspect for the advancement of digitalization in the European economy: regulations for cloud computing providers. Ironically, it is in this area where the Data Act seems to contradict its own objectives, writes Stefan Wagner, professor at ESMT Berlin, for Tagesspiegel Background.

ESMT Berlin is initiating the final phase of the restoration of its campus in the former GDR State Council building. The first floor of the not yet modernized wing has been dedicated today as the President George H.W. Bush Reunification Suite.

Tobias Raffel, director of the Future Institute at ESMT Berlin, says that out of the 500 largest companies worldwide, only 5% have set biodiversity targets, while 83% of them have climate change related targets.

Linde, a leading industrial gases and engineering company, is supporting ESMT Berlin with the Linde Sustainable Leaders Fellowship. The company’s donation of $25,000 will provide support for two full-time MBA students in the upcoming January 2024 intake.

Margarita Fadieieva talks about her MBA journey, surviving war, and how the experience is helping her to become a better businesswoman. She emphasizes the importance of education and tenacity for achieving success.

Women and people far from headquarters often need help to get recognition for their ideas. One way to help is to put all ideas on equal footing through a “blinding” strategy. New research studies biases, blinding, and how managers evaluate their employees’ ideas.

Forbes names "INNOVA Europe", a competition launched by ESMT Berlin, EDHEC Business School, and POLIMI Graduate School of Management, as one of the partnerships that aim to address sustainability and climate change, and help provide the solutions for our future.

BusinessBecause writes about “INNOVA Europe”, a competition launched by EDHEC Business School, ESMT Berlin, and POLIMI Graduate School of Management for Master’s degree students to pitch innovative solutions for environmental challenges, with a prize of €5,000 and academic support. The article also mentions ESMT Berlin’s requirement for students to participate in a compulsory social impact project.

Roselva Tunstall, director of the Learning Innovation Lab at ESMT Berlin, says the metaverse can play a number of roles in online business education, depending on the digital strategy of the institution or the learning goals of the program.

Roselva Tunstall, director of the Learning Innovation Lab at ESMT speaks about how the metaverse can play a number of roles in online business education.

Thorsten Lambertus, managing director of DEEP - Institute for Deep Tech Innovation at ESMT Berlin, is named as one of the important figures from Berlin's economy.

ESMT Berlin is increasing its educational outreach in Central and Eastern Europe with the goal of acting as a vital bridge between the different regions of Europe, a strategy inherent to ESMT since its inception in 2002. As a part of this strategy, ESMT will enable even more students from Central and Eastern Europe to study at ESMT by collaborating with the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC).

Jörg Rocholl, President of ESMT Berlin, writes an article for Bundesfinanzministerium where he discusses how the long-term accumulation of wealth can be systematically and sustainably promoted for broad sections of German population.

Gabrielle Liu shares her internship experience working in an international team for a non-profit organization that helps entrepreneurs turn their ideas into successful businesses.