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ESMT Berlin holds a roundtable with Franziska Giffey, Berlin mayor, and Berliner Zeitung. They have a discussion about Berlin's weaknesses and opportunities.

manager magazin reports on Hiltrud Werner, the former VW board member, who now lectures at ESMT Berlin and coaches junior managers.

ESMT Berlin makes it to the list of German universities that teach entrepreneurship.

Find MBA names ESMT Berlin as one of the best MBA programs for global mobility. The list highlights ESMT Berlin's international and intercultural components, as well as collaboration with other international business schools.

Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, the director of the Digital Society Institute at ESMT Berlin, and Isabel Skierka, the program lead for technology politics and a researcher with the Digital Society Institute, write an article about German cyber security. They state that to have a more resilient cyber security strategy, Germany critically depends on its ability to learn, adapt and coordinate important stakeholders.

Michael Tekabe, MBA graduate from ESMT Berlin, is one of the winners of the FT's Responsible Business Education Awards. Financial Times highlights his work at Kubik, an African start-up that makes low-carbon, low-cost building materials out of hard-to-recycle plastic waste, and the importance of this project.

Financial Times names ESMT Berlin as one of the winners of FT responsible business education awards and highlights the shift towards the study of societal impact in schools.

Viktoria Kulish, recipient of the BMW Group Fellowship for Ukraine, talks about the importance of doing an MBA as a woman in business and how the online MBA "considers the demands of modern leadership, VUCA time challenges, and virtual global work in an effective manner."

Roland Siegers, director of External Engagement at ESMT Berlin, says ESMT Berlin creates learning opportunities in close alignment with industry, start-ups, and other organizations. He points out the importance of having high-quality contacts and offers for a successful career start for ESMT Berlin graduates.

Jan Hagen, professor at ESMT Berlin, names Sanna Marin, Finland’s prime minister, an outstanding political leader in 2022. He writes about her leadership achievements and her approach toward her mistakes in a Forbes article.

Franz Rentel, Hugo Sanchez, Niklas Weiler, and Liva Zepa, share their experience of module 1 of the Executive Transition Program, which focused on general management skills in the areas of operations, supply chains, sales and marketing, and finance management.

This week, 37 students have started their full-time MBA program at ESMT Berlin (2022: 40). The new class is composed of 54 percent women and 46 percent men.

Roland Siegers, director of External Engagement at ESMT Berlin, demands out-of-the-box thinking in regard to problem-solving from graduates in 2023. He also says he will require graduates to demonstrate awareness of the world around them, as it will help to tackle the challenges of the 21st century.

The EU and its member states are focusing too much on defensive economic policy measures vis-à-vis Beijing. Reflecting on their own economic policy strengths would be a better approach, writes Lars-Hendrik Röller, professor at ESMT.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) approved funding for a new research group involving 12 scientists from Germany and Austria, inlcuding Özlem Bedre-Defolie from ESMT Berlin. The project is called “Consumer Preferences, Consumer Mistakes, and Firm’s Response”.

A total of 2.25 million Euros for a period of 4 years was approved. Prof. Özlem Bedre-Defolie is a co-scientist in this research group and 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”. Özlem has been awarded a total of €215.600 from the DFG for her research.