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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.

Isolde Stephan she shares her EMBA experience of mastering negotiations, taking part in a business simulation, and getting started on her master's thesis.

The Federal Finance Minister wants startups to be internationally competitive. Baris Efe, a co-founder of Vali Berlin, the start-up hub of ESMT Berlin, shares his concerns regarding the reform of employee participation.

At ESMT, with the support of BMW, the school has awarded 10 full MBA scholarships to female students displaced from Ukraine and, additionally, established the Ukraine Impact Project, explains Molly Ihlbrock, director of corporate communications at ESMT.

The Global Cyber Alliance (GCA), an international nonprofit dedicated to eradicating cyber risk, announced today the appointment of Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar as the new chair of its Board of Directors.

With the NIS-2 directive, the EU has defined a new framework for cybersecurity, and even smaller companies can now fall under the critical definition. But they are sometimes left alone, comments Nils Brinker from ESMT Berlin.