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Top-level representatives and experts from business and academia will come together at the ESMT Annual Forum 2021 to discuss this year’s theme “Designing the Future: How technological transformation influences the way we work, learn, and live.”

Students of Net Impact ESMT recently started a data-driven carbon accounting initiative to measure, track, and reduce the carbon emissions of the international business school. This initiative is another step in ESMT’s efforts to place sustainability at the forefront of the institution.

EFMD, Europe’s largest network association for management development, has given two ESMT Berlin customized executive education programs Excellence in Practice (EiP) Awards.

In “Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil,” ESMT Berlin Professor Francis de Véricourt, together with Economist journalist Kenneth Cukier and Oxford Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger present an in-depth analysis of framing. The ability to frame, which is unique to humans and cannot be handed off to machines, gives us a tool to conquer today’s global challenges. The publication is being released today, May 11, 2021.

From May 10-11, 2021, the Cybercrime Conference C³ will take place at ESMT Berlin, organized by the German Federal Criminal Police Office together with ESMT’s Digital Society Institute (DSI) under the umbrella “European Strategies against a Global Challenge.”

New research from ESMT Berlin identifies how digital markets become monopolies and offers key insights for policymakers to ensure that in the future digital markets are better regulated and do not ‘tip’ towards monopolies.

ESMT Berlin is launching a global online MBA program, with the first class starting in September 2021.

ESMT Berlin’s Digital Society Institute, in collaboration with Ernst & Young (EY) and Nimbus Technologieberatung, will take over the accompanying research for the technology Showcase Programme “Secure Digital Identities” of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.

Governments may be more likely to downplay the severity of COVID-19 in countries where there is a high level of economic disparity, finds new research from ESMT Berlin.

ESMT Berlin has equipped several of its auditoriums with modern technology for hybrid and online formats. This will allow students to attend face-to-face and virtual lectures while adhering to coronavirus safety regulations.

On Saturday, February 6, 2021, ESMT Berlin will host its first TEDx conference, independently organized by students.

Tatiana Lluent will join ESMT Berlin as the Volkswagen Group Junior Chair for Diversity in Organizations and as an assistant professor of strategy on July 1. She is currently completing her PhD at Duke University. Lluent’s research focuses on organizational inequality, gender, and entrepreneurship.

This week, 51 students from 24 countries begin their full-time MBA program at ESMT Berlin (2020: 49 students). On average, the participants are 30,5 years old and have more than six years of professional experience.