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On February 22, 2022, the four business schools Cranfield School of Management, ESMT Berlin, Imperial College Business School, and Rotterdam School of Management will host the online event “Women in Leadership” together.

The first Sustainability Bootcamp at ESMT Berlin, organized by the international business school’s entrepreneurship hub Vali Berlin starts today under the umbrella “Create ideas for a better tomorrow.” The boot camp brings together companies, non-governmental organizations, and entrepreneurial talents to discuss pressing issues facing our world and develop initial solutions. The focus will be on environmental challenges in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

As of February 2022, Prof. Lars-Hendrik Röller, PhD, has returned to ESMT Berlin as a professor of economics. Since 2011, the former president of the international business school served as chief economic advisor to German Federal Chancellor Merkel and G7 and G20 Sherpa. Lars-Hendrik Röller will also rejoin E.CA Economics, a European economic consultancy specializing in competition analysis.

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) has extended the accreditation of ESMT Berlin for another five years.

ESMT Berlin has revamped its full-time MBA program to emphasize employability. International exchange, internships, social impact, and German language learning options have been enabled, alongside more opportunities to tailor the curriculum and develop career-relevant skills.

On Saturday, February 5, 2022, ESMT Berlin will host its second TEDx conference, independently organized by students. This year the focus is on “Tomorrow’s Mindset” and how to change your own mindset to be better prepared for the future. All speakers will base their presentations on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This week 40 students from 21 different countries have started their full-time MBA program at ESMT Berlin. The new class is composed of 48 percent women and 52 percent men and is therefore well gender- balanced.

Compared to an optimal uniform price, charging different customers at different prices in online markets has limited effects on profits, finds new research from ESMT Berlin.

Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar has been named the new director of the Digital Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT Berlin. Currently serving as an ambassador at large for cyber diplomacy and director of the cyber diplomacy department at the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar will take up the position on January 1, 2022.

Understanding the biases that sneak into the decision-making process can help companies make smarter choices about which innovations to fund, according to new research.

In the Financial Times European Business School Ranking 2021, ESMT Berlin has been ranked seventh in Europe (2020: ninth) and is once again the highest ranked business school in Germany.

Entrepreneurial teams perform better if able to choose their own team members or their own ideas, finds new research from ESMT Berlin. However, this benefit to performance disappears if given autonomy to choose both.

ESMT EdTech team members Jon Demiglio, lead media designer, and Claudia Ocera, instructional technologist and learning designer, received gold at the Future of Management Education Alliance (FOME) Learning Design Innovation Awards for the drawbridge learning sequence of the course "Ethics and Responsibility.”

Private investors are increasingly investing in green finance, but this only contributes to reducing CO2 emissions under certain conditions.