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On the second day of the international climate conference COP26, leading representatives of German business, academia, and civil society launched a new sustainability institute.

Tatiana Lluent, assistant professor of strategy, is the new holder of the Volkswagen Group Junior Chair for Diversity in Organizations at ESMT Berlin.

This week, 47 students with 24 different nationalities begin their part-time MBA program at ESMT Berlin.

There are many benefits generated by employees connecting with people in different areas or departments. However, the managers of these employees can react negatively if they are not kept in the loop, according to new research from ESMT Berlin.

Nine startup teams from Vali Berlin’s Summer Entrepreneurship Program (SEP) presented their business ideas to a jury of executives, investors, and faculty members at the ESMT Berlin satellite campus in Schöneberg yesterday. First place went to the founders Marie Kober and Julie Rosenfeld, MBA students at ESMT, of the startup SENVO, an automated freight invoice auditing and claims management software as a service for logistic departments across industries. They received the prize money of €5,000.

Forty-seven students with 27 different nationalities have started the Global Online MBA at ESMT Berlin this week.

Only two years after breaking into the list as the highest new entrant, ESMT Berlin has placed 12th in the Financial Times' global Masters in Management (MIM) 2021 ranking. The international business school has the highest ranked program of any university based in Germany.

Around 80 executives from hidden champions, as well as leading representatives from academia and society, will come together today at the 1st CEO Conference of the Hidden Champions Institute (HCI) at ESMT to discuss trends and developments in business and the economy.

New research from ESMT Berlin explores how negotiators can effectively solve negotiation breakdowns and prevent bitter deadlocks. The researchers identified three different types of negotiation impasses; wanted, forced, and unwanted.

Two new assistant professors joined ESMT Berlin, strengthening the business school’s faculty in strategy.

New research, led by Martin Schweinsberg, assistant professor of organizational behavior at ESMT Berlin, shows wide variance in research results due to different analytical approaches, even though all analysts tested the same hypotheses on the same data. Almost 180 co-authors from all around the world worked together on the project. A crowd of analysts independently analyzed the same dataset to test two hypotheses, and the researchers came up with 29 different results.

The DigitalFuture Summit will take place July 8-9, 2021 at ESMT Berlin. The two-day conference is hosted by Master in Management students in an online format and offers executives from global companies and innovative startups, talented students, and experts from academia an assortment of discussion and networking opportunities, as well as interesting future career possibilities.

ESMT Berlin achieved the fifth-highest score in Germany and the highest in Berlin/Brandenburg in the LGBTIQ+ Campus Index. Sixty-two universities from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland participated in the audit organized by UHLALA Group.

To implement and futureproof governmental AI strategies, we need powerful and GDPR-compliant technology for the public sector. So-called Masked Federated Learning can meet these high requirements for data protection, trustworthiness, and performance. In a position paper published today, the Berlin-based tech company Xayn and the Digital Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT highlight the potential of this decentralized new approach and elaborate on potential use cases in the health sector and law enforcement.

With the support of BMW, Daimler, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, and Werte-Stiftung, ESMT Berlin has launched the Sustainable Business Transformation Initiative. The goal of this initiative is to increase its academic footprint in research and education on critical areas with impact for business and society and to provide innovative solutions to global environmental and social challenges.