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-Audi 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.

The Digital Society Institute (DSI), an independent institute for interdisciplinary research on topics of digitalization at ESMT, will continue for a further five years.

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.

In the Financial Times European Business School Rankings 2020, ESMT Berlin is ranked, for the second year in a row, ninth in Europe and first in Germany. ESMT remains the first and only German institution ever to make it to the European Top 10.

How can industrial companies achieve solid growth in today's global markets? How do they compete with new low-cost suppliers? How can they successfully market digital innovations?

Ola Källenius, Chairman of the Board of Management, Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz AG, has succeeded Dr. Dieter Zetsche as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the ESMT Foundation as of August 1, 2020. Dieter Zetsche, former CEO of Daimler, had held this position since 2015.

Angeliki Papachroni has joined the ESMT faculty as a lecturer for strategy and innovation.

Political and social engagement is a relevant topic for European business leaders. CEOs are increasingly making public statements on political issues in order to make a positive contribution to socially relevant topics.

ESMT Berlin ranked 26th in the Financial Times’ Masters in Management (MIM) Ranking 2020.

Today 56 students are taking up their part-time MBA studies at ESMT Berlin.

ESMT Berlin has enrolled 148 students, its largest cohort to date, in the current Master’s in Management (MIM) program, growing by 32 percent on 2019.

David Ronayne joined ESMT Berlin as Assistant Professor of Economics on September 1, 2020, bringing the total faculty to 39 members from 16 countries.