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-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.