ESMT Berlin announces the founding of the Hidden Champions Institute (HCI), the first of its kind worldwide. The institute, launched to strengthen the backbone of Germany’s economy, will officially open on November 22.

ESMT Berlin is providing customized executive education for Malaysian CEOs and journalists who have come to Berlin to learn more about business strategies, human capital development, and the media ecosystem in Germany.

ESMT Berlin welcomed 89 students from 39 different countries to the current Master’s in Management (MIM) program this week, almost doubling the class size.

ESMT Berlin has joined the economic initiative #We4Europe to show solidarity for a unified and open Europe, thus supporting the European project.

Thirty graduates from ten African countries have started the first academic module of the Industry Immersion Program (IIP) in Cape Town, South Africa.

The G20 should engage in evidence-based decision process, according to a policy brief released by Jörg Rocholl, President, and Rajshri Jayaraman, Associate Professor of Economics, both of ESMT Berlin.

The supervisory board of ESMT Berlin has extended the contracts of Prof. Jörg Rocholl, president of ESMT Berlin, and Georg Garlichs, CFO, for five more years.

Benedict Aicher, the head of the DigitalFuture Summit and MIM student at ESMT Berlin, comments, “The DigitalFuture Summit is an event organized by students for students.

ESMT Berlin is holding the ESMT Annual Forum “Agility. Leading in Transition” on June 22, 2017. International business leaders and academics join the one-day conference to discuss the opportunities and challenges of agile business strategy and methods in the age of digitalization.

ESMT Berlin and the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) have launched the Industry Immersion Program (IIP) to prepare African graduates to transition from an academic environment to an applied industry setting.

The Digital Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT Berlin welcomes Michael Hange, former president of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), as new external affiliate. Michael Hange will support the DSI in cybersecurity questions, assist with workshops and conferences, and contribute to publication and research of the DSI.

ESMT Berlin is hosting the dialogue forum “Think 20 Summit – Global Solutions” on May 29-30, 2017. At the two-day conference, the world’s leading research institutes and think tanks from the G20 countries will gather in Berlin to discuss, evaluate, and adopt recommendations for solving issues of global importance.

ESMT Berlin has been ranked 14th in the first The Economist “Which MBA?” global ranking of the top 40 Masters in Management (MIM) programs.

ESMT Berlin placed 8th globally in the 2017 Financial Times Executive Education combined ranking of open enrollment and customized programs (2016: 12th).

With a positive net income after taxes once again, the annual figures 2016 of ESMT Berlin document the successful development of the international business school.