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A thirst for professional knowledge and understanding more business areas are just two of the reasons Seunghee Cho chose ESMT Berlin for her MBA.

The paper “What is social status and how does it impact the generation of novel ideas?”, co-written by ESMT's professor Matthew Bothner, has recently been accepted and will be published in Research in the Sociology of Organizations.

The paper explores the relationship between two seemingly contradictory assets — status and novelty. As creativity, alongside risk and illegitimacy, is inherent to novelty, how and when does status — a typically stable asset, possessed by those who are highly regarded by highly-regarded others — catalyze the generation of novel practices?

The world's largest meat processing company has resumed most production after a weekend cyberattack. Isabel Skierka, program leader for technology policy and a researcher with the Digital Society Institute at ESMT Berlin, thinks the vulnerabilities exposed by this attack and others are far from resolved.

ESMT Berlin achieves the fifth-highest score in Germany and the highest in Berlin/Brandenburg in UHLALA's LGBTIQ+ Campus Index.

Stefan Wagner, associate professor of strategy and innovation at ESMT Berlin, successfully applied for DFG funding for a research project on “The use of Markush structures in pharmaceutical patenting and their effect on R&D competition in drug development.”

The research grant is for 24 months and comes with personnel funding for a research assistant and a student assistant, as well as funding for other direct project costs. The approved funding sum is €111,100 plus €24,400 overhead costs.

Apps, virtual reality, and AI are making learning more personalized and flexible. In pandemic times, the market is growing. Also ESMT Berlin invested in its online and hybrid classrooms.

Frans van der Werf is a Dutch candidate on ESMT Berlin’s full-time MBA program and is currently 41 years old. In this article, he explains why now, after 13 years of industry experience, was the right time for an MBA.

Joanna Radeke, manager of the Center for Sustainable Business and Leadership at ESMT Berlin, explores how codetermination helps transition to climate neutrality and sustainability and what non-executive directors can do to make climate neutrality a reality.

Students from ESMT Berlin were among the 703 students who participated in the Global Virtual Teams (GVT) course with students from 11 partner schools within the Global Network for Advanced Management.

The Hidden Champions Institute (HCI) at ESMT Berlin sponsors the EFMD Case Writing Competition. Hilde D. Engelen and Bianca Schmitz from the HCI discuss the importance of case writing and teaching on the topic of “Hidden Champions”.

Students of Net Impact ESMT recently started a data-driven carbon accounting initiative to measure, track, and reduce the carbon emissions of the international business school. This initiative is another step in ESMT’s efforts to place sustainability at the forefront of the institution.

The Executive MBA program that will be delivered using the blended learning approach will integrate the physical infrastructure of the local AHKs with the digital infrastructure of the ESMT online-learning platform.

Francis de Véricourt, professor of management science and the director of the Center for Decisions, Models, and Data (DMD-Center) at ESMT Berlin discusses his latest book with co-author Kenneth Cukier, journalist at The Economist, and an associate fellow at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School.

Özlem Bedre-Defolie, associate professor of economics at ESMT Berlin, is listed as one of Germany's most exciting young economists by WirtschaftsWoche. (metered paywall)

EFMD, Europe’s largest network association for management development, has given two ESMT Berlin customized executive education programs Excellence in Practice (EiP) Awards.