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New paper by Matthew Bothner accepted for publication
June 3, 2021 | ESMT News
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?
"JBS computer hack 'quite serious disruption'"
June 2, 2021 | Deutsche Welle
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.
LGBTIQ+ Campus Index
June 2, 2021 | Proudr
ESMT Berlin achieves the fifth-highest score in Germany and the highest in Berlin/Brandenburg in UHLALA's LGBTIQ+ Campus Index.
Stefan Wagner receives DFG funding for his research on pharmaceutical patenting
June 1, 2021 | ESMT News
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.
"My ESMT Berlin MBA: Back to school after a decade of work"
May 28, 2021 | Top MBA
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.
"Non-Executive Directors Can Make Climate Neutrality A Reality"
May 27, 2021 | Forbes
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.
ESMT Berlin launches initiative to track and reduce its carbon emissions
May 26, 2021 | Press Information
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.
"Framers with Kenneth Cukier and Francis de Véricourt"
May 22, 2021 | Soundcloud
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.
"Deutschlands spannendste Nachwuchs-Ökonomen"
May 20, 2021 | WirtschaftsWoche
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)