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Fifteen years after the start of the first executive education program at ESMT Berlin and fifty years after the founding at Schloss Gracht of the “Universitätsseminar der Wirtschaft” (USW), the predecessor to ESMT, the integration of all executive education programs in English and German has been completed.

Students from the MBA program at ESMT Berlin have founded the first Net Impact sustainability chapter in Germany. Net Impact, a global organization focused on using business skills to combat social and environmental problems, has more than 100,000 members from 324 chapters in 40 countries around the world.

ESMT Berlin once again reports a positive annual statement for 2017 with a positive net income of 308,000 euros. Growth in the number of students and executive education participants underscore the good development of the international business school.

Some 200 national and international experts from science, politics, business, and civil society met yesterday and earlier today in Berlin at the 7th Berlin Demography Forum (BDF) to discuss the challenges of increasing migration within Germany and throughout Europe.

ESMT Berlin awards several executive education scholarships to promote women in management positions. Of these, two full scholarships are available for the Executive Transition Program (ETP), each worth EUR 22,900, and for the German-language General Management Seminar (GMS), each worth EUR 16,900. Qualified candidates can apply until April 30, 2018.

The Doha Institute, through their School of Public Administration and Development Economics, and ESMT Berlin are offering a dual Executive Master of Business Administration/Master of Public Administration (Executive MBA/MPA) degree from autumn 2018.

A new jointly produced publication of the German Energy Agency (dena) and ESMT Berlin details how blockchain technology can increase the data security of smart meters. The English-language publication builds on discussions held by international experts at the blockchain conference EventHorizon 2017.

ESMT Berlin has recently issued its R&D Annual Report 2017, demonstrating the high-quality research output of the international business school.

The Digital Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT Berlin welcomes its new affiliate Clemens Binninger, former member of the German Bundestag.

Dr. Norbert Sack has been appointed dean of executive education at ESMT Berlin. Previously a partner at the international professional services firm Egon Zehnder, he joined ESMT on January 1, 2018.

ESMT Berlin welcomed 68 students from 34 different countries to its current Full-time MBA program today. This is the largest class since the start of the program in 2006.

Reimagine Education has awarded ESMT Berlin and INSEAD Business the silver trophy in the MBA & Executive Education 2018 category for their open source and free “Negotiations Course for the World” project.

According to a survey by ESMT Berlin and the startup Grid Singularity, blockchain in the energy sector will continue to gain in importance.

Few discussions can be more awkward for a team of academic researchers than the one about whose name should be listed first, last, or even included at all as an author on a publication of research findings.

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