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ESMT Berlin and the BMW Group are partnering to offer ten full-tuition scholarships for the September 2023 intake of the ESMT Global Online MBA. This program aims to nurture a new generation of leaders who will drive innovation, sustainability, and positive change in business and society in the future.

Raji Jayaraman, associate professor of economics and academic director of the FUTURE Institute for Sustainable Transformation at ESMT Berlin, Matthias Schündeln, professor at Goethe University Frankfurt, and Sneha Menon, research associate at the FUTURE Institute for Sustainable Transformation at ESMT Berlin, will work together with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the government of Rwanda to evaluate a nation-wide digital skills training program for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) teachers in Rwanda. The research team has received a grant of more than €300,000 for the project.

ESMT Berlin is offering several executive education full and partial scholarships to promote women in C-level and advanced management positions. A total of ten scholarships will be awarded for the three flagship programs Bringing Technology to Market, Executive Transition Program, and the General Management Seminar.

Researchers from ESMT Berlin and Bauer School of Business at the University of Houston have published “Solid Growth,” analyzing major global trends in technology-driven industries.

Vali Berlin, the entrepreneurship hub at ESMT Berlin, has published its first venture report. Over 230 ESMT alumni and students have so far founded over 200 companies in more than 15 countries in Europe, Africa, North and South America, and Asia.

Prof. Joachim Wuermeling will join ESMT’s teaching and research team at the end of the year. He will focus on topics related to the digitalization of finance as well as international financial institutions. A particular focus will be on the potential of the digital euro for finance and for companies.

ESMT Berlin and neue fische – School and Pool for Digital Talent will collaborate in the future to provide ESMT master’s students with more hands-on instruction in coding and analytics, preparing them for the demands of the job market.

The four European business schools Cranfield School of Management (United Kingdom), ESMT Berlin (Germany), Imperial College Business School (United Kingdom), and Rotterdam School of Management (Netherlands) have again joined forces to host the second virtual “Women in Leadership” event on February 16, 2023.

ESMT Berlin will become part of Maschinenraum, joining an alliance of over 60 family-owned companies, university partners, and other innovators working together on the digital transformation of German SMEs. At the heart of the collaboration with ESMT Berlin is a multi-layered exchange between academia and business.

Employees who act as brokers, i.e., they sustain communications between coworkers who do not communicate directly, are more likely to burn out and become abusive towards their co-workers, according to new research from ESMT Berlin.

On Saturday, February 4, 2023, ESMT Berlin students will host an independent TEDx conference for the third time. This year’s theme is “Berlin: A driver of sustainable transformation?”.

This week, 37 students have started their full-time MBA program at ESMT Berlin (2022: 40). The new class is composed of 54 percent women and 46 percent men.

The pandemic changed the demands on employers. Topics such as flexible working and work-life balance are among the most important attributes for the new generation when choosing their future employer, shows a recent study by ESMT Berlin Master of Management graduate Jan Malte Jeddeloh.

ESMT Berlin has received a philanthropic contribution from Prof. Dr. Andreas Dombret, supervisory board member of ESMT. This donation will support campus development, specifically the forthcoming renovation of Wing A of the former State Council building, for which the planning is underway.

As of January 1, 2023, Prof. Jörg Rocholl, PhD, president of ESMT Berlin, will chair the advisory board to the German Federal Ministry of Finance for two years.