All press releases
January 24, 2024
ESMT Berlin is partnering with the three European business schools Cranfield School of Management (UK), Imperial College Business School (UK), and Rotterdam School of Management (Netherlands) for the third consecutive year to promote women in leadership in an online event on February 1.
January 22, 2024
Underlining its commitment to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education and the global business community, ESMT is offering several full and partial scholarships in executive education to promote women in C-level and advanced management positions. Ten scholarships are to be awarded for the three flagship programs: Bringing Technology to Market, Executive Transition Program, and the General Management Seminar.
January 9, 2024
In Fall 2024, ESMT Berlin, EDHEC Business School, and Imperial College London, three of Europe’s most renowned business schools, will launch a joint master’s degree program. The three-year program Global Economic Transformation & Technology (GETT) Europe will enable graduates to complete an excellent management education in the metropolitan cities of Berlin, Paris, and London, while preparing them for the complex economic and technological challenges of leadership.
December 12, 2023
In collaboration with Industry Immersion Africa (iiAfrica), ESMT Berlin is supporting the Ghana1000 initiative to encourage university graduates in STEM subjects with a successful start in a career in data analytics. To this end, 1000 graduates will be equipped with important business, digital, and leadership skills in a year-long work readiness program.
December 7, 2023
ESMT Berlin President Jörg Rocholl has been appointed as a new member of acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering. The election underscores his professional and scientific expertise, and highlights ESMT's position as an international business school at the forefront of innovation and technological progress.
November 30, 2023
In their 60-year history, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had to go through several radical organizational changes. New research by ESMT Berlin and Warwick Business School shows what NASA’s history can teach organizations about strategic agility, and how organizations can adapt their business models effectively to cater to external challenges.
November 16, 2023
Seconded employees - employees temporarily assigned to a different role, organization, or department - choose more innovative ideas and influence permanent staff to do the same, finds new research from ESMT Berlin.
November 13, 2023
ESMT Berlin has installed a photovoltaic (PV) system on the roof of its historical main building, covering about 25 percent of its electricity needs in the future. With a total of 893 highly efficient modules on the former GDR State Council building, the PV system achieves a total output of 366 kWp, making it the largest system of its kind in central Berlin. The system is expected to be connected to the electricity grid in January 2024.
November 3, 2023
Yesterday's CEO dialogue on “Leading Global Champions” brought together 200 CEOs and chairpersons of internationally active family businesses at ESMT Berlin. They engaged in discussions with leading German politicians such as Federal Minister Wolfgang Schmidt, head of the Federal Chancellery, and Carsten Linnemann, deputy party chairperson, Secretary General, and head of the CDU's Programme and Policy Commission. The primary focus was on the successful development of hidden to global champions.
October 31, 2023
New research from ESMT Berlin finds that shared medical appointments increase engagement from patients as they ask more questions, make more comments, and exhibit higher levels of nonverbal engagement, providing greater value for other patients in the sessions.
October 19, 2023
The characteristics people use to judge whether an idea will be successful differ vastly depending on the stage of the idea, according to new research from ESMT Berlin. At an early stage, people tend to look at the status of the idea creator and a carefully crafted presentation, characteristics that have little bearing on success. Whereas at a later stage in the development of business ideas, people are more likely to judge based on how popular it already is and how that popularity is growing.
October 10, 2023
With the MSc in Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, and the MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, ESMT Berlin introduces two future-oriented degree programs to enable graduates to be changemakers. Students will acquire knowledge and skills in areas critical to business success and ensure that the organizations that they join or found will meet the challenges of tomorrow.
September 6, 2023
At Berlin Global Dialogue 300 global policy and business leaders will unite in Germany to discuss the future of the global economy in times of transition. Participants of the conference will be heads of state such as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, ministers as well as global C-level business leaders.
September 4, 2023
On September 1, 2023, Oliver Binz joined ESMT Berlin as an assistant professor, strengthening the business school’s faculty in accounting.
September 4, 2023
Matthias Qian joined ESMT Berlin on September 1, 2023, as an assistant professor of strategy and entrepreneurship.