All press releases
January 11, 2023
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.
December 13, 2022
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.
December 12, 2022
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.
December 7, 2022
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.
December 2, 2022
Companies should partially hide information on how long the queue is if their products are highly popular and valuable, according to research by ESMT Berlin. By partially hiding this information, the researchers say they are likely to generate more customers in the queue. However, if a product is of low-demand and of low-value, the researchers suggest that companies should avoid partially hiding the queue length information, as it is likely to have the opposite desired effect and deter customers.
November 29, 2022
One week before the start of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) in Montreal, an alliance of German science and non-governmental organizations calls for an end to economic activity against nature in its “Frankfurt Declaration,” which was published today. In their position paper, the organizations urge the German government and the European Union to ensure the success of the World Summit on Nature. At the same time, they offer concrete proposals for making a nature-friendly economy the standard. In doing so, they offer their expertise to solve the most urgent challenges facing humanity – the “twin crises” of biodiversity loss and climate change.
November 22, 2022
Today, November 22, 2022, ESMT Berlin launches the first stream of Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)-Berlin hosted by the DEEP – Institute for Deep Tech Innovation at ESMT. Startups and mentors will set critical objectives and priorities towards a global venture success story at CDL-Berlin’s first session.
November 10, 2022
The network of informal ties we build in the workplace is key to our success and performance. Yet, researchers at ESMT Berlin find, we often build networks that hamper our performance.
October 25, 2022
New research from ESMT Berlin finds that men are more likely to leverage co-location and face-to-face interactions to build high-status connections. Women, by contrast, are more effective at connecting with high-status colleagues via third-party ties.
October 11, 2022
This week, the 50 new students of the Executive MBA (EMBA) started their 18-month program at ESMT Berlin.
October 4, 2022
Maximilian Köhler takes first place at this year’s Demo Day at ESMT Berlin with his startup Optiwiser A.I. Solutions, a cloud-based platform that enables AI-driven demand and inventory planning for food and beverages. With this, the founder beats five other startup teams and receives prize money of €5,000.
September 27, 2022
The three business schools EDHEC, ESMT Berlin, and Polimi Graduate School of Management have launched the Student Challenge for Sustainable Development Impact. The competition calls on students to develop innovative and technology-driven solutions based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
September 20, 2022
This week, 53 students with 28 different nationalities have started their Global Online MBA program at ESMT Berlin. The intake also includes ten recipients of the “BMW Group Fellowships for Ukraine.”
September 15, 2022
As of September 1, 2022, Prof. Jörg Rocholl, PhD, will take up the Deutsche Bank Professorship in Sustainable Finance. The professorship focuses on the importance of the financial sector for a sustainable and green transformation and aims to provide evidence for the impact mechanisms of this change.
September 1, 2022
Francis de Véricourt, professor of management science at ESMT Berlin, has been appointed the holder of the new Joachim Faber Chair in Business and Technology and academic director of the new founded Institute for Deep Tech Innovation (DEEP) at ESMT as of September 1, 2022.