Carolin Puppel, program director for executive programs at ESMT, spoke with Executive Courses about the growing importance of soft skills for leaders, particularly in the era of AI, and how executive education programs are instrumental in cultivating these skills.
The Institute for Deep Tech Innovation (DEEP) at ESMT Berlin, in collaboration with KfW Capital, is developing a new executive education program for leaders in the venture capital sector. This program is part of the Growth and Innovation Capital for Germany (WIN) initiative, launched by the German federal government to strengthen the country's venture capital ecosystem and foster innovation in the technology sector.
Isabel Skierka, the program lead for technology politics and a researcher with the Digital Society Institute at ESMT Berlin, talks with Deutsche Welle about efforts different state and non-state actors undertake to collect data, surveil the Internet and launch cyber attacks.
Every regulation costs business - misjudgments like these block a reasonable reform of the financial markets, analyzes Jörg Rocholl in his new article for Handelsblatt.
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.
Nan Guo and Roselva Tunstall, directors of the Learning Innovation Lab at ESMT Berlin, talk about the transformative power of edtech and the new challenges and opportunities of hybrid learning design.
Tobias Raffel, executive director of FUTURE Institute for Sustainable Transformation at ESMT Berlin, calls for businesses and the economy to have their own biodiversity strategies and treat biodiversity protection as an important issue. He reminds Handelsblatt that half of the global GDP depends on nature resources.
Representatives of German science and non-governmental organizations - including the FUTURE Institute at ESMT - came together at the Berlin Museum of Natural History to discuss what needs to happen to ensure that the twenty-three ambitious goals from the COP15 in Montreal will be implemented.
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.
Rebecca Loades, director of MBA programs at ESMT Berlin, says that sustainability is woven through the entire curriculum and addressed in an integrated manner in the online MBA course.
Negative career shocks of senior managers – as the elimination of a workplace after a corporate restructuring – are quite common. But there are less available information about such developments in the lives of senior managers, writes Konstantin Korotov, professor at ESMT, in his article.
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.
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