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.
The paper “What is social status and how does it impact the generation of novel ideas?”, co-written by ESMT's professor Matthew Bothner, has recently been accepted and will be published in Research in the Sociology of Organizations.
The world's largest meat processing company has resumed most production after a weekend cyberattack. Isabel Skierka, program leader for technology policy and a researcher with the Digital Society Institute at ESMT Berlin, thinks the vulnerabilities exposed by this attack and others are far from resolved.
Stefan Wagner, associate professor of strategy and innovation at ESMT Berlin, successfully applied for DFG funding for a research project on “The use of Markush structures in pharmaceutical patenting and their effect on R&D competition in drug development.”
Apps, virtual reality, and AI are making learning more personalized and flexible. In pandemic times, the market is growing. Also ESMT Berlin invested in its online and hybrid classrooms.
Frans van der Werf is a Dutch candidate on ESMT Berlin’s full-time MBA program and is currently 41 years old. In this article, he explains why now, after 13 years of industry experience, was the right time for an MBA.
Joanna Radeke, manager of the Center for Sustainable Business and Leadership at ESMT Berlin, explores how codetermination helps transition to climate neutrality and sustainability and what non-executive directors can do to make climate neutrality a reality.
Students from ESMT Berlin were among the 703 students who participated in the Global Virtual Teams (GVT) course with students from 11 partner schools within the Global Network for Advanced Management.
The Hidden Champions Institute (HCI) at ESMT Berlin sponsors the EFMD Case Writing Competition. Hilde D. Engelen and Bianca Schmitz from the HCI discuss the importance of case writing and teaching on the topic of “Hidden Champions”.
Students of Net Impact ESMT recently started a data-driven carbon accounting initiative to measure, track, and reduce the carbon emissions of the international business school. This initiative is another step in ESMT’s efforts to place sustainability at the forefront of the institution.
ESMT Berlin and the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) recently announced a proposed collaboration to offer management education to international executives.
Francis de Véricourt, professor of management science and the director of the Center for Decisions, Models, and Data (DMD-Center) at ESMT Berlin discusses his latest book with co-author Kenneth Cukier, journalist at The Economist, and an associate fellow at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School.
Özlem Bedre-Defolie, associate professor of economics at ESMT Berlin, is listed as one of Germany's most exciting young economists by WirtschaftsWoche. (metered paywall)
EFMD, Europe’s largest network association for management development, has given two ESMT Berlin customized executive education programs Excellence in Practice (EiP) Awards.
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