ESMT Berlin

• Judgment & Decision-making
• Competitive and Corporate Strategy
• Business Economics
• Organizational Behaviour
• Financial Management and Corporate Finance
• Financial Accounting

One track focuses on quantitative business and includes subjects like:

• Advanced Statistics
• Operations & Supply Chain
• Econometrics
• Investments (Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing)

The second track concentrates on innovative management, including courses such as:

• Entrepreneurship
• Sustainability
• Global Economy
• People Management and Leadership
• Negotiation

For students fluent in German: you will choose a language needed to effectively manage business relationships in the world’s fastest growing economies. Possibilities include, but are not limited to, Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish. There will be up to two languages on offer each year.

For students not fluent in German: you will have the chance to study German, which allows you to complete internships and projects in German organizations and dramatically increases your competitiveness on the German job market after graduation.

Students are able to practice their foreign languages during their internships, master’s thesis, and social impact project, all or some of which can be in a country where that language is spoken.

ESMT currently works with a growing number of companies to offer internships.

Please note that while ESMT has agreements with internship providers to offer internships, participants are still required to apply and pass the target company’s selection procedures. Participants may also source their own internship opportunities.

This year, students gained internship positions at (examples):

• Boeing working in Market Research & Strategy Support
• BOSCH working as Product Manager
• Citi working as Investment Banking Placement Analyst
• Daimler working as Risk Manager
• Deutsche Bank working as Global Trade Finance Product Manager
• KPMG working in the Deal Advisory
• Mercedes Benz Bank working in Risk Provisioning
• Porsche working in Business Development
• Simon Kucher & Partners working as Visiting Consultant
• United Nations working as Program Manager
• Zalando working in the Analytics and Business Department

Besides Germany, students are gaining international experience by interning in Japan, Turkey, Switzerland, France, South Korea and Kenya.

While working on their Master’s thesis, students may seek the opportunity of a second internship and carry out their research with support from practitioners. Alternatively, particularly those who intend to pursue an academic career may opt for working on a thesis topic in close coordination with a professor’s own research agenda.

• Sustainable energy projects in Bangladesh and Madagascar
• Assessing social innovation programs by a global consulting firm
• Measuring the cost of inaction in developing countries
• Developing a mobile app for health improvement
• Launching a financial literacy program for highschool students

While working on their Master’s thesis, students may seek the opportunity for a second internship and carry out their research with support from practitioners. Alternatively, particularly those who intend to pursue an academic career may opt for working on a thesis topic in close coordination with a professor’s own research agenda.