ESMT Berlin

Build management skills, tailor expertise, gain practical experience, and prepare for career progression through an immersive MBA in Berlin.

Develop leadership capability, broaden global perspectives, and apply new skills to career and organizational challenges while continuing to work.

Build management and leadership skills, apply learning at work, and grow a professional network while continuing your career.

Build management, technology, and innovation capabilities through a flexible online MBA that fits around work and personal commitments.

Build global management expertise and practical experience to pursue international careers across industries and borders.

Build practical innovation skills, develop ventures or transform organizations, and prepare for careers in entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, investment, or consulting.

Develop analytical and technical fluency to turn data and AI insights into responsible business decisions through practical projects and customizable study.

Build independent research capability through rigorous training, faculty supervision, and dissertation work, with research-cost support and no program tuition charge.

Build practical leadership and management capabilities, address business challenges, and expand your professional network through flexible executive learning.

Develop leaders and support organizational change through tailored learning journeys aligned with business goals and designed for practical application.

Build management and leadership skills through a personalized executive education path and earn formal recognition of your professional development.

Build practical AI and leadership capabilities to drive innovation, lead organizational change, and create business value.

Helps leaders build governed, resilient enterprise data foundations and actionable strategies for scalable, trusted AI.

Helps experienced executives broaden their strategic perspective, navigate disruption, and shape organizational strategy and change.

Strengthen leadership and strategic management capabilities to take on broader responsibility and guide organizational change, innovation, and sustainable success.

Prepare for a first leadership role with practical tools, greater confidence in leadership situations, and a network of peers.

Understand the human dynamics behind behavior, performance, and change to become a better leader.

Helps managers understand AI and assess business opportunities so they can turn potential into informed action.

Build influence and approach complex negotiations with greater confidence, practical tools, and attention to lasting relationships.

Gain insights to understand global shifts and adapt your business to a changing environment.

Build the leadership capability to understand and shape transformations and navigate organizational change with confidence.

Develop effective leadership skills and strengthen your ability to lead people and teams.

Helps participants rethink power and strengthen their ability to lead with impact.

Build readiness to lead under pressure and become calmer and more effective in high-stakes moments.

Prepares emerging talents to lead effectively and responsibly while building communication skills and professional connections.

Build essential skills and confidence for taking on a first leadership role.

Build the perspectives and emotional intelligence to support a transition into general management.

Helps participants unlock potential and strengthen team performance.

Develop leadership capabilities to help healthcare institutions lead effectively.

Helps leaders navigate AI-driven workforce transformation and its implications for teams, collaboration, motivation, trust, and skills.

Helps organizational leaders move AI from experimentation toward business impact with strategic frameworks, technology considerations, and change management.

Builds decision-makers’ understanding of AI regulation and risk, helping them develop approaches to compliance and governance.

Helps innovation practitioners use AI-driven strategies to accelerate innovation, scale projects, and develop products and services.

Helps leaders assess agentic AI opportunities and guide their organizations toward successful, governed implementation.

Build practical strategy skills to identify growth options, make stronger decisions, and connect strategic priorities to execution.

Helps leaders use digital transformation to optimize business and get ahead of disruption.

Helps leaders create innovative impact, identify opportunities, and lead change through practical learning and peer exchange.

Build financial fluency to evaluate performance and investments, manage risk, and make more confident strategic business decisions.

Organizations tackling social challenges receive focused management support from student teams, while students gain practical experience applying expertise to real-world needs.

Helps recent graduates apply management expertise to social challenges, gain hands-on experience, and deepen their understanding of responsible leadership.

Helps young African mathematics graduates prepare for careers through tuition-free academic learning and internships.

Build practical business and leadership skills, explore ESMT firsthand, and develop an international network during an immersive week in Berlin.

Explore and purchase business cases supported by teaching notes for use in learning and teaching.

Full-time MBA

A 15-month, English-language, in-person MBA in Berlin with a January start. The program combines management foundations, electives, specialization certificates, summer learning options, a capstone consulting project, international exchange options, and career support.

Executive MBA

An 18-month, part-time modular degree for experienced professionals and senior leaders. Eight six-day in-person modules combine study in Berlin and internationally, with a curriculum in leadership, strategy, finance, innovation, and organizational behavior.

Part-time MBA

A 24-month, English-language MBA for working professionals, combining 75% online learning with 25% in-person study across 14 residencies. Participants can continue working while applying new learning on the job.

Global Online MBA

A fully remote, English-language MBA for professionals with at least three years of postgraduate work experience. Students can complete it in 24 to 60 months and study general management, technology, innovation, and other business topics. The program awards ESMT Berlin’s triple-accredited MBA degree.

Master in Global Management

A 24-month, English-language, on-campus program in Berlin. Students develop general management expertise and gain practical experience through internships, social impact projects, consulting projects, electives, and international study options.

Master in Innovation & Entrepreneurship

A 24-month, English-language, on-campus program in Berlin for students who want to build ventures or drive innovation in established organizations. Students can focus on startup entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, or both, and customize up to 50% of program content. Practical learning includes venture-building programs, projects, internships, mentorship, and access to Berlin’s innovation ecosystem.

Master in Analytics & Artificial Intelligence

A 24-month, face-to-face master’s program in Berlin connecting business, data, and AI. Its English-language curriculum combines analytical training with business applications and responsible data use. Students can tailor their studies and apply learning through internships, analytics consulting projects, and research.

PhD Program

A structured 180 ECTS doctoral program with methodological and research coursework followed by dissertation work and a defense colloquium. Candidates receive supervision from ESMT professors and may access courses across Berlin’s scientific community. Participation is free of charge, and research-related costs may be supported.

Executive Education programs for individuals

Open-enrollment executive education for professionals, covering leadership, general management, AI and analytics, strategy, innovation, finance, and negotiation. Participants can choose face-to-face, online, blended, short, or multi-module programs and combine eligible programs toward the Postgraduate Diploma in Management.

Custom Executive Education Programs for Organizations

ESMT Berlin works with organizations to create customized executive development programs addressing business challenges, strategic goals, and development needs. Programs are co-created and may use classroom sessions, coaching, peer reflection, project work, consulting, and action learning, with ongoing feedback to refine the experience.

Postgraduate Diploma in Management

A university-level certificate recognizing professional development in leadership and management. Candidates complete at least 18 program days within 30 months by combining eligible open-enrollment executive education programs. Online courses and German- and English-language programs may count; no exam is required.

AI Executive Certificate

A flexible executive education pathway for individuals and organizations building capabilities for AI-driven transformation. Participants complete six program days within 18 consecutive months by selecting eligible programs covering AI technologies, leadership, strategy, implementation, governance, and related topics.

Category: AI Training Services

Data Strategy for Enterprise AI

A two-day, face-to-face executive program in English at the ESMT Berlin campus. It equips mid- to senior-level leaders with frameworks and tools for enterprise data foundations for AI, including data readiness, architecture, investment, ownership, operating models, trust, resilience, and regulatory evidence. Participants develop a draft data blueprint and action plan.

Category: AI Training Services

Senior Management Program

The Executive GameChanger is a two-module program delivered jointly by ESMT Berlin and SDA Bocconi for highly experienced executives. Across six face-to-face days in Berlin and Milan, participants address geopolitics, technology, strategy, innovation, risk, governance, and leadership.

General Management Seminar

A 15-day German-language executive education program for leaders with results responsibility who are preparing for broader management roles or have recently taken them on. Three modules cover strategic management, finance, innovation, technology, sustainability, and leadership. The seminar can qualify participants for the Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Management.

Führung für jüngere Führungskräfte

A five-day German-language blended seminar for high potentials preparing for their first leadership role and managers who have held one for up to two years. Participants reflect on their role and leadership strengths, learn to use different leadership styles, and practice employee conversations, motivation, development, and conflict resolution.

Category: Leadership Development Services

Leadership Psychology for Executives

A three-day, face-to-face executive education program in English exploring what drives people’s behavior and the human dynamics behind performance and change.

Category: Leadership Development Services

AI for Managers

A four-day, face-to-face executive education program for managers across functions. Participants explore AI concepts and use cases, business value and strategy, governance, and ethics through theoretical content and practical work.

Category: AI Training Services

Power, Politics, Persuasion

A four-day, face-to-face executive education program focused on mastering influence in complex organizations. It is part of ESMT Berlin’s executive negotiation offering for leaders and managers seeking practical negotiation skills.

Category: Leadership Development Services

Geopolitics for Business

A six-week, English-language online executive education program in ESMT Berlin’s strategy portfolio. It helps leaders understand how global shifts shape business and offers insights and strategies for anticipating and adapting to a changing environment.

Leading Change: Understanding and Shaping Transformations

A three-day, face-to-face executive leadership program for experienced leaders focused on understanding and shaping transformations and navigating organizational change.

Leading People and Teams

A four-day, face-to-face executive education program for experienced leaders focused on developing the skills, mindset, and behaviors of effective leadership. ESMT’s executive leadership approach combines practical tools with experiential learning.

Category: Leadership Development Services

Women in Power - Female Leadership

A three-day, face-to-face ESMT Berlin executive education program focused on female leadership, redefining power, and leading with impact.

Category: Leadership Development Services

Leadership under Pressure

A three-day, face-to-face executive education program that prepares participants to lead under pressure and develop greater calm and effectiveness in high-stakes moments.

Category: Leadership Development Services

Emerging Leaders Program

An eight-day, face-to-face executive education program preparing emerging talents for effective and responsible leadership. Participants explore psychological and ethical dimensions of leadership and strengthen communication skills and professional networks.

Category: Leadership Development Services

Leadership Foundations for New Managers

An in-person executive education program designed to develop essential skills for a first leadership role. ESMT presents it among programs for emerging leaders and describes its broader executive leadership approach as combining research-based insights with practical and experiential learning.

Category: Leadership Development Services

Executive Transition Program

A 24-day blended executive education program for leaders transitioning into general management. Its curriculum combines strategic management with humanities insights to broaden perspectives and enhance emotional intelligence. The program is delivered in English and qualifies participants for the Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Management.

High Performing Teams führen

A five-day blended executive education seminar focused on unlocking potential and strengthening team performance.

Category: Leadership Development Services

Young Physician Leaders

A five-day, face-to-face executive education program focused on effective leadership for healthcare institutions.

Category: Leadership Development Services

Leading in the Age of AI

A two-day, face-to-face executive education program for leaders navigating AI-driven workforce transformation. It focuses on the implications of AI for leadership, teams, and organizational transformation.

Category: AI Training Services

Implementing AI in the Organization

A three-day, face-to-face executive program for managers responsible for AI implementation. It addresses implementation frameworks, data and technology stacks, and change management, with attention to strategy, business cases, and realistic expectations.

Category: AI Training Services

AI Compliance and Governance

A two-day, face-to-face executive education program for decision-makers navigating AI regulation and risk. It covers risk frameworks, compliance strategies, and governance.

Category: AI Training Services

Innovation in the Age of AI

A two-day, face-to-face executive education program for innovation practitioners focused on AI-driven strategies to accelerate innovation, scale projects, and develop products and services.

Category: AI Training Services

Agentic AI Beyond the Hype

A four-week, live online executive education program for leaders driving AI adoption. With around five hours of learning per week, it covers AI agent use cases, organizational readiness, governance, and an implementation roadmap.

Category: AI Training Services

Solid Growth - Winning with Business Strategies

A three-day, face-to-face executive strategy program developing practical approaches to growth, strategic decision-making, and execution. Participants examine market dynamics, risk, resource trade-offs, operating models, KPIs, and stakeholder alignment through case studies and group discussion.

Leading Digital Transformation

A four-day blended executive education program in English focused on optimizing business through digital transformation and getting ahead of digital disruption.

Navigating Innovation in Times of Transformation

A three-day, face-to-face executive program and joint ESMT Berlin–HPI d.school certificate focused on creating transformational impact through innovation. It uses practical frameworks, hands-on tools, and peer exchange to help leaders identify opportunities and drive initiatives.

Finance for Executives

A three-day, face-to-face executive education program in English for managers and executives seeking financial fluency. Participants work with financial statements, KPIs, cash flow, valuation, investment appraisal, capital structures, and risk management through case-based learning and practical tools.

Social Impact Project

A five-week field project for students in ESMT master’s and MBA programs. Student teams work with nonprofit organizations, social enterprises, and mission-driven businesses on defined social-impact challenges, applying management expertise to organizational needs.

Responsible Leaders Fellowship

A fellowship enabling recent ESMT graduates to volunteer for up to six months, contributing pro bono management expertise to organizations addressing social challenges. Fellows gain practical experience and develop their understanding of responsible leadership.

Industry Immersion Program

A six-month, tuition-free initiative for young African mathematics graduates. Developed with academic, industry, and business partners, it combines academic modules taught pro bono by ESMT faculty with internships to support career preparation and employability.

Summer School

A five-day, English-language, in-person program for bachelor’s students and recent graduates. Interactive classes, business cases, and group work introduce management, leadership, and entrepreneurship. Participants receive a Management and Leadership Principles Certificate of participation; the program does not include ECTS credits.

ESMT Business Case Collection

A collection of more than 90 cases, each accompanied by a teaching note. ESMT Berlin distributes its cases through Harvard Business Publishing, Ivey Publishing, and The Case Centre. ESMT cases have received 14 awards in European case-writing competitions.