1 March 2020 was the official launch date of the Gründungsfabrik Rheingau, the joint project of Geisenheim University of Applied Sciences and EBS Universität, funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) through the EXIST programme. Read more about the challenges and goals.

Studying and working from home presents several challenges. 2020 showed this very clearly. Negative side effects such as back or neck pain quickly set in when people do not have ergonomic office furniture at their disposal. Our alumnus Luka Schlund founded the company, together with Lisa Rosa Bräutigam. With nuwo, employees have the possibility to set up their workplaces at home cost-effectively. Read more about it in this interview.

Who is better able to cope with the stress of the COVID pandemic? Alexander Götmann and Myriam Bechtoldt investigated this question in a longitudinal study over a period of 2 months. The key finding is that individuals with higher levels of dispositional mindfulness are more successful in coping with the crisis.

“How did COVID-19 impact M&A in the pharma industry?” We invited Simon Salzman, Senior Manager M&A at Boehringer Ingelheim to our MSc course on “Managing Mergers and Acquisitions”.

A team of three students from EBS Universität participated in the 67th Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) conference from 11 February to 14 February as one of two German teams. HNMUN is organised annually by Harvard University in Boston and offers around 3,300 international students insights into the functioning of the United Nations and the dynamics of international relations. Due to the Corona pandemic, the four-day event was held online for the first time.

Guest Lecture by Lucas Schmitt, TechQuartier on 5 February 2021 as part of the lecture “Managing Strategic Alliances and Mergers & Acquisitions” by Prof. Markus Kreutzer.

Dr. Hans Volckens and Jürgen Buchelt (both KPMG) spoke virtually on the topic of “The Future of Real Estate”.

Great to see our paper titled “Strategy Formation Across Organizational Boundaries: An Interorganizational Process Model”, co-authored with Erwin Hettich, from the University of St. Gallen, published as early view in British Journal of Management.

In an interview, EBS Alumnus Alexander Ditzel tells us all about the new start-up TripLegend, a provider of unique group travel opportunities. He founded TripLegend together with his brother Martin (also an EBS graduate) and Brian Ruhe (WHU graduate).

“How can incumbents successfully set up and orchestrate ecosystems?”

If you want to invest your money sustainably, you have a wide range of instruments to choose from nowadays. The larger the investment, the greater the opportunities to have an impact.

Just after one year as doctoral candidate and research assistant at the Chair of Strategic and International Management at EBS, Pia Neudert could secure one of the desired „Outstanding Reviewer“ awards of this year’s Academy of Management Annual Conference. The Strategic Management Division therefore appreciated her subject matter expertise and appreciative attitude towards the work of other management scholars.

From more than 170 applications for the WiWi-Talents programme, EBS Master’s student Lukas Feldhaus was one of 16 other outstanding students to receive an award at the beginning of this year.

The Corona pandemic made it almost impossible for EBS students to continue their practical activities as part of the Service Learning Programme. Students now engage with children and seniors mainly through indirect services in our partner institutions.

How long have social enterprises been around and what do they need right now? Why we might need zebras instead of unicorns.

Our clothes have often traveled further than we have. Who made them - and under what conditions - is difficult to trace. What can we do as consumers?

2020 was anything but an everyday year. Creativity in finding solutions, flexibility and a high dynamic in research and teaching have characterised the past year. While the Corona pandemic kept the world on tenterhooks, EBS Universität sought opportunities in the crisis and embraced the challenges.

A straight A in all exams - congratulations to EBS continuing education student Walter T. Ernst, who, together with the 11 other participants in the first cohort of the new General Management Programme (GMP), shows that 2020 also releases energies and ambitious study goals can be achieved. The 2020 cohort of the GMP is a very special first cohort, because in the “corona cohort,” professors and students prove how they rise above themselves in a crisis.

A team of researchers from EBS Universität (Myriam N. Bechtoldt & Alexander Götmann) and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (Ulf Moslener & W. Pieter Pauw) shed light on the micro (i.e. individual), meso (i.e. group) and macro (i.e. society) level factors that can contribute to higher adaptation engagement.

Many people want to eat healthily or reduce CO2 emissions. Why are social entrepreneurs still lone wolves?

Dr. Heiko Kirchhain wins the 3rd place of the 2020 gif Real Estate Research Award 2020 for his dissertation “The Impact of Geography and Exogenous Shocks on Real Estate Markets”. His tutor Prof. Jan Mutl is happy about the great news and congratulates Mr. Kirchhain for this outstanding achievement.

In the fifth edition of the magazine for transformation and turnaround “Return”, an new article by Professor Mattmüller and co-author Linda Rinke on the subject of employer branding in medium-sized companies appeared.

For the 2020 Best-Paper-Award “Innovation, (Corporate) Entrepreneurship and Transformation”, we received a new record of 56 submissions. From these 56 submissions, three finalists were selected to present their papers in an online event on 17 November 2020.

Last Wednesday, we had Gisbert Rühl, CEO of Klöckner, as a guest at Meet-the-Manager.

For the start of the winter semester 2020/21, 10 students from all faculties were offered a Deutschlandstipendium. The scholarship supports high-performing students. In addition to convincing grades, social commitment and special personal achievements are also considered when granting this scholarship. The scholarship holders are each supported with 300 euros per month, 50 percent of which is made up of financial support from the federal government and funds from private sponsors.

In this series we will be presenting start-ups founded by our EBS Alumni. EBS Graduate Sven Schondelmaier and his partner Sascha Dreschinski founded the creative management consultancy WHYAHEAD to support companies on their way to a more sustainable and social future. Learn more in this interview about Sven and Sascha and how they want to change the world.

Nora Markard and Emanuel Towfigh, both Editor-in-Chief, introduce new digital content of the German Law Journal in videos and podcasts.

Leading in times of crisis, agile management of projects and resources as well as mastering modern leadership approaches have developed into cross-industry core competencies and essential career development prerequisites. For decades, EBS University has been successful in providing extra-occupational coaching training, and is committed to expanding its offer for professionals in this important, growing and valuable discipline for strategic career planning.

Last Thursday, EBS Business School’s Meet-the-Manager series had Karl von Rohr as a guest.

For the 10th time on Thursday, October 8, 2020, EBS Law School said: “Welcome freshmen!”

Henrik Franke wins the 2020 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award. His supervisors Prof. H. Sebastian Heese (now North Carolina State University), and Prof. Dr. Kai Foerstl (EBS) are excited about the great news and congratulate Henrik wholeheartedly on this excellent achievement.

EBS doctoral students have to present their research at conferences in order to obtain their degree. But what happens if these no longer take place due to COVID-19? Julia Elspaß and Pia Neudert, representatives of mid-level faculty at EBS Business School, together with the broad support of the entire EBS community, organized an internal EBS conference for doctoral students – hard submission criteria, blind review procedures and intensive discussions included!

On Friday, September 25, 2020, Wolfgang Kubicki, Vice President of the German Bundestag and Deputy Federal Chairman of the FDP, gave a lecture at EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht in front of around 100 students and professors on the topic: “Defending freedom of opinion – for an open and fair debate culture”.

In this series, we present start-ups our EBS Alumni founded. EBS graduate Nicholas Hinrichsen is co-founder of the US-American company Clutch. He shares his exciting story with us in this interview!

In this series, we present start-ups our EBS Alumni founded. EBS graduate Maximilian Bockelbrink founded the start-up greek organics together with his partner William Varley to bring unique natural products from the heart of Greece to Germany and Austria. Learn more about Maximilian and William and their company in this interview.

What exactly is Emotional Intelligence? And is it essential for professional success?

In October 2020 the first academic certificate programme on “Digital Transformation” will start at EBS Executive School. As Academic Director of the programme, Prof. Dr. Fuchs discusses why something very special has been created here.

Policy interventions intended to fight COVID-19 have had a large impact on daily life and forced people to deal with several restrictions and challenges that were unprecedented in recent history.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Dombret: “Stable banks in challenging times - Contributions of Andreas Dombret at Deutsche Bundesbank 2010-2018”

The COVID-19 crisis and its effects will have far-reaching and yet unknown consequences. The media repeatedly took Andreas Heinecke’s Dialoghaus as an exemplary case during the past five months.

In this series, we present start-ups our EBS Alumni founded. Master in Management graduate Lilli Ebner-Stoll founded the start-up LISTO Guatemala to address the problem of chronic malnutrition among children in Guatemala. A great purpose! Learn more about Lilli and her company in this interview.

On Wednesday, 03.06.2020, punctually at 17:00 h, more than 100 participants watched the live stream opening of the “Gründungsfabrik Rheingau”, the joint project of the two local universities; Hochschule Geisenheim (HGU) and EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht.

Economic viability is the core objective when designing corporate solutions for sustainability management. On this new large field for the finance function of companies, there are very specific rules for employees in finance departments to follow. An interdisciplinary, practice-oriented team of lecturers sets future-oriented standards with the newly designed compact course of study “Corporate Sustainable Finance (CSF)”. Start of the extra-occupational programme with the CSF-Advisor (EBS) degree is 22 October 2020.

Karin Kreutzer and her co-authors Claus D. Jacobs (Universität Bern), Eero Vaara (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford) published the paper “Political Dynamics in Organizational Identity Breach and Reconstruction”.

The Faculty Council of the Faculty of Law has elected Prof. Ulrich Segna (50), professor of civil law, to head the Dean’s office. He succeeds party political expert Prof. Emanuel V. Towfigh on 1 July.

Ever since the metre-high, red crane was erected in the middle of Campus Schloss in Oestrich-Winkel it has been obvious to everyone that construction work has started. Here is an update on the progress from Dr Hofer, Managing Director of EBS Universität.

Recognising opportunities in times of change and achieving success through new strategies for action is the focus of Andrea Badura, Professor of Capital Goods Marketing, Technical Sales and Innovation Management at HAW Landshut. As Senior Lecturer at EBS Executive School – currently in the new certificate programme Strategic Management and Business Model Innovation – she places agile methods and the active involvement of employees in strategic processes at the centre of her teaching and research activities.

Difficult times need a strong team spirit. Students at EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht are also very aware of this and are finding ways to help people even in times of contact restrictions.

Tom Orben, doctoral student at the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Group was nominated for the PhD Paper Prize of the Strategic Management Society (SMS) with his proposal “Distance Matters – How Proximity Affects Innovation Performance of Ventures in CVC Investment-Relationships”.

Completely new thinking is put into extra-occupational learning in times of Corona. In the area between personal life planning and training induced by employers, a completely new approach to lifelong learning is currently being developed.

Women and men network differently - especially during the Corona crisis. Marjo-Riitta Diehl, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources, talks in an interview about gender differences in networking.

Prof. Dr. Ronald Gleich and Dr. Christoph Munck explain the roles the controllers are playing in the crisis management of the current corona crisis.

Prof. Nicola Pless is selected to visit EBS Business School as Distinguished Visiting Professor in 2020. In her role she will initiate and engage in joint research and teaching with colleagues from the Business School.

Health Care Management Institute researches the economic aspects of discharge management regulation in hospitals.

The energy transition will lead to a shift away from fossil fuels to a zero-carbon energy system. The study “Different Shades of Green: Global Oil and Gas Companies and Renewable Energy”explores management commitment to investing in the renewable energy sector among global oil and gas firms.

In the midst of the disruptive times that the German economy and society has been experiencing for some weeks now, the Real Estate Department of the EBS Executive School is launching its intensive study programmes “Immobilienökonomie” and “Immobilien-Projektentwicklung”.

Tarik El Bouyahyani is a doctoral student at EBS Universität and founded the app “LuBu”, short for LunchBuddies, together with his sister Luisa. The app allows people to connect with each other for lunch or a short coffee break together. Especially in times of #physicaldistancing and home office it is more important than ever to stay in touch. That’s why Tarik and Luisa are now bringing users onto the digital table: Now colleagues can meet easily and spontaneously via video call for an afternoon coffee.

Yesterday the world changed, today we have to reinvent ourselves and tomorrow everything will be different - a recent EBS study highlights the digital transformation of teaching.

Prof. Dr. Katrin Burmeister-Lamp and her PhD student Tom Orben, MSc show the effects of the corona crisis on the investment behavior in start-ups.

New EBS research about employee satisfaction in family firms has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Family Business Strategy.

Empowering professionals in times of Social Distancing: Is it possible to successfully implement practice-oriented seminar work for professionals under the current disruptive circumstances? The EBS Executive School says a resounding “Yes”!

Prof. Dr. Ralph Tunder, Vivienne Dierkes and Pavel Vitis examine the strategies for combating the COVID 19 pandemic and give a first outlook on the basic criteria for successfully containing the spread of the virus.

“Empowering You in Times of Social Distancing”: How do EBS members deal with the current situation? Julia Münzinger, Head of Digitalization at EBS Universität, on how the home office can be used productively even in these uncertain times.

“Empowering You in Times of Social Distancing”: How do EBS members deal with the current situation? Law student Luca Manns reports how he experienced the past weeks during the corona crisis.

“Empowering You in Times of Social Distancing”: How do EBS members deal with the current situation? Ann-Sophie Schlick describes her changed tasks as a student representative.

“Empowering You in Times of Social Distancing”: How do EBS members deal with the current situation? Prof. Rasa Karapandza, PhD, shows how he helps his students with his own very personal story.

Interview in TV news broadcast “Hessenschau”

“Empowering You in Times of Social Distancing”: How do EBS members deal with the current situation? Marie-Luise Retzmann, head of the coaching programme for students at EBS Universität, gives tips to counteract the feeling of loneliness.

Prof. Dr Julia Hartmann evaluates the effects of Coronavirus on supply chains.

“Empowering You in Times of Social Distancing”: How do EBS members deal with the current situation? Prof. Dr. Julia Hartmann gives tips on working from home with your kids around.

Prof. Dr Julia Hartmann, Professor for Sustainable Supply Chain Management at EBS Universität, addressed this current issue.

LeasingMarkt.de and EBS Universität present leasing year review.

More than 100 high school students from Hesse with one clear goal: to develop their own business idea. This is to be made possible within the context of business@school, the educational initiative of the Boston Consulting Group. EBS Universität supports the initiative as a partner and provides three coaches: Tanja Schader, Christof Glaser and Thomas Alt report on their first impressions.

EBS alumnus José Miguel Rodriguez Damiani and his partner Maximilian Ott have now made it into the stationary retail trade with their cocoa powder Macakao. Startup Valley Magazine needed to know more.

From February 26 to 28, Prof. Dr. Mattmüller and his team of the Department of Strategic Marketing once again visited together with 30 of their master students exciting companies in the context of the 25th field trip ‘Marketing Consulting Field Study’ (MaEx). This year the field trip took place in February and its destination was Munich.

Field study and lab experiment on the use of ABS in the mobility context.

36 young climate activists – one year of planning – the mission: Travelling together with a sailing ship across the Atlantic to the World Climate Conference in Santiago de Chile. Find out why the journey was continued despite a short-term relocation and why Clara now wants to sail back to Europe with the sailing ship!

The paper “Why women build less effective networks than men: The role of structural exclusion and personal hesitation” from Dr Elena Vastert, Prof. Marjo-Riitta Diehl and Prof. Dr Karin Kreutzer is nominated for the “Paper of the Year 2019 Award” by the academic journal Human Relations. We are very excited and keep our fingers crossed!

Laura Turrini and her co-authors Maria Besiou, Dominik Papies and Joern Meissner puplished the paper “The role of operational expenditures and misalignments in fundraising for international humanitarian aid”.

Talks and practical tips from EBS professors in Wiesbaden City Hall

Interview with Hanna Hölscher – BSc in Business Administration student and one of the captains of the EBS cheerleading team – about the student’s sports event WHU Euromasters.

At this year’s annual meeting of the German Brands Association in Berlin, the 10th anniversary of the Markenakademie was celebrated in addition to various highly interesting lectures on the subject of “Brand 2030: New Thinking”.

Last Monday, 11.11.2019, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Angelika Nußberger M.A., Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), gave a lecture to students and professors on “The case law on the European Convention on Human Rights in the political context. A review after nine years ‘on the bench’”. She spoke about the various aspects of the ECHR, such as the impact of key decisions on national legal systems and the challenges and priorities of her career.

Once again, Prof. Dr Mattmüller and his team of the Department of Strategic Marketing together with their master students visited exciting companies in the context of the 24th field trip “Marketing Consulting Field Study (MaEx)”.

Together with two other participants, our master students Jaskirat Singh and Monica Zhang, took part in the Climathon 2019 competition held by the City of Mannheim. A great result: They won the competition! Congratulations on this great achievement!

About the 6th EBS Law Congress at EBS Universität

On October 30, EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht invited the scholarship holders to hand over their certificates.

You will experience all the goosebumps moments in this video!

Yesterday evening focused on the topic “Democracy at risk?”.

Through the “Scholarship for distinguished female students of EBS Law and Business School”, two female students - of both, the business and law faculty - had the opportunity to participate in the first WunderNova Frauen Sommer- und Thinkfest on 25 May 2019 in Berlin. An inspiring and varied program offered insights into female leadership in politics, sports, science and business. At keynotes, panels and a relaxed get-together, the students exchanged ideas with speakers and other participants about career and entrepreneurship.

In our series #EBSInternViews, we provide insights into the internships our students have completed during their semester break. Lena Hesseldieck talks about her time at KPMG – a leading auditing and consulting firm in Germany.

Professor Will on the possibly wrong formation of the Hessian state parliament in the “Hessenschau”.

In our series #EBSInternViews, we provide insights into the internships our students have completed during their semester break. Martin Stöckel talks about his experiences at UniCredit in Munich, a German credit institution.

In this series, we present start-ups our EBS Alumni founded. MBA graduate José Miguel Rodriguez Damiani and his partner Maximilian Ott founded the start-up Kallpa Superfoods, which distributes the product Macakao. Macakao? Learn more about the product in this interview. We can reveal: it will be delicious!

What salary developments and trends are emerging within project management?

Professor Will as an expert for the Hessian electoral law reform.

On 29 and 30 August, the international law firm DLA Piper held its first English-language conference on German labour law at the premises of the EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht on the campus in Oestrich-Winkel.

Family businesses often have the reputation of being rather bland and out of date. However, the fact that family businesses are modern and innovative was demonstrated by the Innovation Dialogue of the Strascheg Institute for Innovation, Transformation & Entrepreneurship (SITE) at EBS University on September 18, 2019.

Last Thursday, University President Prof. Dr. Markus Ogorek welcomed the Hessian State Minister for Digital Strategy and Development, Prof. Dr. Kristina Sinemus, to the campus of EBS Universität in Oestrich-Winkel.

Our #EBSInternViews series provides insights into the internships our students have completed during their semester break. Maria Bongartz talks about her internship at the US law firm Latham & Watkins.

EBS Student Jan Keesen wins with his Master Thesis “Populism and Public Choice Theory” the SRH - EBS Social Impact Award 2019

25-year-old EBS student Clara von Glasow, representing the Klimadelegation e.V. organisation, will travel together with 25 other young people on a sailing ship to Santiago de Chile to attend the 25th UN Climate Change Conference.

Legal Tribune Online (LTO), the largest German online magazine for lawyers and one of the most widely read digital specialist media, helps high school graduates interested in law in their search for the best law faculty in Germany with their own ranking. The EBS Law School in Wiesbaden was ranked fifth out of 40 universities and colleges surveyed.

Jan Hendrik Lukowski, doctoral candidate at the Real Estate Management Institute of EBS Universität, won the “Best PhD Paper Award 2019”. Hearty congratulations from Prof. Kerstin Hennig, Professor of Real Estate and Head of EBS Real Estate Management Institute (REMI), and the entire EBS Universität.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Martin Will about the planned reform of the highly controversial law on road maintenance contributions.

At the end of June, Prof. Kerstin Hennig, head of the Real Estate Management Institute, together with two doctoral students, took part in the annual international forum of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) in Milan, at the renowned Università Bocconi.

More than 11,000 litres of fresh, cooled drinking water were used since November 2018 at EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht in Oestrich-Winkel and Wiesbaden.

Start-up as corporate strategy - opportunities, success factors and control options

On Thursday, June 27, 2019, the German lawyer and university professor Prof. Dr. iur. Stefan Muckel received an honorary doctorate from the EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht for his services to academic research and teaching. The certificate was presented by Prof. Emanuel V. Towfigh, Dean of EBS Law School.

Interview with Jaskirat Singh, Master in Management student at EBS Business School and co-founder of “Plant Your Air”.

Entrepreneurs and personalities from various sectors regularly visit EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht to share their experiences with the students. Last Thursday, University President Markus Ogorek welcomed Prof. Dr. Claus Hipp, one of Germany’s most prominent and influential business personalities, at Schloss Reichartshausen in Oestrich-Winkel in front of around 100 students and lecturers.

Students present their results at the company headquarter in Essen and are given an glimpse behind the scenes.

Pace points, pitch, credit points and curriculum: Welcome to the academic word-jungle! Every year, several hundred thousand students flock to German universities. They face the uncertainty of their studies and questions regarding student life: What exactly is my study programme about? How can I imagine the next three years?

For 27 years, the L’Oréal Brandstorm Business Game brings together ambitious students from all over the world.

Last week, at a festive ceremony, the degree certificates were presented to the successful graduates of EBS Universität.

Mother’s Day was founded more than a hundred years ago by the American Anna Jarvis. But is Mother’s Day still up to date?

Three internships are compulsory during law studies in Hesse - one at a court and two of the students’ own choice. Due to EBS Law School’s strong focus on business law, most EBS students find themselves ultimately working in international business law firms. Like Luca Manns, 6th trimester student. In an interview he talks about his time in the Frankfurt office of the international corporate law firm Latham & Watkins LLP.

Federal Cabinet passes the draft bill for the implementation of the Second Shareholders’ Rights Directive (ARUG II).

Creating synergies, stimulating interdisciplinary exchange: The Doctoral Research Forum at EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, which is organised annually by the academic faculty and held for the third time this year, networks doctoral students from EBS Law School and EBS Business School.

How do you make it to the top of a company? This is the question thousands of young executives are asking themselves. In its studythe CEO League, the IG Bank evaluated the educational pathways of German top management.

On Wednesday, 10 April 2019, three student teams from Rheingauschule and Hansenberg boarding school from Geisenheim presented their business plans, with which they are taking part in the German Founder Prize for Students.

Language of the event: German

University of California Berkeley Extension will be joining EBS at Open Day this Saturday!

Prof. Dr. Julia Hartmann participated in the future laboratory Fair Globalisation of the party Bündnis 90 Die Grünen in the Paul-Löbe-Haus of the German Bundestag in Berlin on 20 March 2019.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Martin Will and his research assistant Benedikt Quarch, M.A., LL.B. are responsible for a change in the law.

EBS Business School and the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association, a not-for-profit organization recognized worldwide as a leader in alternative investment education, have formed a new academic partnership.

The study on gender and origin effects in legal exams published in 2018 by Prof. Dr. Emanuel V. Towfigh, Dean of EBS Law School, together with Andreas Glöckner of the Fernuniversität Hagen and Christian Traxler of the Hertie School of Governance on behalf of the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Justice, draws attention in the Berlin Senate Administration.

Warmest congratulations to Marco for this great honor!

Our MBA students visited the Amazon logistics center in Koblenz to learn not only about the processes, but also about the numerous career opportunities and leadership that Amazon offers.

Digitalisation is changing the way we work. Employees need to adapt to lifelong learning in order to keep pace with change. In this context, Professor Gleich was interviewed about continuing vocational training by Radio Regenbogen.

Economic and financial knowledge plays a major role in today’s world. Prof. Dr. Jan-Christoph Rülke discusses important questions with students.

University means creativity, community and teamwork. But sometimes university can also mean studying a lot for exams. During this time, the best thing you can do is to take a creative break from studying to free your mind from fears and facts.

The recent study “The glass cliff myth? Evidence from Germany and the UK” by Prof. Dr. Myriam Bechtoldt, Christina Bannier and Björn Rock, published in The Leadership Quarterly, provides new insights into the discussion on women and leadership. The findings are questioning the so-called “glass cliff” phenomenon.

On 29 March 2019 the 20th Real Estate Congress will take place. Our ambition is to become one of the major events within the real estate sector and to organise an extraordinary day for you!

What makes studying at EBS Universität so special? What can I do with it in the future? And what else can a student at EBS Universität experience outside the lecture rooms? Students found answers to these and other questions last week at the information events “Discover Law” and “Discover Business” at EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht.

Will a stay abroad help me in my professional development? Do I lose too much time? Law students all over Germany struggle with these and other questions as most law faculties do not provide for a semester abroad. EBS Universität und Wirtschaft students spend their seventh semester as scheduled at one of the around 90 partner universities. Last week, students informed their fellow classmates about their time abroad at the Exchange Evening.

A team of 17 students from EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht attended the 65th session of the Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) from 14 February to 17 February. The HNMUN is organized annually by the Harvard University in Boston and offers around 3,300 international students insight into how the United Nations functions and the dynamics of international relations.

Prof. Dr Karin Kreutzer has analysed the reasons for gender-specific differences in the structure of professional networks.

The federal and state governments are about to reach an agreement on the “Digital Pact for Schools”. The Conciliation Committee of the Bundestag and Bundesrat will meet on the evening of 20 February 2019. In this context, Professor Will was interviewed on the constitutional background of the conflict over the Digital Pact by NDR-Info and WDR 5 .

In Germany, approximately 11,000 patients are currently waiting for a donor organ because their own organs no longer function properly due to life-threatening diseases or accidents. This is why the decision to donate an organ is so vital. Students of the “Studenten helfen” initiative at the EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht therefore want to raise awareness for this vital topic.

With effect from 1 February 2019, Dr. Dorothée Hofer will assume the position of second managing director at EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht.

A seventeen-member delegation of students from EBS Universität will participate in the world’s largest simulation of the United Nations from 14 to 17 February 2019.

What’s it like to live abroad? What cultural differences will I encounter during my semester abroad? And what does everyday life look like at another university? Exchange students gave their fellow German students answers to all these questions at the “Study Abroad Fair” on November 21 in the Kiep Center of the Schloss Campus. This fair has been held annually since 2012. They presented their home university at numerous, very creatively decorated stands. This gave the German students the opportunity to get some idea of the partner universities and makes choosing the university for their own semester abroad a great deal easier.

On 4 December 2018, the third annual conference of the M&A Institute of EBS Universität took place at the offices of Linklaters LLP in Frankfurt am Main.

EBS experts in dialogue: Professor Will was interviewed on hessenschau.de on the subject of the Digital Pact.

EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht addresses the growing social challenges with the newly founded EBS Impact Institute. From an interdisciplinary perspective, professors will examine how individuals and organizations can provide social added value.

Beck-Verlag has published a new textbook on the areas of special administrative law relevant to exams with the participation of EBS Law School.

More than 40 international students from all six continents have enrolled for their “EBS Law Term” at EBS Law School to study Transnational Commercial Law in Wiesbaden for a term in English.

Federal Economic and Energy Affairs Minister Peter Altmaier spoke to some 250 students and guests of the EBS Universität on “The present state of the social market economy”. Following the visits of FDP Chairman Christian Lindner and Deputy SPD Chairman Thorsten-Schäfer Gümbel to the EBS, the guests now had the opportunity to discuss the CDU’s economic concept.

On 8 October 2018, Prof. Dr. Dr. Martin Will was interviewed by hr-iNFO on the constitutional reform in Hesse.

No more distractions!

In what way do I need to change myself in order to meet today’s career requirements? And how does a company need to adapt itself to present-day change to ensure it is not overtaken by the latest trends? These are questions which the student organisers of this year’s EBS Symposium asked themselves. The title they gave the Economic Congress held for the 29th time on the EBS Castle Campus was “Embrace the Change!”

The Berufsverband Deutscher Markt- und Sozialforscher e.V. (BVM) (German Market and Social Research Association) has elected EBS Professor Franziska Metz as Young Researcher of the Year 2018. Her dissertation “The Journey and the Reward: A Longitudinal Study of Value Generation in Mass Customization Toolkits” convinced the jurors. The award was presented at the 53rd Congress of German Market Research in Hamburg.

A sensational, first-time EBS module to mark the beginning of the semester in August: the EBS Onboarding Project. In the first weeks of their bachelor’s degree, around 100 students in eleven teams will be developing concepts for the successful introduction of autonomous driving in Germany. This will not only give them the opportunity to get to know the university, but they can also establish initial contacts with experts from the automotive industry.

The winners of the 27th round of the WiWi Talent Programme have been announced. This year, two of the 17 most talented students are from the EBS Universität.

The Hessen State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts has appointed Dr. Kerstin Hennig, head of the EBS Real Estate Management Institute (REMI), as honorary professor. She is now EBS Professor for Real Estate Management.

Congratulations to our graduating doctoral students, Ms Susanne Hügel and Mr Philipp Kremer, who successfully held their defenses to obtain their doctoral degree.

You think you can only ‘dîner en blanc’ in Paris? As the song goes: anything Paris can do, Wiesbaden can do better! In June, EBS University hosted a cosy picnic on the bowling green of the Kurhaus, based on the popular “White Dinner” event format, and provided a variety of refreshments in high summer temperatures.

In January of this year, EBS Universität’s shareholder SRH announced the project “Share your Good Fortune”. SRH would like to support its employees’ social commitment in the long term. Among others, Carmen Grahn applied for financial support for “her” project in Namibia. She sponsors a little girl there and was actively engaged in funding a laptop and projector for training purposes as well as organising film shows for the entire village.

At the end of the summer month of June, the EBS Real Estate Management Institute team set off for England to attend the ERES Conference.

EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht once again convinced in the Eduniversal Best Masters Ranking 2018 with its consecutive study programmes. EBS Master in Finance came first in the “Financial Markets” category in Germany and 21st in the world.

This event drew large crowds: despite very warm summer temperatures, around 120 applicants, parents and interested parties attended the Law School to inform themselves about the degree programmes, the admission procedure and the various financing options. The booths of the EBS partner law firms were particularly popular.

For 100 students, the topic at Global Day was a fairer world order

In May, under the heading “Together into the Future”, the town of Oestrich-Winkel, supported by the EBS Universität, organised their first economic forum. It offers local companies, the city and university experts the opportunity to network and exchange ideas on economic topics. In his presentation on the opportunities of online marketing, EBS Professor Dr. Arne Buchwald showed how medium-sized companies can hold their own against large companies.

Dr. Tobias Schäfers is joining Copenhagen Business School (CBS) as an Associate Professor of Marketing in September 2018. Dr. Schäfers has received his PhD degree at EBS University of Business and Law under supervision of Professor Dr. Roland Mattmüller (Chair of Stategic Marketing).

The second Doctoral Research Forum, under the motto “We connect business and law”, took place at the EBS Universität in May. At this cross-faculty event, doctoral students presented their projects and engaged in discussions with faculty members and company representatives. Around 50 participants came to find out about the young scientists’ research topics. And these were wide-ranging.

Lawyer? Entrepreneur? Or rather a stock market analyst? Choosing a career after leaving school is often not easy. At the Open Day, which traditionally takes place in April, the EBS Universität offers support in making that crucial decision. Whatever the outcome, one thing is very important at the EBS: after their studies, EBS graduates should be able to actively shape the world of tomorrow - for the benefit of all. Under the motto “Whatever the future brings, learn to shape it”, prospective students and interested parties were once again able to inform themselves about this year’s courses of study at the University.

Which features do town, market and office of the future need? And how much digitisation makes sense at all? This was the question the real estate experts were discussing at the 19th EBS Real Estate Congress under the title “Smart Real Estate: the future of real estate”. On April 20, 2018, the who’s who of the real estate business met at the EBS Universität to discuss every aspect of the topic intelligent systems in the real estate sector.

Thanks to “Very Inspirational People”, top managers find their mission in life during the EBS Workshop.

At the beginning of this year, the EBS Universität published its Values Study for 2017, together with the Values Foundation and with the support of the Stiftung Deutsche Sporthilfe (German Sports Aid Foundation). Researchers at the Strascheg Institute for Innovation, Transformation & Entrepreneurship (SITE) investigated and compared the personal values of athletes and founders. It emerged that both groups have a similar set of values but can still learn from each other in crucial areas.

Together with Dr. Andreas Gintschel of Prime Capital, Dr. Margherita Giuzio and Prof. Sandra Paterlini examined the components of private debt performance.

Christoph Wolf has been an assistant professor of criminal law and criminal procedure law at EBS University since May 2017. In the interview, he explains why, in most cases, ignorance of law does not protect against punishment and what is the secret behind EBS law graduates’ outstanding exam results.

Professor Daniel M. Klocke has held the Chair of Civil Law, Commercial Law, Labour Law and Legal Theory at EBS University since 1 September 2017. In this interview, he talks about the consequences of even the smallest differences in German and European contract law and about the special features of the EBS law study programme.

EBS Professor Sven Henkel is attending the WEF Conference in Davos from January 23 to 25. During the event “Frankfurt meets Davos”, he will be presenting the newly founded EBS Insight Mobility Institute in the Steigenberger Hotel Belvédère.

For many years, the Chair of Strategic Marketing under the leadership of EBS Professor Roland Mattmüller has had the opportunity to propose talented students for the WiWi Talents Top-Flight Academic Programme, and a number of EBS students have already been accepted for the Programme. This year, student Eileen Beuchel was successful: strong teamwork ability, a problem-oriented mind-set and excellent presentation skills form the basis of the recommendation to be admitted to the talent programme of WiWi-Talents.

The Department of Finance, Accounting, Taxation and Real Estate welcomes the new Assistant Professor of Finance Prof. Aya Nasreddine, PhD.

The EBS Universität ranks seventh among the best universities for Business Administration in Germany. The WirtschaftsWoche University Ranking 2018 concludes in its recently published document. Over 500 German company recruiters provided information about which universities they prefer to recruit graduates from and which criteria are particularly important for them.

The Bible Museum in Frankfurt am Main has been planning an elaborate exhibition of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls of Qumran for several years. However, as neither the Federal Government nor the State of Hesse were willing to guarantee returning them to Israel, the German public will most likely never set eyes on the acclaimed bible texts.

Prof. Rasa Karapandza was able to reunite top founders, investors and tough leaders from the FinTech arena so that EBS students can develop theoretical and practical understanding of the forces transforming financial services globally. Students will learn about many entrepreneurial challenges, demystifying social media buzz words like blockchain, AI, roboadvisory and Fintech in general and will be learning from real cases and from FinTech leaders that are transforming the world of financial services.

What is the key to significant improvement in designer performance? Do intercultural relations at work promote creativity? And what can knowledge-based networks do to promote inventors’ innovativeness? These are the topics researchers all over the world are addressing. On November 23 they were rewarded for their work with the Best Paper Award “Innovation Management” of EBS Business School’s Strascheg Institute for Innovation, Transformation & Entrepreneurship (SITE).

Last week, the Centre for Higher Education (CHE) published the results of the university ranking of Master’s programmes in economic sciences: The EBS Universität is in the top group of German universities in twelve out of 13 categories.

The EBS M&A Institute’s second annual conference took place in Wiesbaden’s Kurhaus on December 6, 2017. Participants from the M&A departments of companies, legal consultants and investment banking came together to discuss current developments in the field of M&A: Shareholder Activism, Political Intervention, Tech Trends & Investments as well as the topic Legal Tech.

Prof. Paterlini has been invited to participate with her students at the European Rotman European Trading Competition as the representative for Germany. The Rotman European Trading Competition (RETC) is a three-day event built with the cooperation between the LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

The first joint workshop with the innovative market leader for the improvement of drinking water BRITA, the new cooperation partner of the chair, took place on September 20, 2017.

The so-called Service Learning Projects are an integral part of the study programme at the EBS: students take active responsibility for the common good and consolidate learning content by helping in social institutions. This was now the seventh time bachelor students have organised a smartphone workshop for seniors and other residents in the multi-generation house in Oestrich-Winkel. Florian Trabert reports on the participants’ reactions and learning methods when faced with the “great unknown” smartphone.

On November 8, EBS exchange students made the “Study Abroad Fair” in the Kiep Center on Campus Schloss come alive: the various stands offered the German students insight into life at EBS partner universities. With films and culinary specialities, the proud country representatives provided cultural insight into their home countries. This certainly gave the students a better sense of which of the many universities presented on this occasion to choose for their semester abroad.

Which role does the classic car dealer play in the digital age? How will we buy cars in the future? And how will the Internet change the potential buyer’s information behaviour? These and other key issues were examined by six student teams from the EBS during a consulting field study conducted together with Mercedes-Benz Consulting.

On November 6, during the Wiesbaden Real Estate Talks, the Deutsche Anlage-Immobilien Verbund (DAVE) and the EBS Real Estate Management Institute for the second time awarded the 1,500 euro advancement prize to a top student. Prize winner this year is Daniel Kremer (31), currently Associate Director in Fund Management at Triuva.

Last weekend, the EBS University football team won a great victory at the WHU Euromasters 2017: led by Captains David Fenkel and Alexander Kronfli, the star kickers won the men’s football tournament final 3:0 against the team from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

On November 7, residents of the refugee house of the Malteser e.V. in Lorch celebrated together with voluntary workers and EBS students.

Professional demands made on lawyers are changing rapidly. Nowadays, an increasing number of lawyers are working for companies, such as in the IT sector, rather than in law offices. This raises the question: what challenges are lawyers facing now and in the future in terms of increasingly ubiquitous technological progress and digitalisation?

To find this out, a group of 26 EBS students organised the fourth EBS Law Congress on October 26 and 27. Approximately 270 guests attended presentations and panel discussions in the overall context of “The law of new technologies”. The speakers came from companies such as SAP and Google, as well representatives from Hesse’s Central Agency for Combatting Cybercrime.

In the interview, student organisers Zoe Kuhzarani and Tobias Schwalm talk about the one-year preparation period and their personal highlights.

The Bachelor Introduction Week for the first year undergraduates took place in late summer atmosphere during the last week in August, on the EBS Business School’s Schloss Campus in Oestrich-Winkel. Apart from workshops, inauguration events and a Campus Race, the car manufacturer Tesla brought along some of their cars and gave some insight into their sales strategy. The town’s mayor, Michael Heil, also welcomed the new students.

In the interview, Katharina Albrecht and Marc-Philippe Leitzbach talk about their first impressions of the University.

The EBS opened its gates to film enthusiasts on August 4 and 5. The weather and the backdrop were perfect: surrounded by vineyards, the visitors of the short film festival “Shorts at Moonlight” first of all enjoyed live music accompanied by tarte flambée and a good glass of wine before the programme of short film highlights began as darkness fell.

Every week a “team meeting”, every week a “head meeting”. This is what it looked like for Tim Kleinpeter last year. Tim was chairman of the recent 28th EBS Symposium , that was held this year under the banner of “The next big thing”. Together with chairwoman Beke Flathmann and the entire team of 60 students, he was responsible for the organisation of an economic congress with 750 delegates from all over the world and renowned speakers such as Professor Andreas Dombret (Deutsche Bundesbank) or Professor Burkhard Schwenker (Roland Berger).

On September 18, members of the Rotary Club Wiesbaden-Rheingau enjoyed an exclusive tour around Schloss Reichartshausen in Oestrich-Winkel.

This is the fifth time the EBS Law School has welcomed international students at the beginning of the annual exchange programme EBS Law Term. From now until December, almost 50 participants from all over the world can familiarise themselves in four modules with the topic international commercial law.

On September 8, the EBS Law School said “Welcome” for the seventh time: The faculty welcomed their new students at the traditional enrolment ceremony. The future lawyers proudly entered their matriculation numbers into the “Golden Book” of the faculty in the Kiep Center of the Campus Schloss, thus officially beginning their study programme at the Law School, which was founded in 2010.

The paper “Asset allocation strategies based on penalized quantile regression” has been published in the journal Computational Management Science.

As a collaboration from the Chair of Financial Econometrics & Prime Capital, a paper explaining the drivers of private debt components has now been accepted for publication in the Journal of Alternative Investments.

For the second time in succession, EBS Professor Marjo-Riitta Diehl has been honoured with the “Best Reviewer Award” of the Journal of Organizational Behavior (JOB).

The EBS Moot Court took place for the first time at the Wiesbaden District Court on 14 July 2017. Eighteen students were given the chance to resolve fictitious legal disputes in court and conduct a trial before experienced judges. Also on board: EBS’ partner law firm Pöllath + Partners, specialists in corporate law, with two representatives coming specially from Munich to prepare the future lawyers for their day in court.

The EBS Real Estate Management Institute (REMI) and the association IMMOEBS e.V. held a joint event on July 18 in Hamburg under the heading “PropTech Boom - has the revolution been called off?”.

Two summer nights, seven short films and a prize-giving ceremony: the EBS will be opening its doors to film enthusiasts on August 4 and 5.

How do you wow a group of young men aged 18 to 25 with hygiene products? Three EBS students had the bright idea: with the catchphrase “Pimp my Sex Life”, they developed a range of intimate hygiene products for men, including an intimate hygiene foam, which can double up as shaving foam, and an intimate aftershave with a stimulating aroma and taste. Thanks to this idea, the team “The Best of Us” marched effortlessly through both national and European finals, landing directly at the international finals of the Marketing Challenge.

Hierarchies were hung up with the jackets: at 36 degrees in the shade, about fifty students discussed for all they were worth with fifty top managers, a company was founded and a sudden summer storm triggered spontaneous team-building.

Let’s get started: twelve young talents met “their” companies in the course of the initiative “Executive Practica”. The project, launched by the IHK Wiesbaden and the four local Rotary Clubs, supports particularly talented scholars in their choice of jobs and study programmes. For two to four weeks, the recent school graduates accompany executives in their everyday work. The twelve senior professionals met their future interns in EBS’ inspiring atmosphere for the first get-together.

At the Future Communication Conference on Thursday, June 22, 2017, 50 students and 50 senior managers (for instance, from TUI, Rewe, Porsche and DHL) strive to find communication strategies for tomorrow’s world of work. On the EBS Universität campus in Oestrich-WInkel, they work together in open-space workshops, from 10:00 to 17:30h, to find common solutions.

EBS Professor Arne Buchwald speaks as an expert for digital transformation to the participants at the 27th European Youth Parliament

Healthcare specialists from the Hessian State Parliament discuss the key challenges facing health care at the EBS Health Care Day

Prof. Sandra Paterlini and her excellent research team present their current research at the CMS in Bergamo

Our finance Professor Raša Karapandža was invited by the U.S. Congressman David Schweikert to present his ideas on Blockchain (concept employed on Bitcoins) and Fintech.

Professor Raša Karapandža spent two days in the Middle East, as an invited speaker and as a part of the German delegation.

Illiquid assets have moved into the focus of investors. In cooperation with Prime Capital AG the Chair of Financial Econometrics and Asset Management has set up conference on these special assets.

Marketingexcursion 2016: Munich in 3 Days

As internationally renowned Business School that regularly achieves excellent research results, on September 21, EBS hosted this year’s conference of the Strategic Management Society Rhine-Main subsidiary, a global teaching and research community with almost 3,000 members. A broad audience of about 30 specialists from research and practice used this forum in order to exchange on the topic “Coordination of Modern Forms of Organizational Work”.

Conference submission on “Understanding the Co-Creation of Value Emerging from the Collaboration between IT Consulting Firms and their Customers” accepted at renowned International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)

The Master in Automotive Management has proofed a great success. Under the re-accreditation, it has voluntarily undergone a particularly intense assessment by the quality and accreditations agency FIBAA (Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation) and received the very rare and, accordingly, highly coveted FIBAA premium quality label.

Prof. Dr. Emanuel Towfigh, the owner of the Chair of Public Law, Empirical Legal Research and Law & Economics at EBS Law School published a new article:

Do direct-democratic procedures lead to higher acceptance than political representation?

at the German Finals of the L’Oréal Brandstorm Marketing Challenge

Prof. Sandra Paterlini was invited to speak at CRoNoS

On behalf of FACT, Prof. Sandra Paterlini, Chair of Financial Econometrics and Asset Management invited to the guest lecture held by Vincent Weber, Head of Research of Prime Capital AG

On December 18th, 2015, new research cooperation between EBS Chair of Corporate Finance and Higher Education Finance and Zhejiang University Center for Internet and Financial Innovation (CIFI)

New research cooperation between EBS Chair of Corporate Finance and Higher Education Finance and Zhejiang University Center for Internet and Financial Innovation (CIFI)

Invitation to the 9th International Conference and Financial Econometrics (CFE 2015), 12-14 December 2015, London.

Prof. Sandra Paterlini Guest Editor

Prof. Sandra Paterlini invited as Gast Speaker at the Center for Financial Studies (CFS), Goethe Universität Frankfurt

Vincent Weber, Head of Prime Capital AG invited as Guest speaker: “Systematic Investment”

Prof. Sandra Paterlini invited Eike Brechmann to a guest lecture