Inauguration: July 1, 2013
Chair: Catalina Stefanescu-Cuntze, Professor of Management Science, Deutsche Post DHL Chair
Faculty chairs
Disseminating knowledge!
At ESMT Berlin we recruit, develop, and promote a diverse world-class faculty. Our productive environment supports the academic faculty in their focus on rigorous and original research aimed at top academic publications. Our managerial faculty further enriches the School with strong business experience combined with academic credentials. Industry backing provides opportunities to generate ideas with substantial practical impact, that also feed insights into creative teaching approaches.
Faculty chairs
Academic excellence through funded chairs.
Faculty chairs represent the research agenda of a faculty member. If you would be interested in funding a chair, please see the "support link" further down on this page.
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Deutsche Post DHL Chair
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Deutsche Telekom Chair in Leadership and HR Development
Inauguration: May, 2011
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Ingrid and Manfred Gentz Chair in Business and Society
The Ingrid and Manfred Gentz Chair in Business and Society is the first privately funded chair at ESMT. Manfred Gentz was a member of the Board of Management at Daimler until 2004 and played a central role in the founding of ESMT. With the financing of this chair, Ingrid and Manfred Gentz support research contributing to a value-based framework for decision-making.
Inauguration: February 6, 2019
The chair’s mission is to develop relevant scientific knowledge to help leaders act competently and responsibly in the face of an increasingly knowledge-based, interconnected, and innovation-driven society. At the center of the Chair’s research and teaching is the role of trust-based networks as conduits of individual and organizational effectiveness.
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Joachim Faber Chair in Business and Technology
Inauguration: tba
Chair: N.N.
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Lufthansa Group Chair in Innovation
Inauguration: May 16, 2018
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Michael Diekmann Chair in Management Science
The Michael Diekmann Chair in Management Science honors the former chairman of the Board of Trustees of the ESMT Foundation.
Inauguration: June 15, 2016
Mr. Diekmann was the chairman of the ESMT Foundation from 2007 to 2015, during which time he was also the CEO at Allianz SE. It was a period of rapid and continuous growth for ESMT with some important milestones being international accreditations and the right to grant PhDs.
The Michael Diekmann Chair in Management Science aims to consolidate the interconnectedness of sustainability and profitability. It focuses on the development and application of concepts to solve managerial issues. With interdisciplinary approaches, the chair supports companies in making sustainable decisions.
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POK Pühringer PS Chair in Entrepreneurship
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President's Chair
The President's Chair at ESMT Berlin was introduced in 2019 to recognize outstanding scholarly work of individual faculty members.
Inauguration: December 1, 2019
Chair: Francis de Véricourt, Professor of Management Science, President's Chair
The first holder is Francis de Véricourt. In the last five years, he taught in all our degree programs, in the PhD program, and in over 10 different open and customized executive education programs. His average evaluations never went below 1.3 on a German scale, and he is one of the few faculty members who actually received a 1.0 evaluation in an executive education program. He has repeatedly (eight times in the last five years) received the Mario Rese Best Teacher Award from the MIM, MBA, and Executive MBA classes (14 times in the last five years), as well as the President’s Honor Roll for Teaching Excellence. Furthermore, Francis received the Best Teacher Award from the MIM class 2017-2019.
Since 2015, Francis has published six A/A+ journal articles, and another two A/A+ are accepted and forthcoming.