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In episode #17, we speak with Solape Akinpelu, the co-founder and CEO of HerVest, a women-focused, inclusive fintech platform enabling women to participate in key financial services in Africa. In leading the Nigeria-based social enterprise, Akinpelu and HerVest bring a gender-lens approach to traditional financial services, wielding tech innovations in the space so that women gain access to the le...

"Businesses can play a major role in contributing to economic, environmental, and social progress, especially when they minimize the adverse impacts of their operations, supply chains, and other business relationships," states the OECD. But what does it take to gain industry compliance with ambitious international legislative goals for environmental sustainability? And what will it mean if we fail...

What does the business cybersecurity landscape look like today? Were you to believe Hollywood, it looks like a pimply-faced teen hacker working from a dark basement for a stylish but likeable band of thieves. The realities are far more sinister – involving sophisticated cyber espionage rings backed by nation states using surveillance capitalism, ransomware, and zero-click attacks on financial mark...

Much has been documented about the role of sexism and racism in reducing opportunities for women and people of color in the corporate world – whether in hiring, compensation, or in advancement to the C-suite and board-level positions or, in the entrepreneurial space, in access to project investments. But, as the song goes, "sisters are doin' it for themselves" to create and share opportunities in...

We hear a lot about "disruption" these days, especially as technology like AI and machine learning transforms traditional sectors like manufacturing. Can disruption be learned?  In Berlin – where the fast-developing startup scene raises comparisons to Silicon Valley – ESMT has launched an entrepreneurship hub. Will it transform a young crop of entrepreneurs into the Germany's next unicorns? Baris...

In an online meeting earlier this year, a high-level executive at KPMG UK said employees should "stop moaning" about the pandemic and dismissed staff fears about proposed salary and pension cuts as "playing the victim." Although he later apologized to his team for his choice of words, the leaked video of his comments prompted a public outcry and lead to his resignation from the company. How do exe...

Over 1.3 million people worldwide live with a disability. Yet for too long, their rights and opportunities in the workforce were left from the diversity inclusion agenda. Caroline Casey is the founder of The Valuable 500, a global movement putting disability on the business leadership agenda of the world's national and multinational private-sector corporations. To date, the CEOs of over 440 compan...

Dr. Nakeema Stefflbauer (nakeema@post.harvard.edu) is the founder of FrauenLoop, a nonprofit organization that selects and trains motivated women-identified persons for professional jobs in emerging tech. She's also the founder of Tech In Color, a network of tech leaders in Europe focused on expanding visibility and opportunities for senior tech professionals from diverse ethnic and racial backgro...

Ines Amri ( ines.amri@tu-berlin.de ) is a research project lead at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) and a doctoral candidate in the department of Trust in Digital Services (TDS) in the faculty of economics and management at TU Berlin. The ECDF collaboration with the German development agency GIZ supports European-African exchange in the digital transformation; Ines Amri's research focuses...

Dr.  Alberto Ares is a Jesuit and an associate professor and researcher at the   Comillas  Pontifical University in Madrid , where he serves as the director of its Institute for Migration Studies  and teaches  in  i nternational  m igration and  d evelopment  c ooperation.    The fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic is dramatically transforming economies globally.  In episode # 8  of Campus 10178, the...

Klara Lindner is a researcher and consultant on renewable energy solutions and the co-founder of Mobisol. Now owned by ENGIE, Berlin-based Mobisol develops off-grid solar energy products for  communities in Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania that are underserved by typical energy market providers.  Christoph Burger is a senior lecturer at ESMT Berlin, with a research focus on blockchain/innovation in the...

Martin Unger is the managing director of WATTx, a company bringing deep tech solutions to traditional industry. Mandy Hübener is a program director at ESMT, with a primary focus on organizational culture and change. In episode #6 of Campus 10178, the ESMT Berlin podcast, the two discuss the modern workforce in the age of AI. Is machine learning and other digital innovation supporting new work mode...

Chris C. Demchak is the senior cyber scholar of the Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute (CIPI) of the US Naval War College. Henning Lahmann is an expert in international law and a senior researcher at the Digital Society Institute at ESMT. In episode #5 of Campus 10178, the ESMT Berlin podcast, the two speak on cyber security and transnational security strategies, and how so-called wicked actors...

Didi Hopkins is an actor, director, voice-over artist, and lecturer. As a senior associate at Dramatic Resources, she trains business school students and corporate professionals on how to use acting techniques for body and voice to achieve in business communication and leadership. In Episode #4 with Campus 10178 co-host Sascha Rödel, Hopkins differentiates between message content and message deliv...

Chengwei Liu joined ESMT Berlin as an associate professor of strategy and behavioral science in the summer of 2019, coming from Warwick Business School. He has also taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and MIT, among others. He speaks with Campus 10178 about his latest book, "Luck," and how, somewhat counterintuitively, luck can be studied and managed to win business success. Find "Luck: A Key Idea for Bu...

Ina Budde is the co-founder and CEO of circular.fashion, a sustainability-focused agency in fashion and textiles. After she studied fashion design, she soon realized that she didn't want to contribute to "business as usual" in the sector. Hannes Gurzki is a program director at ESMT and an expert for branding, marketing, strategy, and luxury. After studying music and business, he worked in consulti...

Simone Menne is a German top manager and a prominent advocate for women's leadership in the executive suite. For five of her 27 years at Lufthansa AG, Menne served as the company's CFO. Today, she is a supervisory board member at BMW, Deutsche Post DHL, and Springer Nature; serves as a non-executive board member at Johnson Controls International; and runs her own art gallery in her hometown, Kiel....