ESMT Faculty

In this video Konstantin Korotov, ESMT Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Leadership Development Research, talks about the Generation Y. He explains their expectations to the world of work, advantages and disadvantages of digital connections, and their motivation. Konstantin Korotov joined ESMT European School of Management and Technology in August 2005 as an assistant professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in August 2008. Since 2011 he is the director of the ESMT Center for Leadership Development Research (CLDR). Konstantin actively collaborates with the INSEAD Global Leadership Center in Fontainebleau, France, where he also received his PhD in Management (Organizational Behavior). In addition to his academic work, he has over 15 years of practical Leadership Development experience in the US, Russia, UK, France, Portugal, Spain, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, Uzbekistan, Latvia, Hong Kong, Brazil, Qatar, and Argentina.

“Brands and companies can be seen as people” – Francine Espinoza Petersen, ESMT Associate Professor, introduces her latest research on consumers’ emotions and how emotions shape consumers’ judgments and decisions. Her research has been published in leading journals, such as the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making and the Journal of Business Research. “Brands have to be authentic and true to their personality, but they also have to know how to connect emotionally to their customers to generate this loyalty.”

Christoph Burger is a member of the faculty at ESMT and managing director of ESMT Customized Solutions GmbH. He studied business administration and economics at the University of Saarbrücken (Germany), the Hochschule St. Gallen (Switzerland), and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA). Christoph has taught microeconomics at the University of Ann Arbor, was project leader at Otto Versand, worked as a strategy consultant at Arthur D. Little and as an independent consultant, and was vice president at the Bertelsmann Buch AG. Christoph has professional experience in strategy, post-merger integration, equity financing as well as customer and supplier management. He has solid international experience, spanning Northern and Eastern Europe and the United States.

Jan U. Hagen is a member of ESMT's faculty as well as Head of Practice Group Financial Services, ESMT Customized Solutions. Prior to ESMT, he was an assistant to a member of the board of Deutsche Bank, senior manager at A.T. Kearney, Principal with Booz Allen & Hamilton, and a Partner at Consileon Business Consultancy. Jan has solid experience in management consulting and coaching in the European financial service industry. He is teaching in executive education programs. His current research focus is on error management, crisis management and team leadership.

Konstantin Korotov joined ESMT European School of Management and Technology in August 2005 as an assistant professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in August 2008. Since 2011 he is the director of the ESMT Center for Leadership Development Research (CLDR). Konstantin actively collaborates with the INSEAD Global Leadership Center in Fontainebleau, France, where he also received his PhD in Management (Organizational Behavior). In addition to his academic work, he has over 15 years of practical Leadership Development experience in the US, Russia, UK, France, Portugal, Spain, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, Uzbekistan, Latvia, Hong Kong, Brazil, Qatar, and Argentina. Konstantin's dissertation was about the dynamics of executives’ identity change and conditions supporting personal transformation. He currently conducts research on leadership development, leadership coaching, and executive education. His recent work is reflected in The Coaching Kaleidoscope: Insights from the Inside, a new book co-edited with Manfred Kets de Vries, Laura Guillen, and Elizabeth Florent-Treacy (Palgrave, 2010) that is a sequel to Coach and Couch: The Psychology of Making Better Leaders (with Kets de Vries and Florent-Treacy, Palgrave, 2007), as well as in book chapters and academic and practitioner articles on leadership development, and teaching materials for participants in executive educationprograms. Konstantin is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies.

Matthew Bothner, ESMT Professor and Deutsche Telekom Chair in Leadership and HR Development, introduces his latest research on status using vivid examples from chicken farms to business school rankings. The video gives insight into how high status can become detrimental to performance and thereby explores the dark side of status. “This research suggests that as you get very high in status you will grow complacent and you will also become distracted. People who acquire status have to be good stewards of the status they get. They shouldn’t allow themselves to be diverted by all the people that want a piece of them now that they’ve got their status.”

In this new video, CB Bhattacharya, E.ON Chair in Corporate Responsibility, talks about his recent research. He examines the question: “When companies do good things for the environment or for society, does it actually influence the consumer’s intention to buy their products rather than a competitor‘s product?” CB Bhattacharya’s expertise is in the area of business strategy innovation aimed at increasing both business and social value. He is especially interested in how companies can use underleveraged “intangible assets” such as corporate identity and reputation, membership and brand communities, and corporate social responsibility to strengthen stakeholder relationships.