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D-MTEC Media Update – Swiss labour market remains tense
D-MTEC experts engage with issues that affect society, the economy and business. The D-MTEC Media Update provides links to recent articles, interviews and commentaries. Corona continues to take its toll on the economy. Temporary workers and interns are often the ones who suffer in crises, says Michael Siegenthaler, specialist for labour markets at KOF Swiss Economic Institute. Ursula Renold, Professor of Education Systems, urges to take care of those who have just completed their apprenticeship.
New Spring Semester Courses in 2021
Our ambition at MAS MTEC is to offer a practice-oriented education involving real-life examples relevant to our students’ professional work. In line with this goal, five new courses have been launched this Spring Semester exclusively for MAS MTEC students. They cover Project Management, Applied Business Ethics, and Personal Branding and Storytelling.
D-MTEC Media Update – A new book on the digitalisation of health
D-MTEC experts engage with issues that affect society, the economy and business. The D-MTEC Media Update provides links to recent articles, interviews and commentaries. Elgar Fleisch, Professor at the Chair of Information Management is one of the authors of a new book called "Die Digitale Pille" (The Digital Pill). He calls for faster networking of health data for which obligatory standards among all participants in the health system are decisive.
D-MTEC Media Update – Covid-19 and the wealth gap
D-MTEC experts engage with issues that affect society, the economy and business. The D-MTEC Media Update provides links to recent articles, interviews and commentaries. Corona is likely to reinforce existing inequalities in income, wealth, education and also with regard to gender, says Isabel Martinez of KOF Swiss Economic Institute. KOF also has lowered its forecast for GDP growth in 2021 from 3.2 to 2.1 percent.
Hugo Tschirky: Building bridges between management and engineering
ETH Zurich has a long history of connecting business management and technical engineering concerns. This bridging function is assumed today by the MTEC Department. Hugo Tschirky, who died in October 2020 at the age of 83 due to complications from a heart operation, contributed decisively to this tradition as Professor of Business Management from 1982 to 2003.