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Almost every company at one point or another falls victim to IT-based attacks. In addition, online attackers are becoming increasingly professional, Germany's digital association Bitkom, which represents more than 2,000 companies of the…

The two partner universities' contribution to the Franco-German friendship has at least 344 faces: that's how many students participated in the double-degree programs of the economics departments at Goethe University and Université Paris…

People who have fled to Germany to escape war and violence often suffered traumatic experiences. Torture, rape or attacks can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): Those affected suffer from symptoms such as nightmares, vivid…

What is the connection between modern architecture and capitalism? This question is explored in an essay by architectural historian Carsten Ruhl, which focuses on the sociologist, philosopher and journalist Siegfried Kracauer. The essay…

Having signed the “Letter of Intent” a year ago, the Frankfurt-Tel Aviv Center for Interreligious Studies has now been officially launched with a two-day conference held in Israel. The program included lectures by Christian, Jewish and…

When we hear about bees, in most cases only the honeybee (Apis mellifera) is mistakenly associated. Wild bees, on the other hand, are only slowly humming their way into our consciousness, although they make up by far the most species in…

So far, little is known about the interior of neutron stars, those extremely compact objects that can form after the death of a star: the mass of our sun or even more is compressed into a sphere with the diameter of a large city. Since…

On the Westend Campus, the “RuW” building housing the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration is one of the newer buildings (it dates from 2008), and as such was constructed with a more climate-conscious…

For his doctoral thesis, Price of Privacy, Dr. Lennart Kraft received the Dr.-Dietmar-Harting Prize of the Erich-Gutenberg-Arbeitsgemeinschaft e.V. for outstanding achievements in business administration on the theory of enterprise at the…

Digital information, systems and culture have long been key parts of our day-to-day lives and have fundamentally changed the way we work and do business. Success in business is determined, for example, by whether the maximum amount of…