In the days of East Germany the building now housing the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin used to be at the center of power of the East German Communist regime. Nowadays,it's a place where tomorrow's managerial elite is trained up,and where top politicans such as the German Chancellor Angela Merkel hold keynote speeches. Larissa,a student from Russia,considers the situation in her home country. Meanwhile,other students draft their ideas and guidelines for running a corporation with a multi-million turnover: a crash course in capitalism,and well aware of the financial crisis. A report by Michael Wetzel and Wolf Gebhardt