Political Leadership
On February 17th Lord George Robertson gave a lecture entitled ‘Political Leadership:the Way to Success'at the HSE. You can watch a video of the event here.
‘It is Impossible to Imagine a Similar Situation in Moscow’
On March 1st the deadline passed for HSE students to enroll for the Summer School on ‘Comparative Public Administration. Experience of Great Britain’run by London Metropolitan University . Pat Gray, Deputy Head of the Department of Law, Governance and International Relations, London Met, told us more about this project.
Multidimensionality of Professional Knowledge
Evgeniy Salygin, Dean of the HSE Faculty of Law, told us about the specific features of legal education at the Higher School of Economics and the preparations for this year’s students’enrollment.
The Search for Explanations
On February 16th the HSE Institute for the Development of Education held a seminar. Professor James Banks gave a report on ‘Race, Ethnicity, and Education:The Search for Explanations’. You can watch a video of the event here.
Research Seminar of the HSE Department of Banking
On February 15th Zuzana Fungáčová, a member of BOFIT —Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition, Helsinki, Finland, presented her reports entitled ‘Market Power in the Russian Banking Industry’and ‘Determinants of bank interest margins in Russia:Does bank ownership matter?’ as part of a research seminar of the HSE Department of Banking. A video of the event has been added.
Individual Approach and Original Courses
Sergey Lando, Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, told us what prospective undergraduate and postgraduate students will meet at the Faculty in 2010.
Future Champions
Viktor Nikitin, Dean of the HSE Faculty of Business Informatics, and his Deputy, Irina Lesovskaya, told us about the specifics of the education at the Faculty.
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Cognitonics
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Cognitonics were published as part of the proceedings of the International Multiconference ‘Information Society 2009’ . Workshop Co-Chair was Vladimir Fomichev, PhD, Professor of the HSE Faculty of Business Informatics Department of Innovations and Business in Information Technologies.
A Member of IMESS
On February 1st 2010, HSE students, professors and researchers met with the leaders of the University College London (UCL) International Masters programme in Economy, State &Society .
Games of Social Interactions
On February 1st a research seminar of the HSE International College of Economics and Finance took place. Shlomo Weber, Southern Methodist University, USA, presented his report on ‘Games of Social Interactions with Local and Global Externalities’ at the seminar. You can watch a video of the event here.