Dmitrii Knatko

In September, the Higher School of Economics Graduate School of Business hosted interactive master classes for more than 500 first-year students with one of Russia’s leading sustainability experts. ESG expert Svetlana Ivchenko introduced students of the flagship undergraduate programs Business Administration and Marketing and Market Analytics not only to practices and strategies of sustainable development management in major Russian metallurgical companies, but also to her personal experience of professional transformation as a top manager grounded in values. The master classes were held as part of the career guidance seminar “The Profession of a Manager in the Modern World”, organized by one of its instructors — Associate Professor Ekaterina Ivanova of the Department of Strategic and International Management, who familiarized students with the theory and practice of ethics, responsibility, and sustainability in contemporary business.

Russia has launched the development of a Business Tourism Infrastructure Index, which will include unified performance metrics for regions and hospitality facilities.

In July, graduation ceremonies were held on the campus of the HSE Graduate School of Business. Diplomas were awarded to 546 bachelor's and 690 master's graduates, and 35 bachelors and 43 masters graduated with honours.

On May 21 and 28, students of the educational program "Business Management" within the framework of the course "Insurance of entrepreneurial risks" met with experts of the insurance market and had the opportunity to get acquainted with the practice of running an insurance business

Students of the Business Management programme at the HSE Graduate School of Business have created a 3D model of the Shabolovka building. Over several months it took to digitize two floors of the fourth building and the entire campus and visualize more than 500 panoramas. The GSB students totally digitized more than 2,500 square metres of space! Nowadays the 3D tour has already been viewed by more than 1400 people. The development was carried out in the GSB Design and teaching laboratory “Entrepreneurship Centre” under the guidance of Dmitry Knatko, Academic Head of the Business Management educational programme. It became a part of the project studying textile entrepreneurship in Russia.

The 2nd Congress of Young Scientists was held at the Sirius Park of Science and Art in Sochi. HSE University representatives took an active part in it, working at various venues where a wide range of topics were discussed—from university development to machine learning and scientific cinema.

The HSE Graduate School of Business (GSB) held its first open-air student festival, Project Fest by GSB, at Shabolovka. It was the final stage of the Student Groups Project Competition for the 2020/2021 academic year. Lectures, master classes, business games from students and business representatives, and educational and entertainment activities were also organised for all Festival visitors.