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Board Empowerment: What Motivates Board Members of Founder-Owned Companies?

An article by IIMS and ICSID research fellows Alexander Libman, Tatiana Dolgopyatova and Andrei Yakovlev “Board Empowerment: What Motivates Board Members of Founder-Owned Companies?” was published online in the leading management journal “Journal of Management Inquiry” on March 13, 2018.

Joint seminar on Diversity and Development

Another session of the joint seminar on Diversity and Development was held at HSE on March 13.  Professor Andrei Markevich from the New Economic School presented his research on "Democratic Support for the Bolshevik Revolution: An Empirical Investigation of 1917 Constituent Assembly Elections".  

Pi Indicators

On the 14th of March, the world celebrates the 30th anniversary of Pi (π) Day. On this occasion, we examined how frequently this mathematical constant appeared in our publications. And there were a lot of such π-indicators.

Lab staff won a RFFI grant

Seminar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Seminar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Andrei Yakovlev was invited to give a talk at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Harvard University) on March 9, 2018. The paper that Professor Yakovlev presented was called “In Response to External Shocks: How Advanced Russian Regions React to Changes in Federal Policies – the Experience of Tatarstan”. The seminar was chaired by Thomas Remington, the Davis Center Associate and Visiting Professor at Harvard University.

“The Life & Legacy of Douglass North” Conference

“The Life & Legacy of Douglass North” Conference
ICSID Director Andrei Yakovlev presented his paper "Mobilizing Law in Developing Countries: Some Implications from Russian ‘Limited Access Order’" at “The Life & Legacy of Douglass North” Conference that took place at George Mason University in Arlington, the USA, on March 2-3.

Research seminar on March, 21: Elena Parilina (AM&CP SPbSU)

Time: 16.50 - 18.10
Place: 3A Kantemirovskaya st., room: 354

Research workshop on Sports Economics

Research workshop on Sports Economics
On Friday, March 2, Ksenia Baidina, a graduate of the Higher School of Economics, gave a talk at the IDLab research workshop on sports economics

Personality metatraits: the experience of research on the Russian sample

On March 1 Tatarko A.N. (PhD, professor) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report on "Personality metatraits: the experience of research on the Russian sample".

Digital Outlook of Russian Scientists

Experts at the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge found out to what extent modern digital technologies have taken over the activities of Russian PhD holders.