Department of Business Informatics

HSE Graduate School of Business and Avito Auto—the automotive vertical of Russia’s largest online classified platform—hosted an intensive product hackathon where 4th-year Business Informatics students designed gamified concepts to engage young people.

A study conducted by HSE Graduate School of Business has identified 10 key IT trends that will shape the development of Russian organizations in 2026.

HSE Graduate School of Business and Yango—a global tech company behind ride-hailing and on-demand services—hosted the Digital Innovation Hackathon, an intensive, gamified competition where students sharpened product skills while reimagining everyday urban mobility.

Vsevolod Aleksandrov is currently a second-year bachelor’s student in Business Informatics at the HSE Graduate School of Business. In his interview, he shared how he was admitted through the targeted quota, which opportunities at the HSE Graduate School of Business he has already taken advantage of, how he combines participation in case championships with working as a business analyst in a startup, and why it is worth trying everything and immersing yourself 100% in student life.

On September 19, Master’s students of the programs Product Management in IT Business (delivered jointly with Avito) and E-Business and Digital Innovations at the Higher School of Economics Graduate School of Business participated in the finals and award ceremony of StarTech.Awards 2025.

At the HSE Graduate School of Business (HSE GSB) campus, the joint master’s programme officially launched, accompanied by the opening of the dedicated Avito classroom.

The international Digital Product Management Summer University, an educational project by the HSE Graduate School of Business and Alfa-Bank, brought together more than 30 students from leading universities in China.

Anton Chukseev, a student of the “Electronic Business and Digital Innovations” program at the HSE Graduate School of Business, has become the winner of an internal hackathon on vibe-coding organized by Yandex. As part of a team, he won in the “Personal Productivity” track — one of the three competition categories.

The Graduate School of Business at HSE University and Alfa-Bank have signed a cooperation agreement aimed at developing educational programs in the field of business informatics.

The Graduate School of Business at HSE University (HSE GSB) successfully held student consulting project defenses for the Master’s program Electronic Business and Digital Innovation.