Department of Business Informatics

Twenty-seven students from Chinese universities took part in the international summer school ‘Digital Product Management’ organised by the HSE Graduate School of Business and Alfa-Bank. Over the course of a week, participants explored the Russian economy and business environment, learned about current technology trends, and worked through the key stages of digital product development step by step—from researching user needs and defining a problem to developing a prototype and presenting their final project.

Three GSB researches presented research on global product management, open innovation, and AI at the Elsevier–Tsinghua University conference in Beijing.

With the support of the HSE Graduate School of Business, Arseny Moshninov, a student on the Master’s programme in Electronic Business and Digital Innovations, presented his research at AIEI 2026, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Energy and Infrastructure. The conference took place on 13–15 May in Da Nang, Vietnam and brought together participants from France, Norway, China, Vietnam and other Asian countries.

HSE Graduate School of Business, in partnership with Avito — Russia’s largest online marketplace for buying and selling goods and services — has been awarded the School of Education Award “Breakthrough of the Year” for its Master’s in Product Management in IT Business.

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.