Education

The event is organized by Boston Consulting Group.

This year the Higher School of Economics continued its unique international summer school project 'Management in Emerging Markets: Trends and Strategies.'  For two weeks students from Russian and foreign graduate schools were immersed in a special environment which was conducive to acquiring valuable knowledge about modern trends in business development in Russia; finding new, viable solutions to a two-week case study; exchanging opinions and informal discussions with peers and business representatives.

IBM held its annual forum, the Best Student Recognition Event, in Amsterdam on July 8-10, 2015. The IBM Corporation has been carrying out the event since 2008, bringing together some of the best students in Europe. Around 70 students attended this year’s event, including HSE student Dmitry Shostko, who studies Business Informatics in the Big Data Systems Master’s Programme. Dmitry was rated one of the top-10 students for the second semester.

A total of 25 graduates of HSE’s Master’s Programme in Business Informatics have also received an academic diploma from the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA).

On July 8, 2015, a graduation ceremony for the first graduates of the double degree master’s programme implemented by the School of Logistics together with bbw University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany, took place at HSE.

‘The University of Passau is the youngest HEI in Bavaria but has earnt itself a good reputation since it opened in 1978,’ says Svetlana Maltseva, Academic Supervisor of the Master’s programme in Big Data Systems. ‘For more than ten years the university has occupied a leading position in German and European rankings in Law, Management and International Relations.’

619 HSE students entered the Jaguar Game Changer Business case competition. It is the first event of this kind organised as part of HSE’s cooperation with Jaguar Land Rover.     

Founded in 1978, the University of Passau is the youngest university in Bavaria.

Alexandra Goryaeva, Ekaterina Belozertseva, and Evgenia Tselisheva – Master’s students in the School of Business Informatics (Master's programmes Business Informatics and E-Business) – share their impressions of the programme.

Master’s students at the HSE Faculty of Business and Management, Viktoria Andrukhnenko and Yegor Burdy took first place in the Google Cup Moscow Case Championship. 214 student teams from Russia and the CIS were competing.