Education

10^th International Student Conference on Contemporary Problems and Trends in Logistics and Supply Chain Management Development was held in School of Logistics on April 27-28, 2016. The conference was attended by the bachelors, masters and postgraduate students, representatives of the School of logistics of HSE and other leading universities of Russia and Germany, as well as CIS countries. The total number of participants exceeded 200 people.

A team which includes several HSE students has won the SAP InnoJam hackaton in Moscow. The winners will now move forward to the SAP InnoJam in Europe this autumn.

On April 9, 2016 School of logistics hosted a workshop of Stanislaus Friedkin, the Director for operational planning of large international trading and manufacturing company. The event was organized by the Department of information systems and technologies in logistics with the support of the student Council of the School of logistics.

HSE took first place among Russian universities in subject rankings for Sociology and Economics & Econometrics (101-150 globally). In Business & Management Studies and Accouting & Finance, HSE ranked first and is currently the only Russian university in the ranking, placing in the 151-200 group.

Usually they choose to work in a company or to go on to study for a doctorate. But Ekaterina Kolpakova, HSE master’s graduate, decided to continue her studies and applied for an international MBA programme. She told us about her decision in an interview.

On October 30, 2015, graduates of the Master’s Programme ‘Strategic Management in Logistics’ received their long-awaited second degrees from bbw University of Applied Science at a ceremony at the Estrel Berlin Hotel.

Eduniversal Confers 3 Palmes of Excellence on HSE Faculty of Business and ManagementEduniversal, the international rankings agency has awarded the 3 Palms of Excellence level to the HSE Faculty of Business and Management and recognised it as ‘an outstanding business school with increasing international influence’. An HSE representative received the certificate in a ceremony on campus at Harvard University.

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.