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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).

Dmitry Aldunin - the bachelor of the School of Business Informatics, the alumni of master’s program “E-business”, the participant of IBM EMEA Best Student Recognition Event 2013, now works in Microsoft.

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.

Dr. Katerina Berezina, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, Sarasota, FL, USA, delivered the lecture  “Hospitality IT 2020: Shaping a Hotel of the Future” to the students of the specialization “Tourism and Hotel Management” of the Master’s program “Experience Economy: Hospitality and Tourism Management”

The Academic Diploma in Business Analysis from International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) is designed for students who have chosen business analysis as their desired profession.

Maxim Brodovsky, a graduate of HSE’s Faculty of Management, now the Faculty of Business and Management, currently works as the Director of the hotels Holiday Inn Moscow – Lesnaya and Holiday Inn Moscow – Suschevsky. In an interview with HSE, Brodovsky talks about students in the Experience Economy: Hospitality and Tourism Management programme, the perks of working in a hotel, and the future of the hotel business in Russia.

‘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.’

The event took place on May 19-21 in Moscow.

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.