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I-Week (International Week on Sustainability) took place in Antwerp, Belgium, on 18-22 March. Students from the HSE Graduate School of Business and —for the first time — ones from HSE-University World Politics Department and the Department of Geography and Geoinformation Technologies took part in the event. 5 people participated in the offline format, 17 were able to join online, and the idea inspirer of the Russian I-Week delegation Ekaterina Ivanova, Associate Professor at the GSB Department of Strategic and International Management, continued to be part of the faculty team of this prestigious programme.

The first foreign module of the MBA programme of the HSE Graduate School of Business took place in one of the fastest growing cities of our time — Shanghai.

EdUniversal rating agency has published Top 2024/2025 EdUniversal Best Masters Ranking https://www.best-masters.com/, which for the first time includes master's programmes of the HSE Graduate School of Business.

Elena Sinitsyna, an emerging researcher and postgraduate student of the HSE Graduate School of Business, has been honoured with the prestigious Emerging Scholar Awards provided by the Organization Studies Research Network. The award is designed to highlight the outstanding achievements of young researchers and support their professional development in the field of organisational studies.

The HSE Graduate School of Business held another meeting within the framework of the project "Point of View. GSB Open Lectures", organised by the GSB Alumni Relations Department. The topic of the discussion was personal effectiveness of a top manager in a changing world. More than 120 specialists, graduates of GSB MBA, GMP and DBA programmes, students of open programmes of additional education came to learn the opinion of experts and ask questions.

The HSE Graduate School of Business hosted the first research seminar of this year on the topic "Marketing research in the development of the transport complex of a megacity: results and new directions".

In January 2024, HSE students from Moscow, St Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod took part in the Winter School ‘Business and Governance in India’, hosted in Dehradun by the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES). Having now completed the course, its attendees—participants of the Master’s in Sustainable Business Management at HSE Graduate School of Business—shared their impressions with the HSE News Service.

The "Long-lived Companies: In Search of Japan's secrets" Winter School organised by the HSE Graduate School of Business and the Japanese NUCB Business School, Nagoya, took place in Japan on 14-22, January. 11 GSB students and project leader Sergey Shaposhnikov, Associate Professor of the GSB Department of Strategic and International Management, visited Japan.

For the 2nd year students of the Business Management program, a new educational case developed by the Financial Management Department of the Higher School of Business of the Higher School of Economics was tested. The author of the case, associate professor Yulia Leevik, together with the co—author of methodological guidelines for teachers on working with this case, senior lecturer Alina Vakhrushina, discussed the challenges faced by a knitting factory with 18 years of production experience on the way to entering the modern universe of electronic commerce.

In December, the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge and the HSE AI Research Centre participated in UNCTAD eWeek to discuss the future of the emerging digital economy. One of the topics discussed during the conference was artificial intelligence and its applications in driving the digital transformation of industry sectors. The session was co-organised by HSE University.