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GSB students and trainees of further education programmes at the HSE Graduate School of Business now have a modern and comfortable space for work and creativity. Alfa-Bank opened an IT space at GSB — Alfa Space — a co-working for project and business communication. The opening ceremony was attended by Alfa-Bank's Chief Executive Officer Vladimir Verkhoshinsky and a team of the bank's top managers.

The All-Russian online conference on sustainable tourism “Tourism of the Future” took place on 23-25 October, bringing together leading experts and representatives of the tourism industry from different regions of the country. The rich conference programme covered all aspects of sustainable tourism of the future, involving more than 50 speakers. The conference was attended by over 800 representatives of companies in the industry, including accommodation facilities, such as resorts and tour companies, as well as restaurants, guides, beauty brands and IT. One of the organisers of the conference was Yulia Frolova, a second-year student of the GSB Master's programme “Management of Sustainable Company Development”, being the part of the team of the eco-travel startup HEBI Travel.

HSE Graduate School of Business was honored to welcome a group of international delegates - representatives of 30 universities from 25 countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America and CIS.

15 graduates of the HSE Graduate School of Business took leading positions in various areas of the TOP-1000 Russian Managers rating prepared by the Russian Managers Association and Kommersant Publishing House and published on the kommersant.ru website. The rating annually presents the best managers, summarising the work of professionals for the year.

On 26th of September HSE Graduate School of Business hosted a lecture by a distinguished guest speaker, Hoglys Martínez, a general director of PDVSA Russia. Students had an opportunity to discuss the challenges and to discover the opportunities of the oil and gas market from an expert's perspective as well as gain valuable insights to expand their business horizons.

The HSE Graduate School of Business signed an Academic Mobility Agreement with Rabat Business School (RBS), a leader in business education in the African region.This is GSB's first partnership in Africa. It is an important step in the development of international relations in the global educational space. Earlier, RBS became a member of the “Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools”.

The Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools (AAPBS) is the first association of business schools in the region, which GSB has joined. It is a non-profit organisation established in 2001. Its aim is to ensure the improvement of the business and management education quality in the Asia-Pacific region. For the GSB, joining the association is an important part of the strategy of international relations development.

On August 31, the opening ceremony of the auditorium named after Alexander Nikolaevich Dyatlov, Dean of the HSE State University’s Faculty of Management in 1995-2000, took place in the first building of Shabolovka campus. Alexander Nikolayevich started his research activities in the field of economic forecasts in the late 1980s and joined the HSE State University in 1994.

At HSE, not only professors evaluate students, but also students can give their assessment of lecturers and choose the best courses. Thus, according to the students' opinion, 83 lecturers of the HSE Graduate School of Business became the best in the 2023 academic year.

With China becoming Russia's main trade and economic partner, the development of cooperation between the two countries in the field of business education grows ever more important. To this end, a delegation of the HSE Graduate School of Business led by Director Valery Katkalo visited Shanghai.