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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.

On November 30, the International Sustainability Week I-WEEK 2023, an event organized by the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Antwerp, was honored with the recognition of "best interdisciplinary course" at the University of Antwerp for its focus on sustainability

On November 30, the GSB hosted a seminar on usage of open innovation approaches in Russia. The guest speaker was Mr. Dmitry Kurin, Director of Open Innovations and Investments at MTS and a chairman of the academic council of the GSB’s master's program Business Analytics and Big Data Systems. The focus of the seminar was on MTS, Russia’s largest mobile operator and a leading provider of media and digital services, and its application of open innovation practices. The seminar was moderated by Zeljko Tekic, a professor of GSB.

On 21 November HSE Graduate School of Business had the privilege of hosting Marianna Simonyan, country manager for Tech & Startups at Seed Group, Dubai. Marianna's presentation "Dubai yesterday, today, and tomorrow — successful economic principles of the UAE," was devoted to the discussion of the economic strategies that have propelled the United Arab Emirates to prominence.

Students of the Business Management programme at the HSE Graduate School of Business have created a 3D model of the Shabolovka building. Over several months it took to digitize two floors of the fourth building and the entire campus and visualize more than 500 panoramas. The GSB students totally digitized more than 2,500 square metres of space! Nowadays the 3D tour has already been viewed by more than 1400 people. The development was carried out in the GSB Design and teaching laboratory “Entrepreneurship Centre” under the guidance of Dmitry Knatko, Academic Head of the Business Management educational programme. It became a part of the project studying textile entrepreneurship in Russia.

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.