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Finance Without Borders: St. Petersburg — São Paulo. How 10 international teams built future-ready projects in two months
With warm thanks to our Brazilian partners at São Paulo State University (UNESP): Prof. Dr. Cleginaldo Pereira de Carvalho, his coordination team, and the UNESP students for their openness, discipline, and high standards throughout the project.
Two months moved in a steady rhythm: short weekly sprints, evening calls across three–four time zones, shared folders for working documents, and clear roadmaps with check-points. Teams aligned data into a common format, agreed on terminology, and recorded decisions — step by step building a single picture everyone could work from.
Turning Numbers into Strategy: Guest Lecture by Anna Logunova
On April 3, students of the Master’s in Finance program had the opportunity to attend a guest lecture by Anna Logunova — a member of the program’s Academic Council and Director for Controlling at Magnit, one of Russia’s largest retail companies.
A Real Case, Real Investments, and a Global Professor: Guest Lecture by Professor Mikhail Munenzon
On Monday, March 31, students of the Master’s in Finance program had the chance to attend a dynamic guest lecture by Professor Mikhail Munenzon from Illinois Wesleyan University (USA). But this was more than just a lecture — it was a hands-on workshop where finance theory met real-world practice, and investment decisions felt strikingly real.
Guest lecture by A.L. Vyalkov, Vice-President of Bank Saint-Petersburg: Management in a Commercial Bank
On February, 27th on Master's programme ‘Finance’ there was a guest lecture of the vice-president of Bank Saint-Petersburg Alexander Leonidovich Vyalkov. The lecture aroused great interest among students and became a valuable source of practical knowledge about the work of commercial banks.