Education

The School of Economics and Management team won the CFA Russia Challenge, a nation-wide student competition on investment analysis of companies. The team's mentor, Vladislav Afanasiev, graduated from MP “Finance” in 2020. The students were tasked with carrying out Equity Research - a company analysis on the basis of which investors make strategic decisions about forming an investment portfolio.

On 5 June, the Mentor Workshop course included a fascinating lecture on "Creation a Project Management Risk System in Oil and Gas industry" presented by Pavel Kisilev, Head of Project Evaluation and Analysis Department of OOO GAZPROMNEFT SRC, and Andrey Bondarenko, Head of direction.
Students of MP "Finance" have learned how to classify risks; they have got acquainted with methods of identification, an estimation and ranging of risks on an example of the oil and gas extraction, oil service enterprises; they have learned to reveal and estimate technological, organizational and ecological risks in oil industry.

On March 28 there was a project defense within the module "Project Work". Practical solutions were developed for the companies: Sveza (world leader in the production of birch plywood) and Association GAOORDI (St. Petersburg Association of Public Associations of Parents of Disabled Children "GAOORDI").

Lecturers from HSE University-St Petersburg and the University of Oregon (US) have designed a course aimed at developing creativity in business activities. Galina Shirokova, Professor at the Department of Management, talks about the course and shares her plans to develop imagination and creative thinking within the St Petersburg School of Economics and Management.