Lecture "How to work with different investors"

On March 10, within the framework of the author's English-language course "Corporate Finance", which in 2021 was supported by a grant from the Educational Innovation Fund of the Higher School of Economics, Markovskaya Elizaveta Igorevna, Ph.D., Associate Professor of the Department of Finance and visiting lecturer Andrey Alexandrovich Udalov, Ph.D., MBA, Director of Agat Investment Fund held a lecture "How to work with different investors". At the lecture, students learned about the specifics of working with different investors, about their approaches to evaluating investment projects. Udalov A.A. spoke about the policy of the Agat Investment Fund, about successful cases. The lecture also discussed the features of entrepreneurial potential in different countries, analyzing Russian and foreign statistics.

We recieved comments from lectors and students:

Markovskaya E.I., PhD, Associate Professor of the Department of Finance, current business appraiser, involved forensic expert, member of the Self-regulated organisation of business appraisal "Expert Council":

"Corporate Finance discipline, developed by me and structured taking into account the requirements of the CFA exam and the Russian Business Apraisal Qualification Exam is practice oriented. Therefore, I try to fill it with interactive work - conducting business games, master classes, guest lectures, inviting my colleagues from different business areas. I gave a lecture on working with investors with Andrey Alexandrovich Udalov, director of the Agat Investment Fund, with whom we hold business games together, pitch sessions within my disciplines. Seminars on the discipline "Corporate Finance" are conducted by my colleagues in the Department of Finance, Ph.D., Associate Professor Makarova O.V. and Lecturer, PhD Postgraduate Ojo K.Sh. who, like me, are practicing professors with extensive experience in business.”

Andrey Udalov, Ph.D., MBA, Director of Agat Investment Fund , invited lecturer:

“Well done, everyone asked a lot of questions. Then many creatively made  my assignment for this lecture. As a result, I got the impression that by the time of the lecture the students had quite serious training in terms of the classification of investors in general.”

Artem Krutko, student:

«Everything went well, the topic was interesting enough to listen to non-stop, I especially liked some insider insights, that the development of IT companies turns out to be quite a complicated matter, which does not seem so at first glance.»