On Campus

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.

On February 19, students of the Master's programme ‘Finance’ of the National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg took part in a large-scale tax conference organised by the company ‘Trust Technologies’. The event was dedicated to the changes in tax legislation that will come into force from 2025. The conference brought together leading industry experts, including representatives of business, tax authorities and consultants, which allowed participants to gain unique knowledge and practical recommendations.

The HSE building on Kantemirovskaya Street hosted the first meeting of the project 'Mexican Traditions—Why Are Mexicans Always Happy?' Students and professors learnt about national festivals, customs, and traditions in Latin America, as well as opportunities for academic mobility.

Leading global business schools actively incorporate case studies into their educational processes, as they are based on real situations faced by companies and the narratives that these companies experience. A case study may focus on one or several subject areas and may include not only the actions of senior management, but also various employees. Case study development is a lengthy and labor-intensive process, yet an increasing number of educators and professors are developing these cases and publishing them in open sources.

On January 25, Russian Students' Day, HSE University-St Petersburg will open a new educational space in the building of the Rope Shop of the Red Nailer factory on Vasilievsky Island. The monument of constructivism, which was designed by the prominent architect Yakov Chernikhov, will become a centre for the development of IT, engineering, design and media communications. Approximately four thousand students will study in the building.

During the new course Accounting 2 as part of the Financial specialization on International Bachelor's in Business and Economics programme students worked on the course project for which they invented a business, described processes and risks of the company, planned events and financial calculations for 2 years, executed accounting transactions and prepared financial statements. 

On 9 December, the Swiss technology park Mobahaus hosted a significant event organised by the residents of the technology park together with the School of Economics and Management of the National Research University Higher School of Economics and Management St. Petersburg with the active assistance of Natalia Ursul, Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Foreign Languages. It brought together representatives of diplomacy, business and academic community, as well as students to discuss issues of cross-cultural communication, management under uncertainty and interaction in the global environment.

A case championship “Chocolate factory” took place in Higher School of Economics as part of the Master of Finance programme on 27 November. Students were divided into groups in order to solve real tasks on financial analysis and business evaluation.

We are proud and happy to announce that the master's students in the "Finance" program at HSE - St. Petersburg demonstrated the highest level of preparation and ambition. The team "CASE ME HARDER," consisting of first-year master's students — Vsevolod Nikolaev, Ivan Rogov, Alisa Belkova, and Viktoriia Mitropolskaia — won the case championship "Cooperation with the Corporation," organized by HSE - St. Petersburg in collaboration with Setl Group.

At 17^th of October B1 Groups Senior Manager Ekaterina Bondariuk and Senior Expert Alexander Kogan presented opportunities of audit career start and development to the students of the School of Economics and Management.