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‘HSE University Graduates Are an Elite Who Can Show Excellent Results and Achieve a Lot Both in Russia and Abroad’

‘HSE University Graduates Are an Elite Who Can Show Excellent Results and Achieve a Lot Both in Russia and Abroad’
Elizaveta Vityuk is a graduate of the HSE Faculty of Economic Sciences, and a partner in McKinsey&Company, the largest global management consulting company. Elizabeth spoke to HSE news service about her career path, her work as a consultant and about the tasks that she has to solve.

Economic Empowerment at HSE University

Elena Podkolzina (on the right)
HSE University alumna Dr. Elena Podkolzina recently became an academic supervisor of the newly established master's programme in Economics and Economic Policy. Having been part of HSE University for nearly 25 years now, Dr. Podkolzina recalls her student years and shares her experience as deputy director of the Center for Institutional Studies.

Do Banks Always Need to Know as Much as Possible about Borrowers?

Do Banks Always Need to Know as Much as Possible about Borrowers?
Economists from HSE University have demonstrated that collecting as much information as possible about borrowers does not always decrease banks’ risks. Sometimes, more is not better: on the contrary, increasing the volume of data might increase the risks of loan defaults to a certain extent. The study was published in the WP BRP HSE University, Series: Financial Economics series of working papers.

Victoria Dobrynskaya, the School of Finance Assistant Professor, Did an Interview for Overseas News Channels

Risk-Taking Propensity Significantly Contributes to Entrepreneurship

Risk-Taking Propensity Significantly Contributes to Entrepreneurship
But only for those who view running a business as their life’s work

‘The academic profession is such that it takes a lifetime to grasp fully’

‘The academic profession is such that it takes a lifetime to grasp fully’
Alexey Parakhonyak graduated from HSE in 2004 and now works as an associate professor at Lincoln College, Oxford. In this interview with Success Builder, Mr Parakhonyak explained why HSE attracted the best professors right from the start, how Erasmus University teaches its PhD students, how to win students’ hearts and what, besides the university, makes the city of Oxford interesting

Congratulations to our first international applicants recommended for scholarship admission!

Congratulations to our first international applicants recommended for scholarship admission!
First international applicants of the bachelor and master programs were approved for scholarship admission recently. We congratulate these high achievers and their families with the first success towards their great careers in finance, economics and statistics!

20 years

20 years
mark the joint academic programs of the Faculty of Economic Sciences (Faculty of Economics in 2000) of the HSE University and the Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany)

Two Contestants Correctly Guessed All Three Nobel Prize Winners in Economics

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They were able to predict the exact list of awardees of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021: David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens.

‘More and More Often, We Need to Analyse Data That Is Non-Financial’

‘More and More Often, We Need to Analyse Data That Is Non-Financial’
In September, the new HSE online master’s programme in Business Analytics launched on Coursera. Its educational content is close to the practice-oriented on-site HSE master’s programme in Corporate Finance. Graduates of the programme go on to pursue brilliant careers in business, retail, banking and finance, as well as create their own start-ups.