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Nadia Kotova, Joint HSE/NES undergraduate program in economics '2016 alumna about her past in Russia and PhD program experience at Stanford GSB

Anton Urbanas graduated in 2012 from the Faculty of Economic Sciences at HSE University. Worked at McKinsey from 2012 until 2017. Launched his first startup in fintech with a business partner in 2014. In 2016, began developing an AI platform that generates PowerPoint slides. After moving to the U.S. in 2018, launched the DeckRobot startup that reduces the time required for making presentations to a minimum, saving time for office staff. In 2020, the DeckRobot project attracted $1.5 million of the $2.5 million total investment received to date.

Elena Okorochenko graduated with a Bachelor’s from Moscow State University’s Faculty of Economics and received a Master’s in Economics (with honours) from HSE. Elena, who was in HSE’s very first class of students, started her career in risk management at Credit Suisse First Boston in Moscow. She currently serves as Managing Director, Head of Asia-Pacific Ratings at S&P Global Ratings. She is responsible for driving strategy, business growth, and managing regulatory, investor, and client relationships.

Anna Sokolova, who completed her PhD at the HSE Doctoral School of Economics and is an instructor in the Department of Theoretical Economics, has been offered a position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, demonstrating the high demand for graduates of HSE doctoral programmes on the international academic job market.

Konstantin Golyaev, BSc in Economics'2004 HSE, MAE NES’2006, Ph.D., University of Minnesota 2011, explains how this interdisciplinary field is related to a graduate degree in economics

HSE alumnus Oleg Fomichev, who is currently Deputy Economic Development Minister of Russia, has tried to make the ministry’s work more understandable to the average Russian, and he allows those who work under him to be creative in their work with such a conservative discipline as economics. In an exclusive interview with Success Builder, Fomichev discusses what it is like working as a state official, as well as why a recent college graduate might be interested in such a field.

Coming up with a good idea for your own business is sometimes as easy as just looking at the experience you already have. After working in New York, model and businesswoman Anna Barsukova understood that any urban beauty who is always on the go desperately needs fresh-squeezed juices. This is how the Organic Religion detox bars came about. In the latest edition of Success Builder, Anna discusses why the university is more appealing than the runway and how the detox industry is growing and changing in Russia.

Any budding economist would dream of rising on the career ladder to the IMF and consulting different countries’ governments on economic policy. HSE alumnus Vadim Khramov tells Success Builder how to move towards new goals, make an impact on the European economy, and put his teaching experience to use in the world of investment banking.

You don’t have to invent a new business model, but can simply take one and use it on an existing market with a smaller project that will work for the benefit of the Russian economy. This is what HSE alumnus Pavel Mokrushin, the owner of the café chain Brusnika (Lingonberry), did. He tells Success Builder why he studied at HSE after Moscow State, as well as how what he does is better than the warm chair of a clerk and how the small café is able to survive among the 66 restaurants on Maroseyka Street.

If you can explain why your project will be a success, investments in your business are guaranteed under any conditions. HSE alumnus and chairman of the board of directors at the R-Pharm group, Alexey Repik, told Success Builder what how to phase out of imports properly, how the government can help entrepreneurs, and how to turn extending people’s lives into a business.