Practical Training

This project is practice-oriented and is structured as a simulation of a management consulting project on business internationalization. It integrates previously acquired multi-disciplinary knowledge and skills in international strategic management, financial management, international marketing and project management etc. This course is implemented with the support of the project seminar "Business Internationalization", where students systematize the knowledge gained in other courses.

In addition, this project provides fundamentals of the management consulting project organization in the field of international management, approach to delivery, core consulting tools and methodologies practiced in small project groups. The work is split into stages where students are required to apply such methodologies solving a particular business sub-task. Upon completion of each stage the groups present their intermediate results/receive feedback before proceeding to the next stage. The final deliverables of the integrated project are presented at the end.

Dates of control points

• Signing assignment to student - January 15

• Submission of interim version - February 15

• Submission of final text/report - March 15

Evaluation and reporting

Final grades will reflect group report preparation and a final oral defense assessed on:

• Knowledge of key concepts/theories applied to business internationalization;
• Organization/logical sequence of presentation and supporting data;
• Originality of the project;
• Design of presentation;
• Presentation skills;
• Teamwork;
• Response to questions

Meeting with GSB Career Centre

Presentation with Instructions (PDF, 1,57 Мб)

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Work Experience Internship (hereinafter - internship) is an integral part of the educational process. It is an independent work of a Master's student under the guidance of a teacher and a specialist of organization - the base of internship. Internship for the 2nd year students of Master degree programme at Higher School of Business is spent according to the working curricula and schedules of educational process with the purpose of gaining by students of skills of professional work, deepening and strengthening of knowledge got during theoretical teaching.

Internship is calculated by duration for 9 weeks.

Internship is an integral part of the educational program of master's training and is mandatory for implementation.

Internships can be stationary or field-based, carried out under contracts with legal entities or at HSE.

It is not allowed to pass practice in IE (individual entrepreneurs), in own company or in the company of a relative (heirs of the first and second order). The organization, where the student is interning, should meet the following requirements:

• number of employees of the organization - not less than 50 people, the limit value of income for the previous calendar year - from 100 million rubles, or, if this criterion is not met - the organization is part of an international / Russian network of firms;
• the period of existence of the business - not less than 3 years.

In case the organization does not correspond to these criteria, the student must obtain a written approval of the Academic advisor with the justification of the possibility of carrying out the professional practice in the organization.

Dates of control points:

• Signing of the assignment to the student - December 15
• Submission of the intermediate variant - February 25
• Submission of final text/report - March 25

Evaluation and reporting

Upon completion of the internship, the student must submit within the established deadline:

1. a practice report signed by the master student and his/her supervisor; the structure and content of the report must meet the requirements specified in this program (in terms of structure and content);
2. review of supervisor from the internship site;
3. individual task for internship signed by Master students, academic supervisor and internship site supervisor.

If any of above-mentioned requirements is not satisfied in due time, the master's work in internship will be evaluated as unsatisfactory.

The results of the master's internship are evaluated by the supervisor on a 10-point scale.

Consulting Project (PDF, 88 Кб)

The thesis preparation is an obligatory element of the educational program, a form of research and design work of the student. The defense of the graduate thesis is a compulsory part of the FSC.

Master's thesis must demonstrate the necessary professional qualification of graduates in the field of research, management, entrepreneurial and/or consulting activities.

Master's thesis must be written on the basis of thoroughly researched scientific, educational or professional literature on the problem under study. The thesis must be distinguished by a critical approach to the study of literary sources. The material drawn from literary sources must be redesigned, organically linked to the topic chosen by the student.

The main formats of a graduate thesis are:

• Research format - research carried out in order to obtain new knowledge about the structure, properties and patterns of functioning of the studied object (phenomenon).
• Applied format - identification and analysis of applied problems, as a result of which a solution/product that has an applied nature is proposed.

The graduate qualification work may be based on the generalization of the results of course work performed by the author and contain materials collected by him/her personally during the internship.

The graduate qualification work is performed individually.

Control point dates:

• Signing assignment to student - November 10th
• Submission of interim version – April 1st
• Submission of final text/report - May 15th