Victor Krakovich

The International Bachelor's in Business and Economics opened at HSE University-St Petersburg a year ago. The programme offers English-taught studies in both economics and management at the same time. It is supported by corporate partners: VK, Gazprom, Sberbank, and others. Victor Krakovich, Academic Supervisor of the programme, explains how the educational process in the programme is structured.

For two months, first-years will work closely with the programme's partners. Among them are VK, 'Gazprom', 'Sberbank', Tele2, 'Business Solutions and Technologies', 'Technologies of trust', Kept, 'Samolet', Setl City, 'Geropharm', 'Northern Capital Gateway', Alexandrinsky Theatre, Fabergé Museum, 'Bookvoed' and many others. This is the first fieldwork for students. The projects presentation will take place at the end of May.

The International Bachelor's in Business and Economics is a new cross-campus programme run by HSE University in St Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Perm. The first enrolment opens this year. The HSE News Service talked to the programme's academic managers and campus administrators about the course content and students’ career opportunities after graduation.

Viktor Krakovich presented the results of the study "News Sentiment as a Predictor of Bank Failure"

Victor Krakovich presented the results of the study "Research-teaching nexus: the new answer to the old question"

Double degree tracks have been created as a result of a partnership between HSE – St. Petersburg and other programmes offered by well-known foreign universities. Participants are given the opportunity to study abroad for a year at a partner university. Upon successful defence of a thesis in front of a joint commission, students receive fully fledged diplomas from two universities.

Laboratory trainees Alina Gilmutdinova and Dmitry Maksimovich presented at the IDLab workshop the first results of the study "Analysis of media sentiment for predicting bank performance" conducted under the leadership of Viktor Krakovich (IDLab, HSE - St. Petersburg)

IDLab members, as well as students writing course papers under their supervision, took an active part in the VIII scientific conference "Neighbors in Research".

IDLab researchers presented a new study on the development of a business ethics index for Russian companies

Much has been said about online education over the last year. What used to be perceived as a challenge a few months ago has become a new comfort zone and does not impress anyone. Indeed, during the pandemic, we have proved that persistence, professionalism, and flexibility bring good results even when the world is turned upside-down. Having had a successful experience of hosting the St. Petersburg HSE Summer School online, the university introduces HSE – St. Petersburg International Research School, a new project encouraging students all over the world to explore different areas — from Russia’s role in international relations to social, cultural, gender aspects of Russia’s historical experience, and even to the burning issue of what global business is going to be like when the COVID-19 crisis is over.

Viktor Krakovich, HSE University - St. Petersburg, presented the results of a study on the factors of bank bankruptcy

On August 21st, Saint Petersburg HSE Summer School, which has been taking place since 2017, came to a close. This year it moved online due to the pandemic. 44 participants from 18 countries, including France, Ireland, the USA, the Philippines, China, and others were joining Zoom during four weeks. The organisers of the Summer School were happy to welcome students of 15 HSE partner universities such as Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, King’s College London, Sciences Po Lyon, University of Basel, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, and others.