Professor Martin Carnoy of Stanford University and visiting professor at the Higher School of Economics, and Tatiana Khavenson, Research Fellow at the HSE Institute of Education, were among the authors of the report ‘An Analysis of the Impact of Education Policies on Student Achievement in the United States’, which was recently presented in Washington, DC. The key provisions of this report are of use when it comes to analyzing the situation in Russian education.
Tatyana Mikhailova, assistant professor at Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, presented her paper “Geography of import transportation routes in Russia: the choice of an entry point” at the joint ICSID-CSDSI workshop held at Malaya Ordynka on November 3rd. That was the 14th event in the series of ICSID-CSDSI seminars on Diversity and Development.
On November 3, Edgar Demetrio Tovar-García, PhD in Economics, University of Barcelona, Associate Professor of the Department of Public Policy (Faculty of Social Sciences, HSE) took part in the «Culture Matters» research seminar with the presentation of the program of the course "Money and Finacial Behavior" for master’s program "Applied social psychology" and made a report on "An overview on economic and financial behavior".
Prof. Aleskerov, the Head of the International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis gave a talk at the 6th Moscow Supercomputing Forum (MSCF 2015) that took place in Moscow on October 29-30, 2015
Companies with decentralized management systems are, on average, more effective than firms where the CEO tries to control everything. The risk of centralization is higher if the company is managed by families. These were the main findings of the recent research by Irina Levina, research fellow at the HSE Institute for Industrial and Market Studies.
A research seminar of the International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis took place at HSE. Constantine Sorokin delivered a report on 'Comparative Statics in Common Value Auctions and Beyond'.
The Centre for Advanced Studies of Science, Technology and Innovation created last year and based at ISSEK is one of the elements of Higher School of Economics’ new architecture that is relevant to the implementation of its competitiveness program. At an event in the Government, Yaroslav Kuzminov talked about how HSE structure and staff are improving.
Congratulations to Oxana Sulimina on her successful preliminary defence of Ph.D. Thesis "Personality Development in the Period of Transition from Childhood to Adulthood in Different Conditions of Socialization (in family and without family)".
