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“Just Being Surrounded by ICEF Students – It Makes You Bound to Grow”

ICEF karting team leader Anton Shirokov is in his first year of bachelor's study at ICEF and has applied to become a student tutor to help the new cohorts to ease into the student life. Here’s what Anton thinks makes ICEF grads capable of starting a career in practically any field, how sports can improve academic performance, and how freshmen can avoid self-esteem drop.

June 06, 2023

ICEF Welcomes Academic Partnership with College of Business and Economics of United Arab Emirates University

Sergey Yakovlev, Director of the HSE International College of Economics and Finance, and Mohamed Madi, Dean of the UAEU College of Business and Economics.

June 2023, the Higher School of Economics (HSE) and the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) signed the memorandum of understanding during the Third Forum of the Federation of Rectors of Russian and Arab Universities.

June 05, 2023

“ICEF Grads Enjoy High Employment Rate Globally”

Suleyman Karibov, who currently serves as a risk analyst at Nordic real estate investor NREP in Luxembourg, enrolled in ICEF MSc Financial Economics in 2019 and holds his bachelor’s from Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. Here’s how Suleyman managed to keep up with the leaning pace at ICEF, why makes academic mobility a useful experience, and how to land a job in Europe with no experience.

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June 03, 2023

“My Experience at ICEF Has Made Me a More Competitive Candidate for Jobs in Academia”

Francesca Macchia studies Finance at LUISS (Rome) and is in her second year of double-degree track with ICEF’s Master of Financial Economics. This year, Francesca’s paper won the third prize from HSE Student Research Paper Competition. In this interview, Francesca tells about why she chose to study in Russia, how she learned Russian, and what inspired her to choose Econometrics as a field for future PhD research.

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May 31, 2023

“Game Theory Will Always Have Something to Offer You”

Peio Zuazo-Garin has been an associate professor at ICEF since 2019, teaching courses to bachelor’s and master’s students. In this interviewwith ICEF Talks podcast, Professor Peio tells about his passion for game theory and how it relates to the movie Beautiful Mind, why math is an easy field to make careers in, and why it can be useful for a theorist to step out of their comfort zone and into teaching.

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May 24, 2023

ICEF Football Team Wins HSE CUP 2023

HSE has celebrated the completion of its largest sports and fitness event – Inter-Campus Student Football Festival HSE CUP 2023. Competing in it were the teams of HSE Moscow, HSE Nizhny Novgorod and HSE St. Petersburg.

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May 16, 2023

HSE Welcomes the Delegation of School of Economics, Shanghai University

The 15^th of May witnessed the senior managers, programme coordinators, faculty members and students of ICEF and the Faculty of Economic Sciences (FES) welcome the officials and administrators of the International Department of the School of Economics, Shanghai University.

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May 16, 2023

“Success is Largely the Product of How Well You Get Along with People”

Kristina Drozd is in her fourth year of ICEF bachelor's programme and successfully combines her studies with managing the customer experience projects at Alfa-Bank. Kristina’s semester-long experience as an exchange student at the University of Bologna had given her unique practice of intercultural communication. In this interview, Kristina shares about why she chose to work in banking, how product managers can benefit from their knowledge of finance, and what makes going on exchange a useful experience.

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May 12, 2023

ICEF Students to Join Southwestern University of Finance and Economics Summer School (China)

June 25 to July 8, the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, China, is hosting the 2023 Global Academy Summer Camp. Corporate Green Innovation and Sustainability. Registered as its participants are eleven bachelor's and master's students of ICEF.

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May 06, 2023

“I’m Incredibly Excited to Be Part of HSE Alumni Community at MIT”

Gleb Kudryashov is in his fourth year of undergraduate study and one of the top students in ICEF’s International Programme in Economics and Finance. Gleb holds prize from last year’s Econometrics Universiade and this year he received acceptance letter from MIT (USA). Here’s why Gleb chose study over work, how he discovered his best-fit master’s in finance, and why he believes conversing with the Nobel laureates can be life-changing.

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May 04, 2023

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