ICEF Career Centre is actively working with a number of leading consulting firms - ICEF Graduates key employers. In addition to career events they organize on campus, these firms also participate in various ICEF initiatives. We are grateful to those of them giving us feedback and answering questions, which are of interest to our students and recent graduates. We have formulated key questions and asked partners from some of the leading consulting firms to answer them.This week we are publishing the response to questionnaire by an A.T. Kearney partner – Boris Poretsky. More - to come.
Director of the International College of Economics and Finance Sergey Yakovlev has talked to Interfax about how Russian universities can improve their international competitiveness, find partners in Europe and the United States, launch their graduates into the global marketplace, and find the ideal balance between their Russian roots and international educational trends.
January 28 saw the launch of a Kickstarter project developed by graduates from the HSE’s International College of Economics and Finance (ICEF). Alexandra Zhdanova graduated from ICEF in 2008. She is currently working at McKinsey, while also developing her Jungle Bowl project – an idea she came up with while studying at INSEAD. Jungle Bowl has already received support from business schools, and on January 28, a fundraising campaign for it launched on Kickstarter.
In September Lord Richard Layard, the ICEF co-founder and Emeritus Professor of LSE, made a speech at the ICEF Graduation Ceremony 2014 which took place in the Moscow Residence of British Ambassador. This year Richard had his 80th Anniversary and the 50th Anniversary of his career at the LSE. In honour of this we publish here some abstracts from his speech.
