International Summer School «Doing Business in Russia: International Perspective»

15:36, July 25, 2017

The master’s programme International Management organised a short-term programme for Russian and foreign students

On July 21st the international summer school Doing Business in Russia: International Perspective — a short-term programme lasting for 2 weeks. More than 20 students from Russia, Italy, Belgium, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia and Pakistan learnt about aspects of opening a business in modern Russia.

The following experts gave lectures for students:

• Liudmila Ruzhanskaya, Professor and Head of Academic Department of Theory and Practice of Management at UrFU
• Christopher Miller, Senior Private Sector Specialist in the World Bank Group Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice
• Andrey Klepach, Deputy Chairman (Chief Economist) — Member of the Board at Vnesheconombank
• Yuri Simachev, Director for Economic Policy at National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow
• Elena Bespamyatnyh, Director of Сentre for Educational Technologies and Human Resourcing of Innovations, Director of educational programmes of the Innovative Centre «UrFU Model Factory of Lean Production»
• Ekaterina Kalinina is Deputy Director at Institute of State and International Law and a lecturer of Department of Constitutional Law in the Ural State Law University.

The students visited manufacturing companies and offices of international enterprises having branches in Ekaterinburg, such as Ural Bank of Reconstruction and Development, Ural Locomotives, Deltaplan Advertising Agency, UrFU and McKinsey Model Factory of Lean Production, to get an immersive experience of real business environment.

At the end of the course the students defended projects presenting their business ideas that could be implemented in Russia.