The centennial jubilee!
Year 2009 was a jubilee year for Stockholm School of Economics. The culmination event, celebration of the centennial jubilee of the school in the City Hall of Stockholm, a meaningful place for all Swedes, took place in September. Blue Hall, the place of the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony, became the place of the jubilee celebration this autumn.
In presence of the King and Queen of Sweden President of the School Dr. Lars Bergman thanked the honorable guests, partners and professors and delivered a solemn speech in honor of the jubilee.
King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf delivered a congratulating speech dedicated to the centennial jubilee of the school that ended the banquet. After the solemn banquet guests were invited to the ball in Golden Hall.
More than 1,200 guests including a press delegation from Russia were present at the celebration. For the first time Russian journalists could get acquainted with the alma mater of SSE in Stockholm and prepared articles about this event later:
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Ratings of Financial Times
Executive MBA of Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) took the first place in Northern Europe and Baltic Sea region and the 19th place in Europe in the international rating of 95 best Executive MBA programs published by Financial Times newspaper on October 19 of 2009.
All three Executive MBA programs of Stockholm School of Economics – in Sweden, Russia and Lithuania – participated in the rating of Financial Times for the second year in succession. One hundred and ninety-seven alumni of Executive MBA programs of Stockholm School of Economics from all over the world were polled during composition of the rating, which once again proved that they enjoyed demand on the international market.
One hundred and thirteen Executive MBA programs participated in the rating and only 95 of them were put on the final list.
Open Doors Day
On October 22, Stockholm School of Economics Russia had the first Open Doors Day in Marriott Courtyard Moscow City Centre. More than 80 guests gathered for the event. This time, they were given a unique opportunity to communicate not only with employees of the school but also with our alumni. Thanks to Andrei Dashunin, Mikhail Chernyshev, Natalia Shtaltovnaya, Maxim Kopylov and Veronica Zusmanovich we attracted many new participants to Executive MBA programs.
The Open Doors Day also included speeches of program directors and lecture of Dean Anders Liljenberg.
HR forum
On September 29, the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce organized the fourth annual HR forum "Cooperation with services providers: what to expect?" with participation of Ancor holding.
Stockholm School of Economics Russia acted as an expert and a partner of the forum. Roland Bergman, adjunct professor of the University of Notre Dame, guest professor of the University of California, Berkley and SSE Russia, made a report entitled "Pay for Performance."
Executive MBA in Russian
On November 4, Stockholm School of Economics, Russia launched Executive MBA program in the Russian language for the first time. Despite the crisis, the program attracted big interest and gathered top and middle-rank managers not only from Moscow and St. Petersburg but also from the CIS countries, Ukraine and Russian regions.
Enlistment to the second group of Executive MBA program in the Russian language begins in Spring. This is conditioned by a big interest in the program and a big quantity of the candidates who have not managed to join the second group on time.
Business landscape of St. Petersburg 2009
On December 17, Dean of the school Dr. Anders Liljenberg spoke at the final conference of Vedomosti newspaper entitled "Business landscape of St. Petersburg. Results of 2009" and read a report named "Trends of business education in 2009." In general, speakers discussed the following topics:
Prospects for development of economy of Northwestern region in 2010,
Leading advertisers of St. Petersburg in 2009,
Graduates of 2009
The Graduation ceremony of Executive MBA SSE Diplomas took place in the Winter garden of Astoria hotel on December 18.
Participants of three EMBA groups –"General Management," "Strategic Marketing" and "Oil&Gas. Industrial sector" – totaling 112 people received the Diplomas on that day.
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Alumnus of the school is Entrepreneur of the year-2009
Alexander Glushkov, representative of the Stockholm School of Economics Russia alumni community, President and founder of one of Russia's leading chains of beauty shops MONE, won international Entrepreneur of the year-2009 award of Ernst & Young in nomination of "Services."
President of MONE Alexander Glushkov said, "This is recognition of 11 years of development of the whole company and the team with which we work every day. Today, MONE is a broadly recognizable brand that is associated with style, quality and prestige. It would be sufficient to say that this year our company became the official stylist of the national beauty contest "Miss Russia 2009," Haute Couture Week in Moscow and some big fashion events."The first alumni module
The first alumni module of Executive MBA program took place near St. Petersburg between November 6 and 8. Alumni of various years received a unique opportunity to meet again and gather into the unique atmosphere of the Stockholm School of Economics.
The module took place in Baltiets hotel, a symbolic place for the first EMBA groups of Stockholm School of Economics, Russia that had always been taught there.
The classes were taught by Vasily Dermanov who spoke about new macroeconomic trends and by Goran Roos whose lecture was dedicated to management of innovations.
The friendly atmosphere and the general interest of the audience enabled the alumni not only to obtain new interesting knowledge but also to feel like participants of the programs of Stockholm School of Economics again.
Roundtable meetings with the Dean
Roundtable meetings with alumni took place in autumn. On September 21 in St. Petersburg and on October 21 in Moscow Dean of Stockholm School of Economics Anders Liljenberg invited alumni of the school to participate in the roundtable meetings dedicated to discussion of the topic of opening of a program for education of bachelors in the field of business and economics. Anders Liljenberg reported what was going on in the school now and in which direction Stockholm School of Economics Russia planned to develop in the future. The alumni shared their ideas about the new projects and commented on them.
We thank those who have managed to come and to participate in discussions!
A new appointment in Mail.ru
Alexander Borodich, alumnus of EMBA Strategic Marketing program of Stockholm School of Economics Russia, was appointed marketing director of Mail.Ru. Borodich had a similar post in Acronis before. Between 2002 and 2003 he was the head of å-commerce department in Direct Info and between 2005 and 2009 he was marketing director in Acronis and was in charge of Internet promotion and online sales of the company's products all over the world.
A solemn graduation ceremony for RZD
In November of 2008, Stockholm School of Economics Russia launched the first round of corporate educational program for RZD holding.
In autumn of 2009, 35 top and middle-rank managers of RZD defended the graduation works dedicated to issues of strategy, finance and company HR management successfully. The solemn ceremony of handing out of certificates of the school to the first graduates of the program took place on October 18.
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS)
A corporate educational program of SSE Russia for the Russian division of Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), international leader in pharmaceutical industry, was launched on September 25.
The corporate program was developed in close cooperation by specialists of Stockholm School of Economics Russia and managers of Bristol-Myers Squibb. Among participants of the program are top managers of the company including general manager of the Russian division of Bristol-Myers Squibb Michel Manin, as well as heads of departments and middle-rank managers with prominent leader qualities.
In 2010 the research group of Stockholm School of Economics headed by professor Carl Fey will once again carry out a research of global competitiveness for the World Economic Forum. Stockholm School of Economics has been a partner of the World Economic Forum since 2001. Tens of managers participate in the poll annually and express their personal onion about some issues related to the business environment and competitiveness of the country in various sectors of economy. We will be very grateful if you manage to take part in the tenth jubilee research this year and answer questions of the questionnaire to be sent to you at the end of February.
The Stockholm School of Economics, Russia will take part in the following events:
March 23 – World MBA Tour, Moscow
March 24 – Executive MBA, Begin group, Moscow
March 25 – The Open House of SSE Russia in Moscow
The Stockholm School of Economics, Russia is permanently takes part in various conferences and media reviews in the role of expert and participant.
On Multimedia page we published our interviews at Echo of Moscow radio, interview of Professor Carl Fey to Russia Today TV-channel and many other items - http://www.sseru.org/index.php?tpl=second&mid=5;27&pid=27&lang=en
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