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Sergey Timakov, a GSOM SPBU student of the Master in Business Analytics and Big Data (MiBA), has already got an internship in BCG Gamma after the first year of the program. In this interview he told us about the company, his duties and the atmosphere within the team.

Alexandra Shaban is a first-year student of GSOM SPbU studying Management. She graduated from a high school in Kaliningrad with honors and was dreaming about getting into a business school. Alexandra passed the Unified State Exam with 295 points out of 300 possible in total and got into both MGIMO and GSOM SPBU, in the end she chose GSOM in Saint Petersburg, where she is a recipient of a special GSOM scholarship. She has shared some of her first insights in this interview.

Jerome Lambert is a first-year Master student at GSOM SPbU, originally from Belgium. He has chosen the Master in Business Analytics and Big Data (MiBA) program. Two years ago he came to St Petersburg and GSOM as part of the Erasmus program. He liked the city and the Business school and decided to continue his education in Russia. We have asked Benjamin Tetteh, student of GSOM Master in Management program, to discuss with Jerome his education at GSOM, his choice of the program and why he has decided to study in Russia again and has chosen the MiBA program.

Daria Zarubina, Director of Global Strategy and Leadership at PwC Russia, is an alumna of the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg University (GSOM SPbU) and the MBA program of the University of Cambridge. She works in the London office of PwC and has experience working in the Middle East and Russia. Her team is developing a strategic direction for the network, which operates in 155 countries worldwide. She is implementing a program designed for the evolving of senior managers, as well, based on a global strategy.

In the interview Elena Petrova-Kessariyskaya told about her career development, current projects and what needs to be done to become successful.

Yulia Bondarchuk is an alumna of 2008 of the Bachelor in Management program in the course "HR Management", the Graduate School of Management of St. Petersburg University (GSOM SPbU). During and after her studies, she managed to work in both HR and marketing. In 2014, she opened an Edoque Store. Today, the company has 100 thousand customers, 75 employees and a large selection of environmentally friendly products. In an interview, Yulia talked about studying at the Business school, the specifics of running her own business, and plans for the future.

In an interview, Vasily Taran told why he dreamed of studying at the Business School, working in consulting and employment at BCG.

Aliya Grieg is the Founder and CEO of Cosmos City and Human Cosmos app: startups that make space closer and more understandable

Ekaterina Khan graduated from the Graduate School of Management at St. Petersburg University (GSOM SPbU) in 2016. We talked with Ekaterina about how to decide to leave a good job in order to continue her Master studies, how to get into a large startup, and how GSOM Family helped her in the career.

“The GSOM family is the most precious thing we have after graduation,” said Vladimir Ostromensky, Ph.D., chief physician of the maternity hospital of the Scandinavia network of clinics, an alumnus of the MBA and the Presidential Management Training Program at the Graduate School of Management of St. Petersburg University (GSOM SPbU)