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Evija Mehra (Class of 1998) – 20 years later, from beauty products to natural wines
Evija Mehra (Evija Ručevska when she graduated from SSE Riga in 1998) has had a truly international career – she went on from accolades (honours and dean’s list) in Riga to the Norwegian Business School for a master’s degree, to plunging into cosmetics and beauty product marketing with L’Oreal as the only Latvian/Baltic person to be picked from 400 Norwegian applicants.
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Bo Kragh: Tales of the Wild East for a new generation of bankers-to-be
Bo Kragh, a now-retired banker with a long career at Sweden’s Handelsbanken, has been coming to SSE Riga for more than 20 years to deliver “the lecture” on his experiences with banking in “the Wild East” just as the Soviet Union was collapsing. Bo is a 1971 graduate of what could be called “the mothership” in Sweden – Handelshögskolan or the Stockholm School of Economics as it is called in English.
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Public Lecture: A Swedish Banker’s Views on Banking and Financing in the Baltics 1988-2023
On September 25, as part of the Bachelor's programme in Public Policy, Bo Kragh, a former banker with an extensive career at Sweden’s Handelsbanken, will deliver a presentation to students on "A Swedish Banker’s Views on Banking and Financing in the Baltics 1988-2023." The lecture will take place on-site and will also be available via Zoom. We extend a warm invitation to all those interested in the topic to join us.
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What is Econometrics?
…the most profound impact on my career aspirations, it would be Econometrics. Econometrics is probably the most technical course at the school, but its "price tag" in terms of effort is negligible compared to the value the course enables one to deliver afterwards.
An understanding of how to approach data and how to avoid spurious conclusions are very much in demand, coupled with a portfolio of machine learning techniques, altogether a starter pack for a career in data analytics.
This…
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DISCE Project
About
Overall, the ambitious objectives of DISCE are:
To support the development patterns of the CCIs within the EU through improved indicators on their performance;
To contribute to the economy through research on career perspectives, skills development, new business models and inclusive growth;
To re-shape understanding of what ‘inclusive and sustainable growth’ consists of in this context, shifting the CCIs (and CCIs policy) towards strategic goals of ‘cultural development’ that encompass…
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