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The third issue of 2025 features studies on digital transformation and firms’ environmental performance, the uncertainty of sustainable growth for ESG enterprises, institutional investors and firm performance in the oil and gas industry, the role of the digital economy in driving carbon neutrality, business ecosystem frameworks, the impact of foreign investment components on cash holdings, determinants of capital structure under financial turbulence, and more.

In total, almost 600 members of staff were named Best Teachers

A paper by our colleagues Irina Ivashkovskaya and Artem Anilov titled "On compensation incentives, managerial overconfidence, and payout policy" has been published in the journal Finance Research Letters.

On 23 June 2025 the leading international peer-reviewed journal – Journal of Economics and Business – published a paper by Irina Ivashkovskaya, Professor of the School of Finance, and Artem Anilov, Associate Professor of the School of Finance, How to Incentivize CEOs to Boost Payouts? The Role of Inside Debt.

The academic journal Journal of Corporate Finance Research (JCFR) has been added to the international bibliometric platform SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) — an analytical portal based on Scopus data.

The first issue of 2025 features research on ESG ratings across BRICS countries, the impact of new technologies on the performance of vertically integrated Russian oil companies, the development of digital ecosystem resilience indices, financial inclusion, and more.

The Conference will be held on June, 4-6 in London.

Economists from HSE and RUDN University have analysed issues related to corporate digital transformation processes. The introduction of digital solutions into corporate operations reduces the number of patents in the field of green technologies by 4% and creates additional financial difficulties. However, if a company focuses on sustainable development and increases its rating in environmental, social, and governance performance (ESG), the negative effects decrease. Moreover, when the ESG rating is high, digitalisation can even increase the number of patents by 2%. The article was published in Sustainability.

The study «Portrait of the Board of Directors – 2024» has revealed new trends in the composition and functioning of boards of directors in Russia’s largest companies.