The Corvinus University of Budapest (Corvinus) hosted an idea contest between 3rd and 4th of September. The main sponsor of Startup Buda-Pest hackathon was the Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry, while Danube Cup was responsible for the professional aspects of the event, and the Youth Entrepreneurship Promotion Association/Kandó Klub was in charge of project management.

The Singaporean online business case competition, called Asian Business Case Competition was held in august 2022. The team, that represented Corvinus University consisted of talented students who completed the Cases on International Business Strategy course and were selected by the professors of the course.

The article co-authored by Éva Berde and Mánuel László Mágó was published in the Employee Relations.

From September, every week we will introduce an excellent Corvinus researcher who has recently been rewarded for their work. This time we will introduce Dóra Piroska, researcher of the Department of Economic Policy, who answered our questions about banking nationalism and the features of Eastern European capitalism. She has already examined the banking sector from a number of aspects, and recently has shown an increasingly keen interest in fintech start-ups.

The RE-ACT project final conference held on 21 June online and in Macerata, hosted by UNIMC, was the spotlight of regional multistakeholder collaboration. It was a full day with various interventions from RE-ACT partners and guests, all around the challenges and importance of fostering engagement among different parties in regional ecosystems.

On 25 August, the Corvinus University of Budapest selected ten talented young people in need to provide them with a one-year intensive preparatory programme after their secondary school leaving examinations, free of charge, for successful admission to university next year. For the first, introductory project of the Gyula Illyés Programme, two people from Budapest, seven people from the country and one person from abroad applied successfully, and each of them will be supported with close to HUF four million by the University.

From September, every week we will introduce an excellent Corvinus researcher who has recently been rewarded for their work. This time you can get to know Péter Csóka, professor of the Department of Corporate Finance better. Among other things, he researches how to model money market situations with game theory methods.

The behaviour of successful and unsuccessful teams in escape rooms started to differ from each other already after ten minutes, and the minimum level of tense communication may be advantageous for the collective solution of a problem – said a study published recently in the Nature family of journals.

The article co-authored by Zsombor Szádóczki, Sándor Bozóki and Patrik Juhász was published in the Annals of Operations Research.

The prize for the most inspiring conference paper in the European Academy of Management – EURAM Strategic Management section of the most prestigious European management conference was awarded to a researcher of the Corvinus this year. Borbála Szedmák (Corvinus) and Zsolt Roland Szabó (Széchenyi István University) examined ten symphonic orchestras and fifty leading music teaching applications, and drew attention to the fact that for the maintenance of their current business successes, orchestras and music teachers have to learn digital thinking, respond to changing consumer demands and thoroughly renew their business models.