Academic advisors

Management specialization, general and strategic management topics, Moscow

Anna Veselova

Candidate of Sciences in Economics, Associate Professor at the GSB – Managing Innovation in Organizations for Corporate Sustainability; New Models of Internationalization of Companies from BRICS Countries; Models of Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Intersectoral Partnerships

Igor B. Gurkov

Doctor of Sciences in Economics, Professor at the GSB – Organizational design of large Russian corporations; strategies of foreign companies in the Russian market

Anja Tekic

PhD, Associate Professor at the GSB – Crowdsourcing, Hackathons, and Collective Problem Solving for Innovation; Artificial Intelligence in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management; Innovation Strategy Under Technological and Institutional Change

Yuriy Timofeyev

PhD, Associate Professor at the GSB – Systems for supporting management decision-making in healthcare organizations; the impact of socio-psychological aspects of management on organizational performance; conditions for ensuring comprehensive economic security for Russian financial sector organizations

Dmitrii Knatko

Associate Professor

Irina Volkova

Professor – Corporate Strategies and Strategic Resources of the Firm; Digital Transformation; Business Model and Strategy Transformation; Management of Technological and Organizational Innovations; Innovation Ecosystems

Management specialization, topics of technological innovation management, digital business transformation, and the application of artificial intelligence and big data methods in management, Moscow

Veronika Belousova

Candidate of Sciences in Economics, Associate Professor at the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) – Innovation activity; digital business transformation; knowledge management in companies

Natalia Veselitskaya

Candidate of Sciences in Economics, Leading Research Fellow at ISSEK, Associate Professor at the School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship – Knowledge Management; Management of Organizational and Technological Innovations; Interorganizational Forms of Innovation Management

Yury Dranev

Doctor of Sciences in Economics, Professor at ISSEK – Analysis and forecasting of science, technology, and innovation; financial innovation; asset pricing models

Yuri Zelenkov

Doctor of Sciences, Professor at the GSB – Artificial Intelligence Systems for Supporting Management Decision-Making; Application of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Methods in Management

Mikhail M. Komarov

PhD, Candidate of Sciences, Professor at the GSB – Distributed ledger technologies for improving organizational management efficiency; methods for digital business transformation using AI-based agents; AI tools and methods for improving the effectiveness of management decision-making

Dirk Meissner

PhD, Professor, ISSEK – Innovation Policy in Science and Technology; Public-Private Partnerships in Innovation; Intellectual Property Management

Zeljko Tekic

PhD, Professor at the GSB – Using Artificial Intelligence in Innovation Development; Strategic and Organizational Transformation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Thomas Thurner

PhD, Leading Research Fellow, ISSEK – Innovation Management; Innovation Management; Technology Transfer

Management specialization, marketing, Moscow

Sergey Mkhitaryan

Doctor of Sciences in Economics, Professor at the GSB – Data-driven Marketing; making marketing decisions based on statistical analysis of marketing information

Vera Rebiazina

Candidate of Sciences in Economics, Professor at the GSB – Marketing of customer relationships in the digital economy; managing customer-oriented companies; marketing innovations

Kirill L. Rozhkov

Doctor of Sciences in Economics, Professor at the GSB – Marketing in Tourism; Branding and Brand Management of Territories

Olga Tretyak

Doctor of Sciences in Economics, Professor at the GSB – Human-Centeredness; Resilient Ecosystems in New Organizational Forms

Management specialization, operations management and supply chain management topics, Moscow

Victoria Gerami

Doctor of Sciences, Professor at the GSB – Ensuring supply chain stability; supply chain transport support; improving the efficiency of operational logistics activities

Valery Pavlov

PhD, Professor at the GSB – Research in supply chain management; analysis of the influence of behavioral factors on business decision-making; models of bounded rationality

Maxim Rozhkov

Candidate of Sciences in Economics, Associate Professor at the GSB – Supply Chain Management; Digital Technologies in Supply Chains; Optimization Models in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Management specialization, organizational behavior and human resource management, Moscow

Konstantin Bagrationi

Candidate of Sciences in Psychology, Associate Professor at the GSB – Strategic Learning; Corporate Universities; Strategic Coherence

Elena Varshavskaya

Doctor of Sciences in Economics, Professor at the GSB – Knowledge Management

Veronica Kabalina

Candidate of Sciences in History, Professor at the GSB – Assessing the Impact of Corporate Social Investments on Sustainable Development in the Regions of Company Operations; Socially Responsible Human Resource Management; Employee Resilience in an Era of Turbulence: Conditions and Results

Management specialization, financial management topics, Moscow

Dmitrii Volkov

Doctor of Sciences in Economics, Professor at the GSB – Managing Firm Value; Value-Oriented Management

Evgeniia Kiseleva

PhD, Associate Professor at the GSB – Corporate Governance, Corporate Financial Performance & Sustainability, ESG Strategies, Sustainability Disclosure, Value-based Management with ESG Metrics

Management, St. Petersburg

Varvara Nazarova

Candidate of Sciences in Economics, Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg – Development of Theory and Methods for Decision-Making in Social and Economic Systems; Artificial Intelligence Systems to Support Managerial Decision-Making in Companies; Corporate Social Responsibility; Social and Environmental Responsibility of Business; Managing the Sustainable Development of an Organization; ESG Principles of Company Operations; "Green Financing" and Assessment of Its Effectiveness; Organizational Risk Management; Organizational Management in the Context of Digital Transformation; Strategies and Methods for Digital Business Transformation; Methods for Making Investment Decisions in Organizations

Galina Shirokova

Doctor of Sciences in Economics, Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg – Entrepreneurial Strategies Under High Uncertainty and Institutional Turbulence; The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Strategic Entrepreneurship and Capability Development; Organizational Resilience of SMEs Amid Geopolitical Instability and Crises; The Role of CEO Characteristics in Shaping Firm Innovation and Strategic Decision-Making; Bricolage and Adaptive Strategies Under Resource Constraints; Digital Transformation and AI Adoption in SMEs

Management, Nizhny Novgorod

Nadezhda Nikolaevna Butryumova

Candidate of Sciences in Economics, Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Nizhny Novgorod – Managing Organizational and Technological Innovation; Interorganizational Forms of Innovation Management; Methods for Managing Innovation Ecosystems

Mikhail Shushkin

Doctor of Sciences in Economics, Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Nizhny Novgorod – Strategic Management; Open Innovation; Green Technologies