Moscow, June 25, 2009 – Forming its faculty team, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO has set a goal to find reputable professors, giving them the inspiration to work in Russia while collaborating with the school and the companies working on the global market.  This resulted in a team, which features world renowned professors with substantial teaching knowledge and research experience.

SKOLKOVO’s faculty is distinguished not only by the high academic expertise, but also a single view. Wilfried Vanhonacker, SKOLKOVO Dean spoke about the criteria for the faculty selection: “We searched for people, who would share our view and values, and would want to participate in the training of a new generation of leader-entrepreneurs. Professors, who have already reached the top of their academic career, often seek large-scale projects, which provide an opportunity to create something new. At SKOLKOVO they find these new opportunities”.

When inviting the faculty, the school was guided not by the industries, but by the spheres, in which it wants to have the best expertise – rapidly developing markets, entrepreneurship and leadership, and infrastructure. Both teaching and research activities of the professors are focused in these main spheres. The professors will pass their expertise into educational programs, which will change the classical view on business education, which is primarily focused on education through real world projects and stimulating cross-functional thinking.

The SKOLKOVO team combines the expertise of the leading foreign and Russian professors, who have vast academic and practical experience.

Pierre Casse - leadership professor - is from Steinbeis University (Berlin), IEDC-Bled School of Management (Slovenia) and IAE University Aix-en-Provence (France). Pierre is an expert in organizational behavior, international markets and intercultural differences, as well as in negotiations and strategic leadership.

Ingemar Dierickx – is a negotiation dynamics professor of SKOLKOVO; he developed the Negotiation Dynamics programme at INSEAD. Game Theory and its application in the negotiations analysis and strategic management lies within his teaching and research activities. 

Serge Hayward from the ESSEC school in France and London School of Economics, who had also worked in the Dijon Higher School Of Economics (ESC)/Bourgogne Business School, France, is the professor of finance and the SKOLKOVO FT MBA program director. His areas of expertise include financial modeling and forecasting with artificial intelligence and other. 

Alan Kantrow is  a management professor of SKOLKOVO and Director of the Infrastructure Research Centre (SIRC) – has been for almost 15 years the senior partner and content managing director of Monitor Group, and before he had been a partner of McKinsey & Company and the Europe and Asia-Pacific Region communications director.  Before McKinsey, Alan occupied the post of the Harvard Business Review chief editor.

Seung Ho "Sam" PARK – professor, SKOLKOVO Chair Professor of Strategy and President of Institute for Emerging Market Studies (SIEMS) – formerly occupied the post of President of Samsung Economic Research Institute China, and chair British American Tobacco Professor. He is an internationally recognized scholar in joint ventures and alliances, emerging market strategies, and the role of multinational companies.

Elizabeth Sadova, who teaches the Executive Education programs since the school’s establishment, is a SKOLKOVO professor of leadership and organizational behavior. Elizabeth has worked in the business education sphere for more than ten years.  

Vikas Tibrewala, business professor and President of the SKOLKOVO Leaders Forum - was the Executive Director and Senior Faculty Member in Monitor Executive Development, where he was head of the European practice. Professor Tibrewala has worked in INSEAD for 19 years, and his teaching and research interests are focused on the development of effective marketing in companies.

Steven Weber  -  SKOLKOVO management  professor  - previously  worked as a Political Science  professor  and  professor in  School of Information in  University of California Berkeley.  Some of his teaching  and  research interests include international relations theory, international institutions, political economy of networks, American foreign policy.

The Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO is a joint project by major Russian and International business leaders. SKOLKOVO is a dynamically developing international business school with a vision based on a unique mix of three dimensions: entrepreneurial leadership, emerging markets and experiential learning. SKOLKOVO focuses on developing a new type of manager — leaders who will be in demand in the 21st century, the age of human resources and the age of rapidly changing global markets.

Being realized in partnership with the government of the Russian Federation, SKOLKOVO is a part of the national priority projects programme, funded exclusively by private business. Dmitry Medvedev, the President of the Russian Federation is the Chairman of the SKOLKOVO International Advisory Board.

Since 2006 SKOLKOVO holds short term Executive Education programmes. Executive MBA programme opened in January 2009. Full-time MBA is due to start in September 2009.

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