Saint Petersburg State University Graduate School of Management
The Graduate School of Management, GSOM is one of the 22 schools of Saint Petersburg State University. It was founded in 1993 as School of Management later renamed to preserve consistency into Faculty of Management. In 2005, it was chosen to become a part of the National Priority Project in Education aimed at creating two leading business schools in Russia. Within the framework of the project, the school was transformed into GSOM and granted the Mikhailovka estate in Petergof to create a campus.
History
- 25 May 1992: The University's Academic Council votes for creating the School of Management
- 4 November 1992: The University signs a cooperation agreement with Haas School of Business
- 25 January 1993: The University Rector signs an order on opening the School
- 1 September 1993: The School starts teaching. It counts six professors and 33 bachelor students. The first dean is elected Prof. Yu. V. Pashkus. The School is supervised by an International Advisory Board chaired by John E. Pepper, Jr., CEO, Procter & Gamble.
- 1994: The first two chairs appear: Management Theory and Public Administration.
- 1995: The School opens a Career Center.
- 1996: The School is renamed into Faculty. Another chair, Finance, is opened. The Faculty receives a new facility in Volkhovsky Pereulok.
- 1997: The Faculty congratulates its first 27 graduates. Upon Prof. Pashkus's death, Valery Katkalo is elected the dean. Admission is broadened with:
- * Specialist's degrees in Management, Marketing, HR;
- * Master's degree in Management;
- * Candidate of Sciences' degree in Management.
- 1998: The Faculty opens two more chairs: HR and Strategic Management & Marketing.
- 1999: The Faculty greets its first 19 Masters and opens an English-speaking ECTS-compliant program, Master of International Business, in cooperation with four Nordic business schools.
- 2000: The Faculty launches its first MBA program, two new chairs: International Management and Information Management, Management Consultancy Center, and Publishing Center.
- 2001: The Faculty greets its first 22 graduates in Public Administration.
- 2002: The Faculty opens its new premises in Volkhovsky Pereulok, greets its first 27 MBA graduates and launches its first research journal. An alumni association is created.
- 2003: The Faculty launches its second research journal, the Russian Management Journal.
- 2004: The Faculty creates its R&D institute, signs an agreement with four European business schools to create an International Executive MBA program, and joins AACSB.
- 2005: Most programs have transferred to the Bologna model, the Faculty starts offering Doktor Nauk's degree.
- 2006: The Faculty joins CEMS and EFMD and launches an Executive MBA program. President Vladimir Putin lays a cornerstone into the foundation of the school's new campus in Mikhailovka, a former royal estate in Petergof.
- 2007: The Graduate School of Management is created by uniting the Faculty and Institute of Management, with a new Advisory Board headed by Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov.
- 2008: GSOM launches corporate education programs in cooperation with Fuqua School of Business, joins PIM, and gets accredited by AMBA and EPAS.
- 2009: GSOM joins GMAC and launches a Dual-Degree Executive MBA program in cooperation with HEC Paris.
Programs
- Bachelor's degree:
- * International Management
- * Financial Management
- * Marketing
- * Information Management
- * HR Management
- * Logistics
- Master's degree:
- * Master of International Business
- * Master in International Technology & Innovation Management
- * Master in Corporate Finance
- Master's dual-degree:
- * within the MIB, MITIM, MCF programs
- * CEMS Master in International Management
- * HEC-Paris
- * School of Business, Lappeenranta University of Technology
- Executive Education:
- * Executive MBA
- ** Dual-Degree Executive MBA in English
- ** Executive MBA in Russian
- * Corporate Education
- * Open Programs
- * Professional Development Programs
- Candidate's and Doctor's degrees
Faculty and structure
Director
The Director of the General School of Management St. Petersburg University is the Russian banker Andrey L. Kostin, President and Chairman of the Management Board of VTB Bank.Advisory Council
GSOM is supervised by the Advisory Council chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov. Among its members are:- Alberto J. Verme, Citi
- Alexey Miller, Gazprom
- Andrey Fursenko, Minister of Education and Science
- Andrey Kostin, VTB
- Bernard Ramanantsoa, HEC Paris
- Blair Sheppard, Fuqua School of Business
- David Teece, Haas School of Business
- Dezső Horváth, Schulich School of Business
- Elvira Nabiullina, Minister of Economic Development
- Frédéric Rozé, L’Oréal
- German Gref, Sberbank
- John E. Pepper, Jr., The Walt Disney Company
- Kirill Kornilyev, IBM
- Leif Pagrotsky, Sveriges Riksbank
- Les Hayman, SAP AG
- Nelly Dennis, PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Oleg Deripaska, BasEl, RUSAL
- Robert A. "Bob" McDonald, Procter & Gamble
- Rustam Tariko, Russian Standard Bank
- Sergey Bogdanchikov, Rosneft
- Sergey Chemezov, Russian Technologies State Corporation
- Valentina Matvienko, Governor of St. Petersburg
- Vladimir Potanin, Interros
- Vladimir Yakunin, RZD
- Vladimir Yevtushenkov, AFK Sistema
Chairs
- Finance and Accounting
- IT in Management
- Marketing
- Operations Management
- Organizational Behavior and Personnel Management
- Public Administration
- Strategic and International Management
Faculty and students
Premises and facilities
GSOM is headquartered in Arthur B. Schultz building at 1-3 Volkhovsky Pereulok, which houses the administration, library, publishing house and all the post-graduate programs. Graduate programs are located in GSOM's first building at 16 Dekabristov Pereulok. In 2006, the school was given a former royal suburban estate Mikhailovka in Petergof to reconstruct it and create its campus. The long-neglected property was found in a very poor condition, and despite the federal funding of billions of rubles, it is still under development.GSOM has some dormitory premises on Vasilievsky Island, close to the school buildings. However, this appears to be insufficient, and some students have to commute from the University dormitories in Petergof.
Rankings and accreditations
In 2012 GSOM obtained institutional accreditation EQUIS. Today it is the first and currently the only in Russia and CIS business school that gained this international accreditation. The quality of educational programs is approved by program accreditations: AMBA and EPAS.GSOM SPbSU is a member of global associations of the leading business schools: EFMD, AACSB, CEMS, PIM, EABIS, GBSN, GRLI.
The university's master in international management program was ranked 56 in the "Masters in Management Ranking 2014" by Financial Times.
According to EdUniversal ranking since 2008 GSOM SPbSU is the first among Russian business schools, and in 2013 EdUniversal agreed for the second time that GSOM SPbSU is the best among business schools of Eastern Europe. The Izvestia newspaper ranking, based on interviews with MBA graduates, named GSOM as the first among Russian business schools.