Master in Management — MIM

• Managerial Economics
• Strategic Analysis
• Corporate Finance
• Quantitative Methods for Business Research
• Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
• International Business Strategy
• Consumer Behavior
• Knowledge Management
• Project Management
• Digital Marketing-Management
• Business Analytics and Big Data
• Marketing in Social Media
• Smart Technologies
• Entrepreneurship
• Global Economic Governance
• Behavioral Economics and Decision Making
• Professional Skills of Managers
• Consulting Project
• Foreign Language (German, French, Spanish, Russian)

• Students of the programme can take part in research projects supervised by top scholars of St Petersburg University in different fields of management. This also includes the preparation of their graduation projects. Students have to do summer internship after the first year of study and prepare consulting projects for partner companies of St Petersburg University in the second year of study.

• Focus on practical skills: case studies and analysis of modern practices, guest lectures and courses from leading business practitioners, business representatives and government officials
• Teaching staff with relevant experience in leading international business schools, including guest lecturers from the best foreign business schools as well as leaders of the professional community
• The programme is implemented in English in a cross-cultural environment, which helps to enhance the competitiveness of alumni in the international job market
• Students have an opportunity to get a second degree from the international Global Alliance for Management Education — CEMS Alliance, as well as participate in joint programs with the Higher School of Commerce of Paris (HEC) and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT)
• Students can, on a competitive basis, take a semester of study abroad at one of the leading universities / business schools included in a wide list of academic partners of St Petersburg University
• Students have the opportunity to learn a second foreign language for an additional competitive advantage (French, German, Spanish, Russian as a foreign language). A second foreign language is part of the curriculum and a mandatory requirement for all students

There are more than 80 partners. Among them are:

• The École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris (HEC Paris) (France)
• ESIC Business & Marketing School (Spain)
• Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria)
•  UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, University College Dublin (Ireland)
• Bocconi University (Italy)
• The University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)
• The Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden)
• Nova School of Business & Economics (Portugal)
• Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (the Netherlands)
• Queen’s University School of Business (Canada)
• Babson College (the USA)

MiM students carry out research on contemporary Russian and international company management issues. They focus on different functional areas of management and cover a wide range of research questions at different levels of analysis. Areas of research include:

• Localisation of marketing strategies of multinational companies when entering foreign markets
• Digital transformation in companies
• The impact of employee training practices on innovative work behaviour and firm innovation performance
• Evaluating the impact of corporate social performance and its implications for strategy and business processes
• Factors affecting employee turnover and retention
• The impact of online shopping experience on customer perceptions of food packaging
• The impact of international mergers and acquisitions on the internationalisation of companies
• Target management of financial supply chains
• The benefits of blockchain implementation from a business and consumer perspective

Professions

• Project manager
• Marketing manager
• Product manager
• Brand manager
• Entrepreneur
• Business analyst
• Business consultant