Yury E. BLAGOV

The Department of Strategic & International Management

Associate Professor

E-mail: blagov@gsom.pu.ru

BLAGOV
 
Date of Birth June 3, 1959
Academic Position Associate Professor

Administrative Position

Director, Center for Corporate Social Responsibility
At GSOM since
 
1993
 
Education
  • Executive Education: “Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategic Integration and Competitiveness”, ESADE Business School (Spain) / Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA), 2008;
  • Summer School: “Ethics of Capitalism”, Central European University (Hungary), 1998;
  • Executive Education: “The Duke Program for Manager Development”, Fuqua School of Business at Duke University (USA), 1994;
  • Summer School on Foreign Policy, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at John-Hopkins University, 1990;
  • PhD in Economics, Leningrad State University,1987;
  • Diploma, Leningrad State University, Economic Department, 1981

Study Tours

Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization, University of California, Berkeley, Research Associate (USA), 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Current Research and Interests
  • Development of the corporate social responsibility concept
  • CSR and strategic management
  • Management of the corporate social performance
 
Courses taught
at GSOM
  • Business History (Undergraduate program)
  • Business Ethics (Undergraduate program)
  • Cross-Cultural Management and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Information Age (Master program)
  • Business and Society (EMBA program)
Academic Positions
Held
GSOM: 1993 – present
Associate Professor of Business and Society
 
School of Economics, St.Petersburg State University: 1982-1984, 1988 - 1993
Associate Professor of International Economics,1991–1993
Assistant Professor of Political Economy of Capitalism, 1982–1984, 1988–1991
 
Administrative Positions
  • Director, Center for Corporate Social Responsibility, since 2008;
  • Director of the Program for Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, 2005–2008;
  • Chair of International Management Department, 2000–2007;
  • Director of Master of International Business (MIB) program, 1999-2005;
  • Deputy Dean for Master programs, 2007;
  • Deputy Dean for Instruction, 1993-1998, 1999-2000;
  • First Deputy Dean, 1998-1999

 

 
International Teaching
Experience
1997, 1999–2005, Business and Society in Modern Russia (Under-graduate programs), Saint Mary's College of California (USA);
1998, Business and Society in Modern Russia (Under-graduate programs), University of California at Berkeley (USA)
 
Honors and Awards
  • Honorary official of the High professional education of the Russian Federation  Award, 2004;
  • Curriculum development Grant, Citibank, 2001–2003;
  • Research Grant, University of Bremen (Germany), Deutscher Academischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), 1991–1992

 
Selected Papers and Publications Report on Social Investments in Russia – 2008 / Ed. by Y.Blagov, S.Litovchenko, E.Ivanova. – Moskow: Russian Managers Association, 2008 (Lead author)

Corporation as a Moral Agent // Russian Management Journal. 2005. Vol. 4. # 4. P. 93–98.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Business-Education // Business-Education. 2007. # 1 (22). P. 49–52.

The Genesis of the Corporate Social Responsibility Concept // Vestnik SPbSU. Management Series. 2006. # 2. P. 3–24.
 
Business History As the Path of Learning. A Review of Chandler A.D., Jr. Inventing the Electronic Century: the Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries. The Free Press, 2001 // Russian Management Journal. 2005. Vol. 3. # 4. P. 169–177.
 
The Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility and Strategic Management // Russian Management Journal. 2004. Vol.2. # 3. P. 17–34.
 
Ethical Norms in Business (in co-authorship with Y.Ignatiev).  St.Petersburg, 2004.
 
The Social Responsibility of Business and Strategic Management // Personal-Mix. 2004. # 3 (22). P. 109–112.
 
Business Ethics: the Essential Introduction // Top-Manager. 2003. #12. P. 8–14.
 
Business and Society: The New Paradigm. A Review of Post J.E., Preston L.E., Sachs S. Redefining the corporation: Stakeholder management and organizational wealth. Stanford University Press: Stanford, 2002 // Russian Management Journal.  2003. Vol.1. # 2. P. 151–159.
 
“Too much” doesn’t Exist: Research on the Reputation of the Companies from the North-West Region Demonstrates the Extraordinary Equilibrium of the Business-Stakeholders Relations (in co-authorship with S.Ageev)// Expert “North-West”. 2003. # 46. P. 22-24.
 
Alfred Chandler and the Business History // Vestnik SPbSU. Management Series. 2002. # 4. P. 95–101.
 
Specifics of Applying Integrative Social Contracts Theory to the Analysis of Russian Business Ethics // Vestnik SPbSU. Management Series. 2002. # 1. P. 39–53.
 
The Integrative Social Contract Theory and the Features of Ethical Decision Making in the Modern Russian Business // Center for management and institutional studies, School of Management , St.Petersburg State University. Working paper series, 2002-18.
 
Commercial firm “Shick”: social responsibility in small and medium-size business (in co-authorship with M.Zuravkova) // S.P.Kouchtch (ed.). Collection of Case-studies: Experience of Russian Companies (North-West region). SPb.: SPbSU Publishing House, 2003.
 
Ethics of Russian Business: Development of National Concept // Vestnik SPbSU. Economics Series. 1997, #2. P. 73–77. 

 
External Service and Assignments
Editorial activities:
2003 – present, “Russian Management Journal”, Editorial Board Member;
2006 – present, “Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business and Society”, Editorial Advisory Board Member;
1998–2003, “Global Outlook”, Editorial Board Member
 
Resent teaching in Corporate programs:
2008: Severstal, StatoilHydro

Recent consulting:
1999 – present: Ethical Business of St.Petersburg program

 
Membership of scientific or professional organization
Member, Caux Round Table, 2006-present
Member, Russian Managers' Association, 2003-present,
Member, Russian Council for Management Education, 1997-present
Member, European Business Ethics Network (EBEN), 1996-present
 

 
Links

Caux Round Table: www.cauxroundtable.org

Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business and Society: www.emeraldinsight.com

Ethical Business of St.Petersburg Program: www.etica.ru

European Business Ethics Network: www.eben-net.org 

Russian Council for Management Education: www.umoman.ru  

Russian Managers' Association: www.amr.ru

Russian Management Journal: www.rjm.ru

Saint-Mary's College of California: www.stmarys-ca.edu