April 26, 2007

The Graduate School of Management, Sankt Petersburg State University, Russia has invited Dr. Ichak Adizes to lecture to the faculty, PhD and MBA students as well as for the participants from their partner institutions, media representatives and business community.

Over the course of its 12 years of development, the School of Management at St. Petersburg State University has gained the reputation of being one of the leading Russian business schools. The School was opened at the oldest Russian university in 1993 with a view to support the formation of market economy in Russia. SOM was created in alliance with the W. A. Haas Business School at the University of California, Berkeley – one of the leading business schools in the world. The uniqueness of the GSM development model is predetermined by the successful synthesis of the classical university traditions and innovational approaches to business education. The adherence to such strategic values as profound internationalization of academic and research projects, accentuation of new knowledge creation and intensive links with the business community is the necessary condition for further connecting the GSM business model with those of the leading international management schools.

Graduate School of Management (GSM), Sankt Petersburg State University

GSM has 24 academic partners among the best European and US business schools and universities, organizing student exchanges based on bilateral credits transfer. However, the successful careers of SOM alumni are the main criterion in determining SOM’s high standards of education. Nowadays their “family” accounts for more than 2000 professional managers working successfully in different regions of Russia and abroad, in the leading Russian and international companies. These are the companies which take part in our Career Days, provide the internship opportunities for GSM students and recruit its alumni. Owing to the achievements in several directions the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University is today the national leader in integration into the world system of business education. GSM is developing a portfolio of degree programs that is unique for Russian management schools — from the Bachelor’s Degree to the MBA and the Doctoral Program.

Below is a short description of the topic that Dr. Adizes have selected for his lecture in St. Petersburg:

How Organizations Grow and Age and What to Do About It

Corporations, like living organisms, experience predictable patterns of behavior as they grow and develop. They are faced with specific transitional problems as they progress through the various stages of their lifecycle. How leadership addresses these issues and makes the changes needed for a healthy transition determines the success or failure of an organization. Participants will discover which of the transitional problems encountered are normal, abnormal or fatal and how to deal with them in order to accelerate growth.

For more information about this lecture please contact:

Ms. Maria Dorokhina
Project manager
Graduate School of Management
Saint Petersburg State University
3, Volkhovskiy per.
Saint-Petersburg, 199004, Russia
+7 (812) 323 84 64
dorokhina@som.pu.ru
http://www.som.pu.ru