Yury E. Blagov

Director of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Center for Corporate Social Responsibility

Associate Professor, Strategic and International Management Department

EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC DEGREES

Candidate of Sciences in Economics (First Doctoral Degree), St. Petersburg State University, 1987.

Specialist Degree in Political Economy (with distinction), Department of Economics, St. Petersburg State University, 1981.

Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategic Integration and Competitiveness (Executive Program), ESADE Business School/Stanford Graduate School of Business, Barcelona, 2008.

The Duke Program for Manager Development (Executive Program), Duke University Fuqua School of Business, 1994.

RESEARCH

Evolution of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) concept
CSR and strategic management
Management of the Corporate Social Performance

SELECTED PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS

Monographs:

Blagov Y. Corporate social responsibility: the evolution of the concept. SPb. Graduate School of Management. 2010.

Blagov Y., Djomin V. Science and space: the SMC strategy. L.: Leningrad University. 1991.

National Reports:

Report on social investments in Russia 2008: integrating CSR principles into corporate strategy / Y.Blagov, S.Litovchenko, E.Ivanova (eds). Moskow: The Russian Managers Association. 2008. (Lead author).

Analytical report for People Investor 2009 research / People Investor 2009: innovation approach to business in times of crisis. Moskow: The Russian Managers Association. 2010. (Lead author).

Papers in Academic Journals:

Corporate social responsibility: challenges to the managerial education // Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Management Series. 2010. No 2. P. 143–156.

Corporate social performance: CSR as a system // Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Management Series. 2009. No 3. P. 32–37.

Corporate social responsibility in Russia: the lessons of the national report on social investments // Russian Management Journal. 2009. Vol. 7, No. 1. P. 3–24. (in co-authorship with E.Ivanova).

Corporation as a moral agent // Russian Management Journal. 2006. Vol. 4. No. 4. P. 93–98.

The genesis of the corporate social responsibility concept // Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Management Series. 2006. No 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. No 4. P. 169–177.

The concept of corporate social responsibility and strategic management // Russian Management Journal. 2004. Vol.2. No 3. P. 17–34.

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. No 2. P. 151–159.

Specifics of applying Integrative social contracts theory to the analysis of Russian business ethics // Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Management Series. 2002. No 1. P. 39–53.

Papers in Professional Journals:

Corporate social responsibility and business education // Business education. 2007. No 1 (22). P. 49–52.

Social responsibility of business and strategic management // Personal-mix. 2004. No 3 (22). P. 109–112.

Business ethics: the essential introduction // Top-Manager. 2003. No 12. P. 8–14.

Published Cases:

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.

INTERNSHIPS ABROAD

Visiting Scholar Programs at Haas School of Business (2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994), UC Berkeley.

Teachers Development Programs at IFL (Swedish Institute of Management) and ABB Co., 1999; HEC–Paris, 2006.

Summer School in Ethics of Capitalism at Central European University (CEU), 1998.

Post-Doctoral DAAD Fellowship, Bremen University (Germany), 1991–1992.

HONORS AND AWARDS OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Honorary official of the High professional education of the Russian Federation Award, 2004.

Diplomas of the Russian Council for Management Education, 2000; Russian Ministry of general and professional education, 1999; Academic Council of the SPbSU, 1997.

Curriculum development Grant, Citibank, 2001–2003.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Visiting Professorships:

Moskow School of Management Skolkovo, 2010.
Aalto University, 2009, 2010.
UC Berkeley, 1998.
St.Mary’s College of California, 1995–1997, 1999–2005.

In-company ExEd Programs:

Severstal, StatoilHydro, European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), 2008–.

Professional Associations Memberships:

Academy of International Business, 2010 –.
International Academy of Organizational Sciences, 2010 –.
Caux Round Table, 2006–.
European Business Ethics Network (EBEN), 1996 –.

Editorial Boards of Research Journals Memberships:

Vestnik (Herald) of Saint Petersburg University. Management Series, 2009 – (editor).
Corporate Governance: The international journal of business and society, 2006 –.
Russian Management Journal, 2003 –.
Global Outlook: An International Journal of Business, Economics and Social Policy, 1998–2003.

Other Councils/Committees memberships:

Graduate School of Management at SPbSU Academic Council, 1994 –.
SPbSU Academic Council, 2003 –.
Advisory Committee for the project «Growing inclusive markets initiative for Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States» (UNDP), 2009 –.
Advisory Committee for the Council for non-financial reporting of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, 2010–.
Advisory Committee for the national projects People Investor 2010 and Leaders of the Corporate Charity 2009.

International Conferences Chairing:

IX Annual Colloquium and VIII PhD Conference of “EABIS-Academy of Business in Society” 2010: “Corporate Responsibility and Emerging Markets”. St.Petersburg, September 20–22, 2010.

XI International Conference of RABE: “The Role of Business Education in the development of the business social responsibility”. Jordan. November 3–10, 2007.

Annual research Conference of EBEN: “Normative Foundations of Corporate Responsibility”. St.Petersburg. June 15–17, 2006.