Program Overview

Economics and Management in Business Development

Programme Overview

The Master's Degree in Economics and Management in Business Development is based on the concept of sustainable economic, social, and environmental development of society and the formation of a national industrial ecosystem. The programme aims to train a new type of manager, combining the skills of economist, manager, and entrepreneur, capable of managing the development of companies.

Programme Description

The programme provides training and research in all key areas of economics and management of business development, including:

• Operational management and logistics
• Economics of the firm
• Business ecosystems in the digital economy
• Strategic management
• Finance and taxes
• Business information analysis
• Financing and management of investment and innovation projects
• Business process management
• Innovation management
• Marketing in the information society
• Theory and practice of innovative entrepreneurship
• Team building and leadership
• Architecture

Main Courses

The programme includes the following main courses:

• Business economics: contemporary challenges
• Modern management
• Enterprise economics in the digital age
• Marketing in information society
• Enterprise architecture and data analysis using modern programming languages
• Corporate finance and financial analysis
• Strategic management and marketing
• Production and operations management and logistics
• Innovation management
• Human resource management — advanced level
• Innovative marketing models
• Project Seminar: Master classes on entrepreneurship organisation and company management
• Methods of detecting financial fraud

Our Advantages

The programme offers:

• Comprehensive coverage of the company's activities and development of skills for management decision-making based on analysis
• Extensive experience of the programme faculty in business consultancy
• Courses and masterclasses by company representatives
• Extracurricular research and practical activities
• Individual educational trajectories through the choice of electives, optional subjects, and online courses
• Development of professional management and entrepreneurial skills based on the combination of a basic knowledge base with the development of business creation or development projects within the framework of the Entrepreneurial University model

Career Opportunities

Internship Organisations

The programme has partnerships with the following organisations for internships:

• Gazprom
• Baltika Breweries
• Maxidom
• Sberbank of Russia
• Technopark St Petersburg (Ingria Business Incubator)
• Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
• St Petersburg Committee for Investments and Strategic Projects
• St Petersburg Finance Committee
• St Petersburg Labour and Employment Committee
• St Petersburg Federal Treasury Office
• Office of the Federal Tax Service of Russia in St Petersburg
• St Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Primary Career Options

Graduates of the programme can pursue careers as:

• Managers of commercial and non-commercial organisations
• Managers and specialists of departments and other subdivisions of organisations and development projects
• Specialists of organisations in the field of management consultancy
• Managers and specialists of structural departments in the field of corporate social responsibility and sustainable development
• Managers and professionals in other areas of employment and entrepreneurship
• Head of Sustainable Development
• Sustainability Strategy Implementation Manager
• Head of CSR
• Head of Social Projects
• Social Projects Manager
• External Communications Project Manager
• Corporate Relations Manager
• Deputy Director for Organisational Development
• Charity Manager
• ESG Manager

Programme Details

• Level of education: Master
• Type of instruction: Full-time
• Duration: 2 years
• Language of instruction: Russian