Svetlana Liapina

99 Ryazanskiy Prospect
Suite #A-503
Moscow, Russia 109542

Telephone:  (7-095) 371-9102
Fax:  (7-095)371-0562
sliapina@mail.ru

In 1987 Svetlana Y. Liapina became a postgraduate student at the Chair of Machine-building management. The subject matter of her dissertation was “Elaboration of the organization and economic mechanism for managing innovations at industrial enterprises” (PhD, 1990). 

Since 1990 Svetlana Y. Liapina has worked in the Chair of Machine-building Management the State University of Management, Moscow. In 1993 the Chair changed its profile of activity and was named the Chair of Innovation Management. From 1990–1994 she held the post of assistant professor and since1994 has held the post of associate professor. 

At the Chair Dr. Svetlana Y. Liapina delivered lectures on the following disciplines: 

• Organization of Machine-building Management (1990 – 1993);
• Project Management (1994);
• Models and methods of making management decisions (1994 – 1995);
• Foundations of management (from 1995 to the present);
• Innovation Management (from 1995 to the present);
• Risk Management and Insurance (from 1995 to the present).

During her scientific and pedagogical activity she was also a lecturer in elective subjects (Foundations of Banking, Technical Analysis of Financial Markets, etc.). In 1995 – 1996 Dr. Svetlana Y. Liapina worked as visiting professor in the Institute of International Law and Economy (Moscow), and gave lectures on “Organization of production and business.” Dr. Svetlana Y. Liapina also supervised the research and diploma works of students and dissertations of postgraduate students. In 1984 Svetlana Y. Liapina became a staff member of the Research Sector of the State Academy of Management (She has held the post of researcher). The themes of the research works she took part in: 

• The improvement of management of local industry enterprises (PO “Mosmetalloposuda” – metal dishware) – 1984;
• Elaboration of the managing system for the new smith-foundry factory (“Kamyshinskiy kuzlit”) – 1985 – 1987.

Svetlana Y. Liapina was a participant in the scientific research projects:

• Making a managerial system by introducing innovations at machine-building enterprises (1989 – 1991):
• The economy of managing production (1991 – 1992);
• Mathematical modeling of the management of complex objects (1994);
• Elaboration of a methodological device and a concept of teaching in Innovation Management (from 1995 to the present).

Svetlana Y. Liapina took part in elaborating a complex of computer business games, which was used for training students. This complex was exhibited at the Exhibition of National Economic Achievement (VDNKh). Her personal contribution to the creation of the complex was marked by professional honors: 

• VDNKh Bronze medal (1987);
• VDNKh Diploma of Participation (1988);
• VDNKh Silver Medal (1988).

The adaptation of Russian industrial enterprises to the market economy has remained a most difficult problem in the course of the macroeconomic reforms taking place in Russia. A mere change in the form of enterprise ownership doesn’t ensure a growth of production efficiency, and a low adaptability of traditional management to the market conditions has resulted in the production and financial crises of many Russian enterprises. Ensuring the mobility of their enterprises and their adaptability to changing conditions the managers made empirical attempts to implement production and organizational innovation. For lack of scientific and methodological substantiation these measures have brought about the aggravation of the conditions of enterprises. Today, therefore, Innovation Management has become the most vital field of scientific management and risk management of innovation processes in its basic section. Risk Management is a comparatively new field in Business Administration which is rather young in Russia. That is why Dr. Svetlana Y. Liapina is preparing a scholastic complex for students of the Institute of Management in Machine-building (the State University of Management) for the discipline “Risk Management of Innovation Projects” while she was at The George Washington University. To achieve this aim it is necessary to elaborate a complex of teaching aids and methods (about 200 pp.): The Research of Dr. Svetlana Y. Liapina at the George Washington University is supposed to conduct research in the field Risk Management of Organizational Innovation. The research results are planned to be used in the Doctoral Dissertation (Doctor of Economy). Main chapters of the Dissertation are following: 

• Innovation processes as a main tendency of the market reforms and their risks in macro- and microeconomic aspects;
• Classification of the risks of innovation activity;
• Economic modeling of innovation processes for revealing risk zones;
• Classification of the methods of the risk management for innovation projects.
• Shaping of corporate strategies at Russian industrial enterprises in the field of the risk management of innovation activity.

Her publications include:

1. Problems of improving the structure of managing the specialized preparation production // Collection “Improving of management in machine-building”. Dep. INION AN USSR # 28320, 17.02.87. – M¹ ., 1986.
2. The use of the model of production costs at different stages of production for improving the organization of production management (the case of the preparation of machine-building production) / Collection “Development prospects for the system of management in the machine-building complex”. Dep. INION AN USSR # 31008 27.08.87. – M., 1987.
3. Management problems of the introduction of achievements of scientific and management progress into Industrial enterprises today // Collection “Perfecting technical progress management”. Dep. INION AN USSR # 37611 17.04.89. – M., 1988.
4. Apropos of adaptability of innovations // Collection “Technical development of industry”. Dep. INION AN USSR # 41650 24.04.90. – M., 1989.
5. The substation of the mechanism of the NIOKR²  management at enterprises // Collection “Perfecting the industrial management mechanism”. Dep. INION AN USSR # 42511 25.07.90. – M., 1989.
6. Forming an organizational and economic mechanism of innovation management at machine-building enterprises // Dep. INION, # 41418 27.03.90. – M., 1990.
7. Fixing a number of temporary work collectives on the basis of evaluation of the managerial enterprise system adaptability // Problems of and prospects for market economy. Dep. INION AN USSR # 44653 28.05.91. – M., 1991
8. Procedural instructions for the elaboration of production management object programs with the use PC “Iskra-226”. – M., The Moscow Institute of Management publishers, 1989.
9. Procedural instructions for conducting the business move “Self-supporting” with the use of a computer // M., The Moscow Institute of Management Publishers, 1987.
10. Procedural instructions for conducting the business move “Alternative” with the use of a computer // M., The Moscow Institute of Management Publishers, 1989.
11. Procedural instructions for conducting the business move “Principle” with the use of a computer // M., The State Academy of Management Publishers, 1992.
12. Procedural instructions for performing a tests in the “Organization of production and business” course. M.: IMPE³ , 1996
13. Procedural instructions for an undergraduate thesis (specialist essay) “Elaboration of a business plan for innovation project” // M., The State Academy of Management Publishers, 1997.
14. Risk Management for Innovation Projects. – M.: Fininova, 1999.
15. Evaluation of the adaptation of the business complex managing system to innovations // Collection “Improvement of the production management’s organizational and economic mechanism”. – M., 1989.
16. Labor Regulation in innovation processes // Collection “Perfecting labor organization under the new economic condition”. – M., VNCentr, 1990.
17. Investment fund Strategy // Bulletin “Capital markets”, # 2, 1994.
18. Regions borrow. Actively // Newspaper “Rossiyskaya gazeta”, 12.11.94.
19. Four problems of the stock market // Newspaper “Finansivaya gazeta”, # 4, 1995.
20. To buy or not to buy shares of water transport? // Journal “Rynok Tzennykh Boomag”, # 8, 1997.
21. From simple to intricate // Newspaper “Business express”, # 31, 1997.
22. The treasury note market in the mirror of AK&M poll // Review “Business world”, # 144, 1997.
23. Rating is a sound compass of the treasury note market // Journal “Rynok Tzennykh Boomag”, # 14, 1997
24. The packet of applied and educational programs (on the base of PC “Iskra-226”). – M., VDNKh USSR, 1987.
25. Case study “Replacement of additional issue of JSC “Krasnyi Oktyabr” shares”// Case study collection. – M.: Morozov project, 1998

End notes 
¹M. = Moscow return
²NIOKR – the scientific, research and design works return
³IMPE – The Institute of International Law and Economics returnShe is married and has two daughters.