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Tallinn, Estonia
Mall Kulasalu - Estonian history and culture. Introduction to Estonia
Mall Kulasalu has 33 year experience of teaching foreign languages for special purposes(Latin and English) for medical, law international relations and business students. Since 2005 she has been involved in Erasmus Intensive Language Course teaching Estonian language and culture to incoming foreign students. In addition to university students she also teaches Estonian as a foreign language to TUT foreign teaching, academic and research staff.
Alar Kein - Overview of the Estonian economy: Past and Present developments
Alar Kein is associate professor and the head of Department of Finance and Accounting at the Estonian Business School. He also holds a visiting lecturer position at the Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration at the Tallinn University of Technology. He has been teaching the graduate and undergraduate courses in the field of economics and finance since 2003. His portfolio of courses taught includes social cost-benefit analysis, urban economics, public finance, managerial economics, microeconomics and investment management. He has been involved in economic research (incl. international research projects) since 1990s, focusing primarily on the privatization and formation of capital markets, but as well on other issues related to the Estonian economy. He has PhD from Clark University (USA, Massachusetts), where he defended doctoral thesis on the spillover of returns and volatilities and associated asymmetries in the Estonian Stock Market.
Legal aspects of e-society for businesses - Professor Katrin Nyman-Metcalf, Head of Chair of Law and Technology, Tallinn Law School, Tallinn University of Technology.
Main areas of interest include communications law in a wide sense (telecommunications, internet including e-governance, media law, infrastructure issues) especially in post-conflict and developing nations, published extensively in these areas. PhD (1999) on the law of outer space and Master (1987) specialised in EU law from Uppsala University, Sweden. Professor Nyman-Metcalf was Head of EU Law at Riga Graduate School in Latvia 1999-2001 and later visiting professor there. She was professor of EU law and responsible for curricula development at the Institute for European Studies at Tbilisi State University, Georgia, 2006-2009. Apart from her academic work, Professor Nyman-Metcalf works as an international consultant with communications related projects. Currently (2011-2012) she works mainly in Palestine on support to the justice sector; previously she has worked extensively with communications regulators in Bosnia Herzegovina, Kosovo, Albania, Iraq among others. She regularly performs legal analysis for various international organisations like the OSCE Representative of Freedom of the Media.
Intercultural communications - Leon Miller is an instructor at Tallinn University of Technology in the areas of Intercultural Communications, Comparative Culture, and the History of Culture.
In addition he teaches classes in Business Ethics, Business Communications and Organizational Leadership. He is a PhD candidate with a research focus on Ethics, Aesthetics and the Impact of ICT. His research background includes work in organizational leadership and philosophy. He holds a MDiv in Holistic Well-being, a MA in the Psychology of Religion and a BA in Social Psychology. He has a number of peer reviewed publications in the areas of The Global Discourse Ethics, Normative Principles Shaping Global Financial Governance, Global Political Economy, plus Philosophical Views on Ethics, Ontology and Teleology. He is also currently initiating a research project with a TUT research team on intercultural and international relationships between Estonia, Belarus, Latvia and Ukraine (former Soviet countries in the region).
Riga, Latvia
Political, historical and cultural aspects of Latvia
Economic development and trends of economy in Latvia
Entrepreneurship in Latvia – introduction
Entrepreneurship in Latvia – company visit (production or tourism company)
Social business and innovation
Workshop on innovative solutions
Group presentations, feedback, wrap-up
Vilnius, Lithuania
8th August
The fall and rise of Baltic economies
Lecturer: Dr. Nerijus Mačiulis
ISM University of Management and Economics, Swedbank, Chief analyst
Dr. Nerijus Mačiulis has been working for ISM since 2005, from 2008 to 2010 he was Dean of studies. Since 2010 he has been working as a chief analyst for the Swedbank and as a professor at ISM.
His field of research is finance and risk management. Dr. Nerijus Mačiulis teaches Mathematical methods in Economics, supervises Macroeconomic analysis internship, is advisor to many of the master and doctor students. He also serves as member on the doctoral theses committees in Lithuania and abroad and is an author to many publications on finance and economics. Nerijus Mačiulis has been a visiting professor at INSEEC Grande Ecole, Paris and Bordeaux, FHS St Gallen, Switzerland, University of Ballarat, Australia, Technologico de Monterrey. The topics of his lectures include: Financial markets and behavioral finance, Financial options, Global financial crisis, Corporate finance, Investment management.
9th August
Entrepreneurship in Lithuania
Overview of the Baltic region. Competitiveness of Vilnius city. Market development strategies: traditional vs entrepreneurial view. Level of entrepreneurship in Lithuania. Level of Entrepreneurship in EU. Main types of staart-ups. Challenges and opportunities.
Lecturer: Justas Gavėnas
ISM visiting professor
Justas Gavėnas is a visiting lecturer at ISM since 2005. Holding currently associated consultant position at global consulting company A.T. Kearney and business consultant responsibilities at EKT Group Justas Gavėnas gives lectures in Brand Management, Entrepreneurship and Fundamentals of Economics, Business and Management, Pricing, Retailing & Merchandizing for academic, society as well as provides full scope training sessions for business practitioners and entrepreneurs.
Having HVAC&R engineering B.Sc. education at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and holding Master’s of Management degree at Norwegian School of Management (BI) and ISM Justas Gavėnas keeps his further interest in managerial practices in the context of strategic management. A co-founder, co-owner and manager of IT enterprise UAB „Technologijų skliautai“ (2002 – 2006).
Holding his professional specialization in marketing management consultancy, strategy and management consultancy Justas Gavėnas has more than 9 years of solid professional experience in various business sectors: business consultancy, IT, environmental protection etc. Implementation of more than 90 various consultancy projects for enterprises in different fields of activities.
10th August
Between the East and West: logistics in the region. Comparison of the Baltic countries in the region in terms of business environment and competitiveness. Intrabaltic trade. Transport infrastructure.
Lecturer: Benas Adomavičius
ISM lecturer, programme director of Strategic Management programme
Doctoral student, theses: Thesis: Strategic thinking. Lect B.Adomavičius is Program director – Strategic management program at Executive School, consultant at ISM executive school, Lecturer of strategic management course, marketing channels and logistics course (bachelor level), Marketing principles (bachelor level). He also serves as a member of the board for Creditinfo Lietuva, Vilnius. Bena Adomavičius has more than 9 years of solid professional experience in various business sectors: business consultancy, IT, etc., Implementation of various consultancy projects for enterprises in different fields of activities
11th August
Baltic real estate market.
Lecturer: Assoc. prof. Ieva Kvedaravičienė
ISM University of Management and Economics
Ieva Kvedaravičienė has 12 year experience in real estate. In 2000, doctoral thesis (social sciences, management) „Residential estate financing mechanism and its effectiveness” provided theoretical basis for further real estate market (RE) research. RE project management in international audit and consulting company Arthur Andersen was first step in RE practice. Since 2002, Ieva Kvedaravičienė worked as a senior consultant in international real estate company “Koba”, being responsible for investment projects and market research. Establishment and coordination of RE research divisions in the company‟s branches (Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Poland and Denmark) formed broad experience of different RE markets. Since 2008, Ieva Kvedaravičienė has been teaching Real Estate Economics at ISM University of Management and Economics. Ieva Kvedaravičienė is MRICS (Baltic Board member), LTVA, and ICSC member.