About the Department

The Department of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (OB and HRM) was established in 2020 during the creation of the Graduate School of Business (GSB) through the reorganization of the Faculty of Business and Management (FBM). The subject foundation of the OB and HRM Department was formed by the topics of organizational behavior and human resource management, which were key to the HRM department of the FBM. The Department provides teaching of disciplines in these subjects across Bachelor's, Master's, PhD, MBA, DBA, and other continuing professional education programs of the GSB, as well as in programs of several other HSE University divisions, and in the Magolego format for the university's master's students.

As of September 1, 2026, the OB and HRM Department employs 17 full-time faculty members (15 of them at 1.0 FTE) and 7 visiting lecturers. Among the full-time faculty, there are two Doctors of Sciences and six Candidates of Sciences. The Department employs one Honored, Tenured Professor of HSE University. The average age of the Department's full-time faculty is 49 years, and that of the visiting faculty is 35 years.

In 2020–2025, the Department's faculty published the results of their research in such first-quartile (Q1) academic journals as: European Management Review, Journal of Management Development, and Foresight and STI Governance. In addition, they authored books and book chapters published by the HSE University Graduate School of Business Publishing House. During this period, the department's faculty also prepared 9 teaching cases based on the best practices of Russian companies, which were included in the GSB case collection, as well as one analytical report.

The Department's staff (1.0 FTE and part-time) includes seven Professors of Practice and one Associate Professor of Practice. Among them are experienced top managers who have prior experience or are currently working as members of Boards of Directors and Management Boards, vice presidents, and heads of departments of leading Russian and international companies:

- State-owned companies: State Development Corporation VEB.RF, PJSC Rostelecom;

- High-tech companies: PJSC VimpelCom, OJSC MegaFon;

- Banks: PJSC VTB, JSC UniCredit Bank, Expobank, Rosbank;

- Educational centers: Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO.

Some of the department's faculty have served as top managers of international companies such as Egon Zehnder, Coca-Cola HBC, Danone, Baker Hughes, and Lafarge. Many of them hold MBA degrees from leading global (INSEAD, Antwerp Business School, IMD Business School) and Russian business schools. The department's faculty are members of the Expert Council of the "Leaders of Russia" contest, have worked as members of councils and commissions of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE), have many years of experience serving as chairpersons of the HR committee of the Russian Managers Association, and participate in competition commissions for awarding significant and honorary HR awards of the country