Olga Annushkina

Olga Annushkina is Associate Professor of Practice in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at SDA Bocconi School of Management.

Her collaboration with SDA Bocconi began in 2003. Since then, she has run numerous courses on strategic management, internationalization strategy and scenario planning. She has conducted numerous education and executive education projects for companies (energy, electronics, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods), banks and insurance companies. She is the Coordinator of the FT MBA.

Her research activities focus on four main topics: international business, emerging markets, differentiation strategy in a global context and strategy execution.

She is the author of numerous books and articles on her topics of interest. Her works have been published in Economia & Management, Critical Perspectives on International Business, the European Journal of International Management and International Finance Review, among others. She was a SDA Bocconi coordinator for Italy for the Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum (2004-07), Aspen Junior Fellow (2007-10) and Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Business Administration at Moscow State University (Russia) and Munich Business School (Germany). She is the winner of seven awards for excellence and innovation in teaching and in research.Before becoming a faculty member at SDA Bocconi, she worked for several leading management consulting companies.

She earned an MSc in Finance and a Ph.D. In Management from the Moscow State University (Russia) and an MBA from SDA Bocconi School of Management.

Teaching domains

• Multinational Companies Management
• Growth Strategy
• Scenario Planning
• Globalization
• Adaptation Strategies

Companies

• Professore a contratto Bocconi University (2003)
• Associate Professor of Practice SDA Bocconi (2003)
• Senior Lecturer SDA Bocconi School of Management (2003 — 2003)
• Consultant Bain & Company (2001 — 2003)
• Consultant Value Partners (2000 — 2001)
• Consultant KPMG (1996 — 1998)

Latest publications

ANNUSHKINA O., REGAZZO A. The Art of Going Global. A Practical Guide to a Firm's International Growth Palgrave Macmillan, Great Britain, 2020

ANNUSHKINA O., MERCHANT H., TRINCA COLONEL R., BERSELLI E. How do emerging markets differ from developed markets?: A conceptual and empirical analysis in Handbook of Contemporary Research on Emerging Markets H. Merchant (Eds),Edward Elgar Publishing, chap. 1, 2016

ANNUSHKINA O., INVERNIZZI G. Strategy Execution at Mediolanum Bank in The Italian Model of Management L.Serio (Eds),Greenleaf Publishing, pp.103-119, 2016

ANNUSHKINA O., GRYAZNOVA A., MARSHEVA V. Art of Management. Experience of orchestra directors (L’arte di dirigere. Esperienza dei direttori d’orchestra) Economia & Management, 2015, vol.2, pp.89-111

ANNUSHKINA O. The internationalization of Russian mobile telecommunications operators in Emerging Market Firms in the Global Economy (International Finance Review, Volume 15) C. Pattnaik, V. Kumar(Ed), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.121-144, 2014

ANNUSHKINA O., TRINCA COLONEL R. Foreign market selection by russian MNEs: beyond a binary approach? Critical Perspectives on International Business, 2013, vol.9, no. 1/2, pp.58-87