Hanna Yakavenka
Job title
Programme Director, MA/MBA International Business
Department
International Business and Economics
Qualifications
BA Hons, MA, MRes, PhD
Dr Hanna Yakavenka has been working at University of Greenwich Business School since 2006 while teaching and researching in the field of international business, cross-cultural management and business research methodologies. Currently she manages the MBA/MA International Business programme.
In her PhD (obtained from the Manchester Metropolitan University Business School) Dr Yakavenka investigated the impact of international management knowledge transfer on business education programmes in a post-Soviet environment. The key research question was how knowledge transforms when it is transferred cross-culturally and whether local agents are capable of dealing with the complexities of the transfer to enable effective utilisation of the outcomes in the host environment.
Dr Yakavenka is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the National HE Advisory Group in 14–19 BAF Diplomas Initiative and The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
Research/scholarly interests
- Cross-cultural knowledge transfer
- Transitional economies
- FDI in post-Soviet environment
- Communication skills and lifelong learning
- Professional development
