XVIII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HISTORY OF MANAGEMENT THOUGHT AND BUSINESS “SCENARIO-BASED MANAGEMENT: ORIGINS, CHALLENGES, SOLUTIONS”

• "Development of Management Concepts" (1996),
• "Enterprise Restructuring in Transitional Economy: Theory and Practice" (1998),
• "Government and Business" (2000),
• "Development of Personnel Management” ( 2001),
• "Problems of Measurement in the Management" (2002, 2003),
• "Scientific Managerial Concepts vs. Real Management" (2004, 2005),
• "The Russian Model of Management: Past, Present and Future" (2008),
• "National Models of Management" ( 2009)
• "Business Models: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" (2010),
• “Social Responsibility of Business and Management Ethics” (2011),
• “Business and Management Ethics: Comparative Analyses of National Models” (2012).
• “From Stratagems to Strategies, From Strategic Planning to Strategic Thinking and  Enlightenment” (2013)
• "Problems of training managers: yesterday-today-tomorrow" (2014)
• “National Models of Training Managers” (2015)
•  “Scenario-Based Management and Leaderships” (2016)

At the last HMT- conference the participants put forward some ideas on the theme of the next conference, but in most cases it was proposed to continue the study of the problems of Scenario Management raised and discussed at the conference of the HMT in 2016.  The proceedings of the conference HMT-2016 can be found on http://www.econ.msu.ru/elibrary/is/free/.

1. How and why have ideas and views on management about the unpredictability of the business environment varied over the millennia of existence of management ? How relevant was the experience of managers and thinkers of the past to scenario management? Are there historical examples describing the success and failure of this way of thinking and acting? And what methods were used to minimize the risks in the governance of States, in management of military battles, economy, production, the family companies to the unpredictability of the business environment?
2. What are the principal similarities and differences between “Scenario Management” and “Scenario Planning”, between “Scenario Management” and “Forecasts”, between “Scenario Management” and “Strategic management”? What is the role of Leadership in the Scenario Management of organizations?
3. What are the most important reasons to turn to a scenario management? Are there effective and efficient methods and technologies of making managerial decisions under conditions of unpredictability ? How are decision rules created and formulated in solving of problems with uncertainty of the business environment? What problems arise in the Scenario-based management process and in the process of implementation of decision rules?
4. What are the reasons of non-fulfillment solutions caused by the unpredictability of the Business environment? Can the impact of these conditions be eliminated or  be minimized? What is the ratio between the Resource Approach and the Target Approach to minimize risks of non-implementation of the scenarios?
5. What competencies should be possessed by the developers and managers of scenarios? What is the role of managers in the process of implementation of managerial decisions in conditions of uncertainty and unpredictability of the business environment?
6. How can students be trained and/or coached to develop scenarios as decision rules in managerial problems with uncertainty, and to use Scenario Management as the system of implementation of the scenarios?

 THE ORGANIZERS OF THE CONFERENCE:

• Lomonosov Moscow State University (LMSU)
• The Faculty of Economics of the Moscow State University (FE LMSU)
• The Association of graduates of the FE LMSU
• Non-commercial partnerships «Life Long Learning Centre» (Russia)
• International Magazine «Problems of Theory and Practice of Management»
• Magazine “Managerial Sciences” 

HMTB-2017 Organizing Committee:

• Alexander Auzan,  Co-Chairman of the OC, Dean of the FE LMSU, Professor;
• Vasily Kolesov, Co-Chairman of the OC, President of the FE LMSU, Professor;
• Vadim Marshev, Co-Chaiman of the OC, Professor
• Andrey Schastitko, Vice-Chairman of the OC, Professor

Members of the OC:

• Professor Oleg Vikhanskiy
• Professor  Natalia Ivaschenko
• Professor Michael Palt 

Technical members of the Organizing Committee:

• Ivan Dvoluchansky
• Svetlana Shchelokova
•  Natalia Rozenberg
•  Irina Suslova (FE LMSU) 

19 дек 2016