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NUGSB’s objectives stem from three main, mutually intertwined categories – teaching, research and service. In order to train and prepare the new generation of managers, entrepreneurs, and leaders of Kazakhstan and the region, the school puts cutting edge research at the heart of its mission. By engaging in world-class research in the fields of management, finance and economics, our faculty translates global knowledge into local context. Research-informed teaching also serves society by producing future professionals who are flexible and open to new ideas. For this purpose, we strive to attract research driven faculty and create a culture where good research ideas are turned into great research outcomes. In the growth period, the focus of NUGSB will be on three main areas: Entrepreneurship and Emerging Markets.
Entrepreneurship remains a priority in most economies, and particularly so in the context of Kazakhstan as recognized in the 2050 Strategy document proclaimed by President Nazarbayev. Kazakhstan is in a process of transition from an economy dominated by public sector to one more driven by small and medium enterprises. There is widespread evidence that the growth engines of an economy are not large companies, but the many small entrepreneurs who launch their small and medium scale businesses. Entrepreneurship is a broad topic that includes many disciplines such as innovation, technology, strategy, marketing, venture financing, and economics, among others. Given this, we would like to set up a research program around the issues of entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan and bring the best practices from around the world.
The second topic that will be researched at NUGSB in the next few years is Emerging Markets. This is again a broad topic that covers a variety of issues such as how companies in emerging markets develop their own capabilities, expand abroad, and gain and sustain their long-term competitiveness. These are issues that also resonate with firms in Kazakhstan, and the broader economy as a whole. We are assembling a roster of faculty who are looking issues of Emerging Markets from different perspectives and disciplines, with the goal of understanding how best practices from other emerging markets can be applied to Kazakhstan.
The third area of research is the Financial Markets. Research and teaching in this area would cover key aspects of financial markets development, corporate finance and financial literacy. In this context, it is envisaged to establish a Financial Markets Center at GSB. Financial markets reform and development is also a key policy area of the government in Kazakhstan. The International Financial Center Astana was launched in 2018, and the new Financial Markets Center would be a natural complement and enabler for the Astana Financial Center. Within the Financial Markets Center, it is also planned to set up a Finance Lab that will contain a variety of data sources, finance tools, business news, market intelligence, investment products. The Finance Lab will be primarily an instructional and training facility for local students and professionals that want to further a career in finance.
NUGSB Business Digest
The Business Digest Series reports short pieces on research from GSB faculty, highlighting the key take-aways and policy implications, relevant for the wider business community and policy makers.
2021/1 Do prices rise faster than they fall? by Joep Konings and co-authors
2021/2 Building Character: The Formation of a Hybrid Organizational Identity in a Social Enterprise by Joep P. Cornelissen, Onajomo Akemu, Jeroen G. F. Jonkman and Mirjam D. Werner
2021/3 Opportunities for Cooperation in Removing Prohibitive Trade Barriers by David De Remer
2021/4 Does corporate social responsibility engender trust? Evidence from investor. Reactions to corporate disclosures by Atanu Rakshit, Doron Israeli and co-authors.
2021/5 How families help us thrive at work: Understanding the long reach of family support and family incivility on employee at work by Mayowa T. Babalola.
2021/6 Is there market support for corporate vaccination mandates? by Gabriele Lattanzio.
2022/7 The habit that creates a culture of distrust at work by Mayowa T. Babalola
2022/8 Opportunities and pitfalls in digital platforms' geographic expansion: Strategic implications for Kazakhstani platforms by Jiyang Dong
2022/9 Kazakhstan's growing entrepreneurial ecosystem at a glance by Leila Farraj, Aminanur Chaia, Shumaila Yousafazi
2022/10 Women Entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan and beyond Nazarbayev University Research Center of Entrepreneurship (NURCE) by Leila Farraj, Aminanur Chaia, Shumaila Yousafazi
2022/11 Technology Entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan: The Challenges of Adaptation and Re-start by Onajomo Akemu, Atanu Rakshit
2022/12 How women social entrepreneurs are innovating global impact by Leila Farraj, Aminanur Chaia, Shumaila Yousafazi
2022/13 Tourism sector in Kazakhstan: an overview Nazarbayev University Research Center of Entrepreneurship (NURCE) by Dana Sailaukhanova, Aigerim Yergabulova, Shumaila Yousafzai
2022/14 How community-based tourism can alleviate poverty? by Dana Sailaukhanova and Shumaila Yousafzai
NUGSB working papers
2021/01 The granular economy of Kazakhstan by Jozef Konings, Galiya Sagyndykova, Venkat Subramanian, Astrid Volckaert
2021/02 M&A and Cybersecurity Risk: Empirical Evidence by Gabriele Lattanzio, Jérôme P. Taillard
2022/03 Wage dispersion and firm performance: evidence from Kazakhstan by Dinara Alpysbayeva, Jozef Konings, Venkat Subramanian, Aigerim Yergabulova
2022/04 Mountains of Evidence: The Effects of Abnormal Air Pollution on Crime by Birzhan Batkeyev, David R. DeRemer
2022/05 How binding is supervisory guidance? Evidence from the European calendar provisioning by Franco Fiordelisi, Gabriele Lattanzio, Davide S. Mare
Research Areas
Entrepreneurship
Emerging markets
Financial markets
Research Seminars
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February 2, 2022, Karim Abadir, Imperial College London
Title: Vive la différence! Or how the diversity of firms predicts macroeconomic (and financial) trends and cycles
Area: Econometrics
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February 16, 2022, Moses Acquaah, UNC Greensboro
Title: Family Business Research in Africa
Area: Entrepreneurship
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February 23, 2022, Diane Pierret, U. of Luxembourg
Title: The Visible Hand when Revenues Stop: Evidence from Loan and Stock Markets during COVID-19
Area: Finance
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March 16, 2022, Mueid Al Raee, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht
Title: Diversification and Innovation Policy on Natural Resource Rich Countries
Area: Accounting
The seminar was canceled
March 30, 2022, Elia Ferracuti, Duke Fuqua
Title: Investment, Inflation, and the Role of Internal Information Systems as a Transmission Channel
Area: Innovation Policy
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April 6, 2022, Marat Salikhov, New Economic School / Moscow SKOLKOVO
Title: Forecasting Demand Distributions for New Products: Combining Subjective Rankings with Sales Data
Area: Operations Management
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April 13, 2022, Leonid Pugachev, Rochester Institute of Technology
Title: Banking on Culture: How customer culture affects U.S. bank performance
Area: Finance
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April 20, 2022, Arevik Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Leibniz U. Hannover
Title: Use and Abuse of Antidumping by Global Cartels
Area: Economics
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April 27, 2022, Jesus M. Salas, Lehigh U.
Title: Replacing Independent Directors
Area: Finance
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May 4, 2022, George Chondrakis, ESADE Business School
Title: Does more variable compensation prompt more business prospecting by general counsel?
Area: Strategy
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May 5, 2022, Mariya Teteryatnikova, Higher School of Economics
Title: On Perfect Pairwise Stable Networks
Area: Economics
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TIME: 5 pm - 6 pm
September 1, 2021, Riccardo Valboni, Utrecht University
Title: Responsible Blockholders, CEOs, and Tax-Motivated International Relocations of Corporate Headquarters: A Social Identity Perspective
Area: Strategy
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September 8, 2021, Bukky Akinsanmi, U. Texas,-Austin, McCombs School of Business
Title: Perceptions of Knowledge Transferability and Entrepreneurial Entry: The Role of Firm-Initiated Turnover
Area: Strategy
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September 15, 2021, Aziz Alimov, IESEG School of Management
Title: Expected Stock Returns and Corporate Acquisitions
Area: Finance
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September 22, 2021, Udari Ekanayake, Monash Business School
Title: Are We All in This Together? CEO Narcissism and Voluntary Paycuts
Area: Strategic Leadership
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Special Time: 12:30 - 13:30
September 29, 2021,Onajomo Akemu, NUGSB
Title: What Do We Do When They Shed Tears?
Area: Organizational Theory
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October 6, 2021, Jerome Taillard, Babson College
Title: The Day that WTI Died: Asset Prices and Firm Production Decisions
Area: Finance
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Special Time: 7 pm - 8 pm
October 7, 2021, Onajomo Akemu, NUGSB
Title: What Do We Do When They Shed Tears?
Area: Organizational Theory
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October 19, 2021, Bill Megginson, Oklahoma University
Title: Selling Indulgences: The Political Economy of Tariff Exemption Grants
Area: Finance
Special Time: 8am-9am local time (UTC+6)
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October 20, 2021, Andrew N. K. Chen, Kansas U. School of Business
Title: Preventing Organizational Knowledge Leakage: The Influence of Knowledge Seekers’ Awareness, Motivation, and Capability.
Area: Operations Managament
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October 27, 2021, Nathan Betancourt, University of Amsterdam
Title: What causes a star to shine? Evidence from the Manhattan Project
Area: Organizational Theory
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November 3, 2021, Sudeep Ghosh, Hong Kong Polytechnic U.
Title: Does Regulation Hinder Reputation Building? An Investigation of the Impact of Governance on Signaling by Managers
Area: Economics / Finance
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November 10, 2021, Franco Fiordelisi, Essex Business School
Title: Pandemic Lending: The Unintended Effects of Model-based Regulation
Area: Finance
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November 17, 2021, Márta Bisztray, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Title: Automated Information Sharing and Supplying Multinationals: Evidence from Firm‐To‐Firm Data
Area: Economics
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November 24, 2021, Aris Stouraitis, Hong Kong Baptist U. School of Business
Title: Anticipating Acquirers
Area: Finance
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February 3, 2021, Birzhan Batkeyev, ISE KBTU
Title: Student Debt and Stock Market Participation
Area: Economics / Finance
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February 10, 2021, Mustafa Karatas, NUGSB
Title: "Experiential (versus Material) Products Promote More Sustainable Consumer Behavior"
Area: Marketing
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February 17, 2021, Balázs Muraközy, U. of Liverpool Management School
Title: "The nature of buyer-supplier relationships: Lessons from the Central European Supplier Survey"
Area: Economics
February 24, 2021, Valentina Fani, Université de Lausanne
Title: "Do remedies hurt the performance of M&As? Evidence from M&As scrutinized by the EU competition authority."
Area: Strategy
March 3, 2021, Thierry Post, NUGSB
Title: "Risk Arbitrage Opportunities for Stock Index Options"
Area: Finance
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March 17, 2021, Jeroen Van den bosch, IMEC / University of Leuven
Title: "The Impact of Innovation on Productivity: Profitability and Technical Efficiency"
Area: Economics / Strategy
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March 31, 2021, Michal Czerwonko, NUGSB
Title: "Tail Risk, Almost Stochastic Dominance and Index Option Anomalies"
Area: Finance
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April 7, 2021, Samer Abdelnour, U. of Edinburgh Business School
Title: "Researching violent contexts: a call for political reflexivity"
Area: Organization Theory
Time: 5 pm
April 14, 2021, Mayowa Babalola, NUGSB
Area: Human Resources Management
April 21, 2021, Jose Faias, Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics
Area: Finance
April 28, 2021, Thomas Conlon, University College Dublin
Area: Finance
May 5, 2021, Stylianos Perrakis, Concordia U., Molson School of Business
Title: Stochastic Dominance in the Frictionless World: A Research Agenda
Area: Finance
May 12, 2021, Valerio Poti, University College Dublin
Title: The Greenspan Put
Area: Finance
May 19, 2021, Aziz Alimov, IESEG School of Management
Area: Finance
May 26, 2021, Stelios Arvanitis, Athens University of Econ and Business
Title: Ordering Arbitrage Portfolios and Finding Arbitrage Opportunities
Area: Finance
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