Kandinskaia, Olga (rp00004)
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Kandinskaia, Olga
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Olga Kandinskaia is Associate Professor of Finance and MSc Business Management Director at CIIM – Cyprus International Institute of Management. She has PhD in Economics (1995) from the MGIMO-University in Moscow, Russia.
Originally from Moscow, Russia, Dr Kandinskaia moved to Cyprus in 2001, and she joined CIIM first on a part-time basis in 2002, and then on a full-time basis in 2011. She has 25+ years of experience in teaching undergraduate, postgraduate and executive courses at different universities and colleges in Cyprus, UK, Portugal, and Russia. Olga’s PhD research was in financial derivatives as risk management tools. At that time, she also had practical experience of working as a futures broker. Her current expertise is in the areas of Financial Management, Business Planning, Strategic Investment Decisions, Corporate Finance, and Business Valuation.
Olga is a passionate advocate of innovative teaching methods in business education, such as experiential learning, case method, and blended learning. Her teaching style is highly interactive, she emphasizes customized and practically relevant learning where theory is applied to real-life cases. Her finance classes include extensive Excel-based workshops designed to help students develop solid financial modeling skills. Olga’s teaching skills have earned high scores in student evaluations.
Olga is a pioneer at her business school and overall in Cyprus for writing teaching cases about innovative business projects. Olga has received three prestigious international awards in case writing (all three are the first time wins for CIIM Business School and for Cyprus):
‘Outstanding New Case Writer’ (2017) for the case about Engino, innovative Cypriot SME – annual international competition by The Case Centre, the top global distributor of cases to universities and business schools;
‘Jonathan Welch Award for Best Case in Accounting, Finance and Economics’ (2018) for the case about the innovative project in New York by Zorbas Bakeries – annual international conference of NACRA (North American Case Research Association), the top global academic case research association; in 2019 this case was published in the top global case journal Case Research Journal and became the first case in Harvard Business Review Store about a Cypriot company;
‘Best Case Gold Award’ (2019) for the case on a crowdfunding campaign led by a female CEO in Belgium (written together with Belgian colleague Dr Huyghebaert) – annual international conference of NACRA (the top award for the best case out of 72 presented at the conference).
In total, Olga has published 12 papers in international peer-reviewed scientific journals. She has presented cases and papers at 18 international peer-reviewed conferences. She is a member of several international academic case research associations and is on several editorial boards as reviewer. Olga is a Board Member (VP Programs-elect 2021-22) and the Chair of the Accounting, Finance and Economics Track of NACRA, the top global case research academic association.
As Director of the MSc in Business Management at CIIM, Olga has created a unique postgraduate programme in Cyprus which has fully embraced a wide variety of experiential learning activities. Olga’s “Learning by Doing” innovative teaching method in business management received Silver and Bronze Awards by Cyprus Education Leaders Awards 2020.
Olga has substantial experience in distance learning education – having developed several online modules for UK-based programmes. At CIIM Olga has supervised the introduction of blended learning via Moodle.
Originally from Moscow, Russia, Dr Kandinskaia moved to Cyprus in 2001, and she joined CIIM first on a part-time basis in 2002, and then on a full-time basis in 2011. She has 25+ years of experience in teaching undergraduate, postgraduate and executive courses at different universities and colleges in Cyprus, UK, Portugal, and Russia. Olga’s PhD research was in financial derivatives as risk management tools. At that time, she also had practical experience of working as a futures broker. Her current expertise is in the areas of Financial Management, Business Planning, Strategic Investment Decisions, Corporate Finance, and Business Valuation.
Olga is a passionate advocate of innovative teaching methods in business education, such as experiential learning, case method, and blended learning. Her teaching style is highly interactive, she emphasizes customized and practically relevant learning where theory is applied to real-life cases. Her finance classes include extensive Excel-based workshops designed to help students develop solid financial modeling skills. Olga’s teaching skills have earned high scores in student evaluations.
Olga is a pioneer at her business school and overall in Cyprus for writing teaching cases about innovative business projects. Olga has received three prestigious international awards in case writing (all three are the first time wins for CIIM Business School and for Cyprus):
‘Outstanding New Case Writer’ (2017) for the case about Engino, innovative Cypriot SME – annual international competition by The Case Centre, the top global distributor of cases to universities and business schools;
‘Jonathan Welch Award for Best Case in Accounting, Finance and Economics’ (2018) for the case about the innovative project in New York by Zorbas Bakeries – annual international conference of NACRA (North American Case Research Association), the top global academic case research association; in 2019 this case was published in the top global case journal Case Research Journal and became the first case in Harvard Business Review Store about a Cypriot company;
‘Best Case Gold Award’ (2019) for the case on a crowdfunding campaign led by a female CEO in Belgium (written together with Belgian colleague Dr Huyghebaert) – annual international conference of NACRA (the top award for the best case out of 72 presented at the conference).
In total, Olga has published 12 papers in international peer-reviewed scientific journals. She has presented cases and papers at 18 international peer-reviewed conferences. She is a member of several international academic case research associations and is on several editorial boards as reviewer. Olga is a Board Member (VP Programs-elect 2021-22) and the Chair of the Accounting, Finance and Economics Track of NACRA, the top global case research academic association.
As Director of the MSc in Business Management at CIIM, Olga has created a unique postgraduate programme in Cyprus which has fully embraced a wide variety of experiential learning activities. Olga’s “Learning by Doing” innovative teaching method in business management received Silver and Bronze Awards by Cyprus Education Leaders Awards 2020.
Olga has substantial experience in distance learning education – having developed several online modules for UK-based programmes. At CIIM Olga has supervised the introduction of blended learning via Moodle.
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