Faculty and Research

CEU Business School’s faculty is nearly as diverse as its student body. Currently, we host lecturers from 11 countries on 3 continents. Reflecting CEU Business School’s dual commitment to both excellent academic research and practically relevant management education, our faculty consists of both academicians involved in leading-edge research and practitioners with many years of in-depth industry experience, most of whom are adjunct lecturers who are out in the field every day and are thus able to bring the latest developments in business into the classroom.

Learn more about some of our core program professors here.

Yusaf Akbar teaches courses on transnational strategy development and international business. He received his DPhil from the University of Sussex. Yusaf’s main research interests are international trade and investment, management development in Central and East Europe, and non-market strategies of emerging-market multinationals. He has taught at universities and business schools all over the world, including University of Michigan, Stockholm School of Economics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Queen’s University, Canada, European Business School, London, ISM Paris, University of Warsaw and University of Montenegro.

Maciej Kisilowski’s flagship course “Legal, Political, and Policy Environment of the Market” (LPPE) integrates knowledge of multiple disciplines to equip Managers with the tools to strategically manage their interactions with governments. Maciej holds two doctorates in law - from Yale Law School and from Warsaw University - in addition to an MPA in Economics and Public Policy from Princeton, an MBA with distinction from INSEAD, and an LL.M from Yale. Maciej consulted numerous European institutions, national governments, and companies. He currently brings together reform-minded politicians and business leaders in the Business School’s “Initiative for Regulatory Innovation” (IRI).

Paul Marer has been a professor of international business for more than 30 years and joined CEU Business School in 2000. He holds a PhD in International Economics from Wharton and wrote or edited 20 books and 150 articles and chapters, mainly on the changing political, economic and business situation in Hungary, the other transitioning countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and China. Paul was appointed by three consecutive US presidents—George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton and George Bush Jr.—to serve on the board of trustees for the Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund, a $78 million fund from the US government to promote private enterprise in Hungary.

Maria Findrik is CEU Business Schools’s Director for Executive Education programs. She teaches various courses on business economics and competitiveness, and is also a visiting Professor to the IMM multi-campus global Executive MBA offered by jointly together by CEU and three other leading universities in Europe, America, and Asia. Maria has taught at leading institutions including the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western (Cleveland) and Columbia University (New York). Her research interest includes macro and micro analysis of the business environment, international competitive analysis, the transition process from emerging economies to established market economies and its social impact, and the regulation of natural monopolies. She holds a PhD from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Anna Turner is the Coordinator for Accounting, Finance, and Economics area of our programs and teaches a variety of courses including financial accounting, cost accounting, business economics, and financial management. Anna’s PhD dissertation focused on Maximizing Shareholder Value in Eastern Europe and was awarded a “summa cum laude” by the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration (BUESPA). She has been teaching for 12 years at various institutions, including Corvinus University (Budapest), Wirschaftuniversitaet Wien (Vienna, Austria), Számalk (Budapest), Middlesex University (London, UK) and also delivered numerous corporate courses.

Tibor Voros teaches courses on Business Simulations, Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, and Strategy Development in both academic and corporate environments. He holds an MSc in Maths, Physics and Information Technology and is a consulting practitioner and academic researcher alike with more than 15 years experience in both fields. More recently, Tibor spent considerable time on various business simulations and created unique storyboards to help students experience real life problems in classroom situations. Current research work concentrates on the relationship of culture and technology. CEEMAN has selected him as the winner of the Innovation in Course Design category for the CEEMAN Champions’ Award 2010.

Bala Mulloth is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management. He is also the Faculty Director of CEU InnovationsLab, an incubator focused on providing learning opportunities for students, such as testing ideas for new ventures, research opportunities for faculty, and curriculum development. His main research focus is in entrepreneurship and innovation, particularly in the areas of clean technology innovation. He teaches courses on new venture development, social entrepreneurship, sustainability in business, India and south Asia, and business in a global city: New York City. He holds a PhD in Technology Management from Polytechnic Institute of New York University.

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Research

The School’s research is devoted to topics on emerging markets with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe in a global context. Current research covers a wide range of theoretical, empirical and policy-related issues.

At the moment, three distinguished research centers exist at CEU Business School:

The Center for Business and Society explores the societal circumstances of business, fosters research in sustainability, and is committed to promote Corporate Social Responsibility in the region and in emerging markets worldwide.

The Initiative for Regulatory Innovation (IRI) aims to assess the state of economic regulation in the region and contributes to its continuous improvement. It brings together public and business leaders from Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

The Center for Integrity in Business and Government serves as a regional center of excellence in integrity education, and brings new visibility and credibility to the field.