Introducing the FUS Faculty: Tatiana Balushkina

Assistant Professor, International Management

Ph.D. in Business Administration and Management, Bocconi University, Italy

Office: Kaletsch Campus, Office 5
Phone: +41 91 986 53 42
Email: tbalushkina@fus.edu

Tatiana Balushkina is Assistant Professor of International Management. She obtained her Ph. D. degree in Business Administration and Management from Bocconi University in 2021, with her dissertation on the individual-level workplace outcomes of narcissism. Prior to joining Franklin University Switzerland, Dr. Balushkina was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Milan-Bicocca.

Her current research explores the effect of personality traits, gender stereotypes, and team diversity on employees’ behavior, performance, and decision-making. Her work has been published in the “Journal of Vocational Behavior.”

Before joining academia, Dr. Balushkina had been working as financial reporting accountant and business planning analyst.

2024-2025 Courses

BUS 115	Financial Accounting	FALL 2024
This course is designed to provide students with a basic knowledge of financial accounting concepts, procedures, analysis, and internal reports as an essential part of the decision-making process. The focus is on the three basic steps of the accounting process: recording, classifying, and summarizing financial transactions. Emphasis is placed on the general accounting activities leading up to the preparation of financial statements.
BUS 237T	Operations and Supply Chain Management (Italy)	FALL 2024
This course introduces students to the field of operations and supply chain management. It aims to explain how to effectively organize the process of creating goods and services and introduce students to the major concepts, models, and methods in the field. The course explains how to apply quantitative and qualitative methods to solve a wide range of problems in managing operations, such as forecasting, sales planning, or outsourcing. The travel component of this course will include visits to Bologna and Umbria region in Italy. A specific focus will be given to understanding manufacturing companies in the automotive and food industries.
BUS 410W	Organizational Behavior and Leadership	FALL 2024
This course studies the internal environment of firms and organizations, namely how to organize and manage people in order to implement strategic plans effectively. Topics include: organizational structures and change, human resources, leadership, group dynamics and teamwork, motivation, and multicultural management. Special attention will be given to the study of leadership, which plays a critical role in increasingly complex and multicultural organizations. The readings and class discussions include both theoretical concepts, case studies and practical exercises.(This writing-intensive course counts towards the Academic Writing requirement.) (Junior status recommended)
BUS 115	Financial Accounting	SPRING 2025
This course is designed to provide students with a basic knowledge of financial accounting concepts, procedures, analysis, and internal reports as an essential part of the decision-making process. The focus is on the three basic steps of the accounting process: recording, classifying, and summarizing financial transactions. Emphasis is placed on the general accounting activities leading up to the preparation of financial statements.
BUS 135	Introduction to Business Systems	SPRING 2025
The course introduces the global business system in the context of the economic, political, social and technological environments, relating business to society as a whole. Topics covered include the international scope, function, and organization of firms, and other fundamental concepts of multinational business. The course also addresses functional areas such as the value chain, production, marketing, human resources, and accounting.
BUS 455W	Global Strategic Management	SPRING 2025
This course is intended as a capstone for the International Management, International Marketing Management and Finance majors and should come after students have studied all basic aspects of management. Students will be challenged to think critically, strategically, creatively, collaboratively, and compassionately with the goal of working on a field project together with a company/institution. (This writing-intensive course counts towards the Academic Writing requirement).

Publications:

Netchaeva, E., Sheppard, L.D., & Balushkina, T. (2022). A meta-analytic review of the gender difference in leadership aspirations. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 137, Article 103744, 10.1016/j.jvb.2022.103744.

Scholarships & grants:

Research grant, Invernizzi Foundation, Bocconi University, September 2019 – August 2020

Ph.D. Fellowship, Bocconi University, September 2015 – August 2019

Scholarship, Oxford Russia Fund, September 2014 – July 2015 and September 2010 – July 2013

Grant for Studies abroad, Eranet Mundus Project, September 2013 – June 2014