Table of contents
1 Preface 5
2 History of the company 6
3 Aspects of the growth 8
3.1 Hiring personnel 8
3.2 Reputation of the company 8
3.3 Founder’s managerial skills 8
3.4 External factors of the growth 9
4 factors of the growth 10
5 conclusion 12
References 13

Preface
In this work I am going to conduct a research about the biggest Russian IT-company – Yandex. I have chosen this company because it demonstrated the brightest example of continuous and sustainable growth. From the small office in the basement to the biggest international IT-company. Yandex is still growing (and very fast) nowadays increasing its presence in different countries and strengthen its position in Russia and neighbor countries such as Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Turkey. During this research I am going to find out the factors contributed to the growth, reasons of the success and the role of the founders of the company.
In this research I am going to use knowledge obtained during the course “Managing a growing business”: articles, case works, interview with the companies’ founders, lessons.

History of the company
Yandex (Russian: Яндекс) is a Russian Internet company which operates the largest search engine in Russia with about 60% market share in that country. It also develops a number of Internet-based services and products. Yandex ranked as the 4th largest search engine worldwide, based on information from Comscore.com, with more than 150 million searches per day as of April 2012, and more than 50.5 million visitors (all company's services) daily as of February 2013. The company's mission is to provide answers to any questions users have or think about (explicit or implicit). Yandex also has a very large presence in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, providing nearly a third of all search results in those markets and 43% of all search results in Belarus.
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