Planning, preparation, defending doctorate thesis, not accidentally for the majority of onlookers seems to be an extremely complex, time-consuming, lengthy task, the formulation and the solution of which is not available for every researcher, the more serious the busy practice manager. The media, including foreign ones, traditionally prevailing public opinion steadily form an idea of what scientific degree of heads of large state or business organizations do not always result from the activities of their authors. A specific story about how, in the framework of the scientific school of management theory at the department of theory of organization and management of the State University of Management was prepared and defended the dissertation of doctor of economic sciences, acting prefect of the southeastern administrative district of Moscow, Zotov Vladimir Borisovich gives an exhaustive answer to this question.