Kvint established himself as the chief economist and vice chairman of a major Russian high-tech company, successfully earned his Ph.D. in economics, and was educated in the fields of mining-electrical engineering and law by the age of 27.
He founded and was Chief of the Department of Organization Management at the Norilsk Mining – Metallurgical Concern, later renamed MMC Norilsk Nickel, which was the largest Russian enterprise (150,000 employees) and still the largest producer worldwide of nickel, cobalt, platinum, palladium and osmium.
Under his leadership, the company's first general organizational structure, focusing on the strategic improvement of final products was developed.
He was responsible for economic policy, business planning, the organization of compensation systems, and accounting departments in this company of 5,000 employees.
Under Kvint's economic strategy, this company became one of the first self-sufficient firms in the USSR, despite the Soviet command planning system.
Another economic expedition traveled through three seas along the entire Pacific Coast of Russia to evaluate the area's natural resources and productive forces.
[3] In 1982, Kvint was elected as a senior researcher and then as the Head of Department and later a leading scholar at the Institute of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Between 2005-2016 Vladimir Kvint has been an adjunct professor of international business strategy at La Salle University in Pennsylvania.
From 2012 - 2015, he was a member of the board of directors of the fishing company NBAM, and since 2015, he has been Chairman of the Pacific Investment Group Expert Council.
In 1997, the New England Center for International and Regional Studies awarded Kvint the title of Honorary Fellow.
On May 25, 2006 Vladimir Kvint was elected as a Foreign Member (Life time) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
This election acknowledged Vladimir Kvint`s impact on the development of world economic science as well as his fundamental works in the global emerging market and strategic research.
In 2022 Dr. Kvint became a Laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the Field of Science and Technology for the Research Monograph “The Strategic Leadership of Amir Timur: Comments on the Code”.