Meeting kmbs

On July 2, a presentation of kmbs was held in the format of master classes given by the kmbs faculty on the subject ‘Intellectual and spiritual extension for business leaders’. At the event managers of leading Ukrainian companies found out about the business school’s rich experience and felt the inspiring atmosphere of kmbs.

During the presentational meeting, a team of most innovative lecturers in Ukraine–kmbs professors–spoke: Anna Vlasova [Director of the HRM School at kmbs], Serhiy Gvozdiov [kmbs professor of operations management and implementation of TOC], Mykhajlo Kolisnyk [Head of the kmbs School of Finance], Yevhen Pentsak [kmbs professor of finance], Pavlo Sheremeta [Dean of kmbs].

The presentation was opened by Pavlo Sheremeta who set for the participants the direction and rhythm of getting acquainted with kmbs. His was the first presentation of the topic ‘Efficient Strategy: Today’s Views’ that he based on ideas of Henry Mintzberg, a guru of management. Pavlo Sheremeta told about the problems of standard approach to a strategy as a detailed plan of achieving an end or a competitive advantage.

Serhiy Gvozdiov focused his presentation on a process of decision making using the theory of constraints [TOC] method as well as on new philosophy of project management that makes a business growing due to changes in the processes of company management.

During presentation, Anna Vlasova told about a new metaphor of a business school, yoga,–and highlighted a special role of balance in management. Parallels between yoga and financial management were also drawn by kmbs professors of finance Yevhen Pentsak and Mykhajlo Kolisnyk.

A unique opportunity for the participants of the event became an off-schedule presentation delivered by Karl Zaininger [professor of Princeton University], a guest professor of a ‘Management of technological innovations’ discipline.

After the lectures, the participants proceeded to informational sessions, where they broke into three groups to meet different kmbs programs: МВА, Master in Banking and Finance, and the programs of managerial growth. It was a series of Q&A, where the participants could with their own eyes find out about the coordinators and professors about the details of the programs, their uniqueness and the rules of entering.

In the course of the meeting Kyiv Mohyla Business School participants of the presentation [more than 105 managers] got acquainted with the team and faculty of kmbs, had an opportunity to feel innovation approaches from the kmbs faculty, to find out about a totally new metaphor of the school and to dip for 2 hours into an inspiring atmosphere of the School.