Mandatory courses

Leading Self

It all starts with your personality. A Leader cannot work well with organizational strategy and corporate finance if he/she doesn't know which direction to take personally and how to manage personal finance. kmbs places its learning emphasis on the Leader and starts its MBA program with unique courses on Personal Strategy and Personal Finance. Both courses demand a lot of personal reflection, future scenario planning and goal setting. We would like you as future kmbs graduates to be leaders who follow your passion and deeply held values.

Personal Strategy Development
Emotional Intelligence and Motivation
Acting Teqniques
Personal Branding
Personal Finance and Investments
Leadership and Behavior Styles

Leading in Context

kmbs provides a stimulating and creative environment for learning. Kyiv Mohyla Philosophy of Business is unique course that combines the best academic traditions of the Academy, that we are being proud to be the part of, with innovative approach of kmbs. We foresee MBA participants playing an active role in Ukraine's sustainable and social environment in the future. And to do so they must be grounded in the traditions of the past. Our collective aim is to develop a Ukrainian managerial style with a human face. You will be challenged to think and reflect on meetings with prominent philosophers, sociologists, historians, political scientist.

Kyiv-Mohyla Philosophy of Business
The Business Environment in Ukraine and the World
Managerial Economics
International Business
Statistics & Modeling for Managers

Leading Organizations

The fact that we operate in a global business environment has become a cliché. The continuing challenge is, what do you do about it? The kmbs MBA Program includes a required course Managing Innovations - a course which marks the culmination of participants' learning experience into how companies develop and implement innovations in a competitive global context. The Course is developed in partnership with Center for Innovations and Technology Innovations at Northwestern University [home of the Kellogg School of Management] and features prominent Kellogg faculty, as well as company visits to the most innovative companies [e.g. BMW, Siemens, Google, IBM, Intel]. It offers you an inside view not only of individual companies and industries, but of the broader economic, political, social, and cultural factors that influence business opportunities and practice globally.

Business Strategy
Strategic Marketing
Human Resource Management
Production and Service Operations Management
Financial Accounting
Managerial Accounting
Financial Management
International Corporate Finance
Global Innovation & Technology Management
Managing Innovations [International Study Course]

Leading Relationships

In June adventurous MBAs and graduates put their degrees to the test by replacing their laptops and Palm Pilots for backpacks and parkas. Their destination is Hoverla , Ukraine's highest mountain. The trek is a part of the kmbs Executive MBA program, designed to explore how mountain metaphors can be used to build both personal and team leadership. The parallels between climbing a mountain — striving for something that may seem impossible — and the struggle to achieve one's personal and professional goals are hard to miss. Sleeping in tents and kolybas, cooking on fire and gas-stove burners, drinking from springs and walking with 20-30 kg backpacks becomes for some eye-opening, for others challenging and for all – INSPIRING!

Leadership Skills Development [including hiking trip to the highest mountain of Ukraine – Hoverla]
Business Communications [including Presentation Skills, Mass-Media
Relations, Negotiation Skills, Conflict Resolution]
Sales Management

Leading Change

kmbs – world-renowned for combining innovations with practice within a business school environment, employs a wide variety of teaching methods. Field studies provide you with an opportunity to diagnose situations in various companies: assess the work of functional departments, witness entrepreneurial corporate culture as well as debate with top-management of companies. During Field Studies you become ‘an insightful observer', and this helps you to analyze your own managerial experience in comparison to that of other top-managers. Teaching in ‘field conditions' suggests a transition to a higher level of business education in Ukraine. Earlier, business schools invited guest speakers to the lecture room, now you are taken out of the lecture room to plunge into companies. All kmbs host companies differ in corporate culture, structure and goals. Their common thread is that their employees live through their companies and through this live out their own personal missions.

Organizational Development
Business Processes and Change Management
Strategy and Leadership