Laps
“The best way to predict a future is to invent it,” said Alan Kay. This idea was the driving force behind kmbs' successful history.
Implementing the dream [May 1999]
The School is essentially built from scratch: a chair borrowed from a nearby classroom, a home PC brought to the office, and a BIG dream – to create Ukraine's best business school.
Total M@rketing starts it all… [June 2000]
The first open-enrollment seminar on Total M@rketing opens up a series of short-term Executive Development programs. It two years there will be more than 100 open enrollment programs.
The most innovative B-school in Ukraine [September 2001]
At the opening ceremony of the first international Executive MBA program, program participants conduct a real symphony orchestra performing Mozart's Symphony #40. A leader of a team of professionals needs to inspire, not just supervise.
First corporate chair in Ukraine [April 2002]
UMC establishes its Marketing Chair at kmbs to support advanced teaching and research in marketing.
First B-school in Ukraine to publish a managerial journal
[May 2002]
kmbs team begins to publish Kyiv Mohyla Business Studio, a quarterly analytical journal on management.
First in Ukraine to change traditional MBA philosophy
[September 2002]
The new 5-block MBA program focuses on leadership skills development in addition to providing conventional organization-focused knowledge.
First Executive MBA graduation ceremony [December 2002]
First Executive MBA group, first graduation, first pride of having coped with such a difficult but pleasant task as carrying out an Executive MBA program @ kmbs.
Partnering with the world's best [December 2002]
Kyiv Mohyla Academy and kmbs officially announce their partnership with the Center for Technology & Innovation Management (CTIM) at Northwestern University, home to the Kellogg School of Management. Kellogg was named the world's best business school by The Economist in 2002 and 2003. We launch “Stimulating and managing innovations” joint senior executive development program.
Going global [May 2003]
Kmbs runs a special study tour for Emory University Goizueta Business School Executive MBA program. Emory's program is ranked #10 globally by the Financial Times and #8 globally by Business Week.
PrivateUniversity: Ukraine's First Corporate University [Feb 2004]
The leadership of PrivatBank and kmbs commemorated the foundation of Ukraine's first corporate university – PrivatUniversity.
kmbs brings Jack Trout to Ukraine [May 2004]
Jack Trout conducts an open master-class ‘Trout on STRATEGIES' and exclusive master-class for kmbs MBAs. More than 350 executives learn Trout's view on perception, positioning, differentiation from the mover of these ideas himself.
First International Study Tour: Philipp Kotler holds lecture for kmbs MBAs [July 2004]
42 kmbs MBAs go for International Study Tour to CTIM at Northwestern University.The study tour features Prof. Phillip Kotler and other Kellogg faculty classes, company visits to Motorola, Harley Davidson, Miller Brewing etc.
First Ukrainian Study tour for kmbs Executive MBA participants [September 2004]
Launch of Executive MBA-7 group was carried out as a visit to 3 successful companies of Kherson region: agroindustrial company “Tavria”, “Kakhovka Factory of Electric Welding Equipment” [KZEZU] and “Chumak”. It was the first departure MBA launch event in Ukraine.
kmbs – the best business school in Ukraine [July 2005]
kmbs became business school #1, winning first places in 4 out of 6 categories: business school evaluation by students, brand awareness, brand loyalty, and participants' average profit growth dynamics. Rating was created by “Delovoy zhurnal” questioning alumni and program participants, recruiting agencies, HR-managers and top-managers. Project auditor – PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
First International Study Course “Managing Innovations” [July - August 2005]
First International Study Course “Managing Innovations was developed specially for kmbs Executive MBA participants and covered 3 world innovations centers – Munich, Chicago, and silicon Valley, 2 continents – USA and Europe, 14 most innovative world companies, among which: Siemens, BMW, Motorola, Kraft, Ford, Winzeler Gear, Eli's Cheesecake, IBM, Intel, Xerox, Google.
Launch of First kmbs Presidents' MBA group [January 2006]
The program is first of a kind in Ukraine and is designed to fulfill needs of companies' owners and CEOs. 12 business owners started their studying with real orchestra conducting, visiting agroindustrial company “Rise” and specially designed courses.
kmbs brings Chan Kim to Ukraine [March 2006]
Chan Kim, author of bestseller "Blue Ocean Strategy” and professor on strategy at INSEAD [France], conducted an inspiring 3-hour strategic session called "Blue Ocean Strategy" for nearly 300 managers from leading Ukrainian companies, and carried out an exclusive 2,5-hour master-class for kmbs MBA participants.
kmbs have received CEEMAN accreditation [May 2006]
Kyiv-Mohyla Business School have received the Unconditional Accreditation for 5 years according to CEEMAN Accreditation Board decision!
kmbs brings Philip Kotler to Ukraine [May 2006]
Philip Kotler conducted two separate master-classes on “Marketing in New Economy”. Visit of godfather and “synonym” [by Al Rise] of marketing was a really exiting event for all who was raised as a professional on books of Philip Kotler.
kmbs is first in Ukraine to make international study tour for the MBA programs participants to the China and Singapore [July-August 2006]
Top-managers from 50 Ukrainian companies participated in the international study tour to China and Singapore, organized by Kyiv Mohyla Business School [kmbs]. The objective of the tour was a to show active development of Asian companies to the owners and managers of Ukrainian companies. The tour went through cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore; altogether participants visited 2 companies in China, 5 companies and a state organisation in Singapore as well as attended a course on the peculiarities of leading a business on Asian markets at China Europe International Business School [CEIBS] and Singapore National Technical University.
kmbs confirms its leading position in Ukrainian market [August 2006]
Kyiv Mohyla Business School was nominated as number one business-school in Ukraine according to the rating of journal “Delovoy”. The final rating of business-schools, where kmbs takes the first place, is a combination of different factors: level of faculty, theoretical and practical value of knowledge, innovative and up-to-date knowledge, study schedules, price and quality relation, technical and material support. The high indexes of all the listed criteria prove that kmbs is a top business-school on Ukrainian business-education market. The audition of the project was performed by PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
Managerial practicum with Ichak Adizes [October 2006]
Two-days long managerial practicum “Effective transformation of business: from entrepreneurship to systematic management” was really unique combination of the experience of Kyiv Mohyla Business School's best experts and the approaches to the structure of business of the world management guru Ichak Adizes [the author of the “Ideal Executive” and “Corporate lifecycles”].
President's MBA international study tour to the Silicone valley, California, the centre of the venture capitalism [November 2006]
The International study tour was devoted to visiting the most innovative and successful companies [such as Intel, IBM, Yahoo, Labcyte, Columbia Metal Spining òà Winzeler Gear], meeting the top-management and venture capitalists; and studying at one of the best business-schools in the world – Kellogg School of Management of the Northwestern University.
To be continued
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