joomla шаблоны

On the 15th October lessons commenced for the eighth generation of the International Institute of Business Executive MBAs. This year 32 people, amongst them owners of businesses (45%) and top-level managers (55%) of Ukrainian companies, embarked on the Executive MBA course.

Profile of the group:

• Average age – 37.

• Men – 75%, women – 25%

• Work experience before the beginning of the program (as an average) – 15 years

• Experience of work in managerial positions (as an average) – 8 years

Companies represented by participants of the program: Kyivstar GSM, PUMB, Deltabank, CC "VESKO", BIS Holding, MTI, TPK OMEGA Avtostavka, Valmi Automotive, Yug-Kontrakt, GK Molis, Dneproenergo, CRH-Ukraine, EBEWE Pharma, Ukrrostrans LLS, GK Fokstrot and others.

The International Institute of Business is running the program "Improving the effectiveness of managing the branch network of a bank" for managers and deputy-managers of the branches of PC "Ukreximbank".

The fundamental aims of the program are to provide management with a holistic understanding of the branch network and the tasks and strategic direction of developing a sales system.

Natalya Pisarenko, director of the IIB Centre for Marketing Innovation and Irina Ulyanova, IIB visiting professor, familiarized students with the instruments and technologies in the sphere of strategic and operational management in the process of executing the professional functions of management of the corporate and retail sectors of a company at different levels of management.

On the 4th of October the graduation ceremony of the International Institute of Business International MBA program was held. This year 30 students were awarded diplomas from the IIB and the University of New Brunswick, having been acquainted with the cohort of manager-professionals.

Distinguished guests Peter Bates, political advisor to the Canadian Embassy, Dan Colman, Dean of the Faculty of Business at the University of New Brunswick (Canada) – the IIB’s partner in implementation the MBA program, Andrew Gaudes, Director of the MBA program at the University of New Brunswick and IIB faculty members attended the ceremony.

New academic year for the 2nd-course International MBA students’ begun with "International Business Environment" course. This course was held by Paul Marer, Ph.D. at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania, visiting professor at the International Institute of Business.

The course discusses globalization, its drivers and impacts, the types of opportunities and challenges globalization is creating for businesses, who gains and loses during the process. Participants have explored how political, legal and economic systems and business cultures differ and their implications for cross-border business, especially foreign investment.

On September 12th, 2008 Kateryna Velychko, CIPR Programs manager at the International Institute of Business, took part in the roundtable discussion "Interactive resources of the high-quality administrative education", which was held in the frameworks of the 15th National Book exhibition fair "Publishers’ forum" in Lviv.

On the 19th of July the 6th graduation of the Executive MBA Program of International Institute of Business took its place. IIB’s President Alexander Mertens opened the ceremony with congratulation of graduates on successful defence of graduation projects and passing of important life period. Because MBA degree is not only an acquiring of new and systematization of existing knowledge, but in the first place it is a special mode of thought clearing the way to the professional self-development of a manager and contributing to a company’s expansion. Mr Mertens wished that every graduate would never stop at what has been accomplished and would seek conquering of new heights in business.

On June 26 – 27, the First management education forum, CEEMAN Executive Education Forum: Changing Competition in Executive Education took its place in Moscow; Central and Eastern Europe Management Development Association (CEEMAN) jointly with Russia Association Business Education (RABE) organized it.

More than 50 participants from 18 countries of the world took part in the forum. Alyona Antonenko, IIB Corporate Partnership Development Director and Alena Shevchuk, Head of IIB Marketing Department represented our business school at the forum.

The main trends in business education area were discussed at the forum and trends of MBA programs in particular, peculiarities of Eastern European countries market. Thus, Boris Scherbakov, Vice-President Oracle Corporation, Director General Oracle-CIS, Russia, noted that correlation of business schools in Russia and USA constitutes 1 to 10 and shows us market unsaturation and possibilities for players to take their perspective niche.

From June 6 to 28, the International Institute of Business conducts the corporative program for employees of the Innovative Marketing Ukraine Company on the subject of "Project management".

Ludmila Batenko, the director of the IIB Productivity Centre discloses main stages of project management, design works structure and project risks management methods in the network of the program.

The program participants examine various aspects of project documentation developing in practice, organizational frameworks arrangement, responsibility matrix, project communication plans and other urgent issues of project management.

From June 18 to 21 David McLeod, the Director International Education and Juriy Konkin, the Head of cooperation projects in Eastern Europe from Grant MacEwan College (Canada) arrived to the International Institute of Business for a working visit to discuss issues of further cooperation of two business schools.

On the 19 of June David McLeod met with students and graduates under IIB Canadian Degree Management Program that had been arranged jointly with Grant MacEwan College. Mister McLeod spoke about opportunities occurring for the program graduates.

On June 19 the Chief Executive Officer of the Astelit Ltd telecommunication company (the life:) trademark) Tansu Yegen had visited the International Institute of Business and shared his secrets of success achievement with first year students of the International MBA.

Mister Yegen have managed to raise life:) in one of the three leading mobile operators in Ukraine and to obtain rank of the most successive and fast growing company of the telecommunication market in the world.