2008-09-04 10:53:09 - The Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO announces the opening of admission for Executive MBA programme due to start in January, 2009. SKOLKOVO EMBA is a world-level programme that is unique in Russia. It is targeted at mature leaders, top-managers and business-owners with solid managerial experience. The programme's focus is leadership development.

SKOLKOVO EMBA is the first degree programme at SKOLKOVO of 18-month duration. The programme consists of 16 modules, starting in January, 2009, and ending in June, 2010, including 13 four-day modules, 2 six-day modules and 1 seven-day international module in China. The format of the programme will allow the participants to stay in a full-time working process while they are advancing their professional and leadership skills.

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The large part of the programme is devoted to Leadership Development. The Leadership practice course begins with assessment 360, after which an individual Leadership Development plan is developed jointly by a programme participant and his or her coach. An individual coach provides one-on-one, custom leadership-development opportunities for programme participants. SKOLKOVO's coaching framework ensures that the

coach and the coachee establish a confidential, empowering, professional relationship to enhance effectiveness through leadership. Leadership practice also includes team coaching, stress management and skills upgrade in such aspects as communication, presentation, negotiation, conflict management, motivation and others.

One of the most important advantages of the SKOLKOVO EMBA programme is its unique faculty. The knowledge part of the programme will be presented by Noubar Afeyan (MIT Sloan School of Management), Zeger Degraeve (London Business School), Paul Evans and David Young (INSEAD), Keith Goodall (University of Cambridge, Judge Business School), Sergey Guriev (New Economic School), Aneel Karnani (Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan), Jaume Ribera (IESE Business School), Donald Sexton and Paul Thurman (Columbia University), and Kalun Tse (Nyenrode University). Russia-tailored courses were prepared by the faculty exclusively for SKOLKOVO EMBA. Courses also include case-studies based on the experience of SKOLKOVO's Founding Partners.

To add to the programme as another core advantage is the school's unique networking. During the programme, the participants will have an opportunity to meet many outstanding people - representatives of the Russian government, leading businessmen and leaders in the areas of sports, science and the arts. They will come as guest speakers, as lecturers, participants of roundtables or guests at the SKOLKOVO EMBA events.
The programme fee is EUR 90,000. It covers all programme-related costs: tuition fee, accommodation full board, international assignment in China, full pack of educational materials, a laptop and all necessary equipment.

At the programme's launch Svetlana Rakutina, SKOLKOVO ЕМВА Programme Director commented: 'We are glad to announce the beginning of the enrolment for the first degree programme of our school - the SKOLKOVO EMBA. This is the very first world-level EMBA programme in Russia that ties up the team of the best professors from the world's top business-schools and offers personal coaching as a key component in the learning process. The new learning format of the SKOLKOVO EMBA is certain to open to its participants the new horizons for both professional and personal growth, get them to know the new outlines of leadership and help them become more successful'.


'When forming the EMBA programme we concentrated on SKOLKOVO focus, which is leadership and fast growing economies. What sets it apart from any EMBA in the world is its holistic approach in developing leadership talent. To choose the right direction in a rapidly changing world, to make decisions in the situation of uncertainty, to treat the crisis as a positive growth factor - these are only a few tips to success that SKOLKOVO EMBA participants are to learn at the programme. With uncertainty in the Russian and global markets, the SKOLKOVO EMBA is a strategic investment that shall definitely recover through success and stable, all-weather growth for those who are to be decisive and to catch the first enrolment for the SKOLKOVO EMBA', said Wilfried Vanhonacker, Dean of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO.

The Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO is a joint project by major Russian and International business leaders. SKOLKOVO is a dynamically developing international business school with a vision based on a unique mix of three dimensions: entrepreneurial leadership, emerging markets and experiential learning. SKOLKOVO focuses on developing a new type of manager - leaders who will be in demand in the 21st century, the age of human resources and the age of rapidly changing global markets.

Being realized in partnership with the government of the Russian Federation, SKOLKOVO is a part of the national priority projects programme, funded exclusively by private business.

Dmitry Medvedev, the President of the Russian Federation is the Chairman of the SKOLKOVO International Advisory Board.

Since 2006 SKOLKOVO holds short term Executive Education programmes for senior executives and middle managers. Full-time MBA and Executive MBA will be open in 2009, admission for both programmes starts in autumn-2008.

Campus construction will be completed in 2009.