kmbs philosophy

Kyiv Mohyla Business School [kmbs] is a school of intellectual and spiritual stretching that inspires leaders. It was established in 1999 in of the oldest universities in Eastern Europe – Kyiv Mohyla Academy. 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. Innovativeness, practice-orientation and demanding approach are key differentiation points of kmbs.

Among our biggest successes:

• kmbs was three times in a row named the #1 business school in Ukraine according to the annual rating of “Delovoy” magazine
• kmbs was the first in Ukraine to launch Presidents' MBA program specially designed for business owners, MBF [Master in Banking and Finance] program and first regional European Goldratt Schools Ukraine
• kmbs was the first to bring Philip Kotler, Chan Kim and Ichak Adizes as visiting professors for kmbs MBA programs
• kmbs has received the Unconditional Accreditation of Central and East European Management Development Association [CEEMAN] for 5 years

Our vision: to be recognized as one of the best European business school

Our mission: inspiring leaders

Our values:

• Passionate focus on success of our clients
• Love it, change it or leave it
• You just have to want it!

Key products:

• Presidents’ MBA program for business owners
• Executive MBA program for experienced managers
• Master in Banking and Finance program for financiers
• Executive Development Programs
• Corporate programs
• Innovations.com.ua – online portal for innovative managers

Metaphore: Intellectual and Spiritual Stretching for Business Leaders

Being intellectual leader in Ukrainian business-education market, kmbs strives for continuous improvement and wishes to create environment for intellectual and spiritual stretching. Leading business representatives, who study and teach at kmbs, are ready to accept and more important – to initiate positive changes in themselves, their companies and business environment as a whole. We help them to understand it and to change attitude and thinking paradigms.