OREANDA-NEWS. Today, the MBA-6 group starts training at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO. The SKOLKOVO MBA programme, based on international standards, is ideal for those who plan to develop businesses and build careers in Russia or other countries with rapidly changing economies.

The new group includes over 35 people – senior managers and business owners, representing various industries: finance and investment, IT, services, retail, health etc. The class geography covers the largest Russian cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Magnitogorsk, Yekaterinburg, Perm, and Togliatti. There are also representatives of Kazakhstan and Germany in the group. The newcomers received their student cards on October 20 in the presence of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

SKOLKOVO MBA-6 class has finalists of several educational grant competitions. This year, the grants for MBA students were provided by Russian businessman David Yakobashvili; by A1 Investment Company and personally by its president Alexander Vinokurov; by SKOLKOVO Business School and the Alumni Community represented by SKOLKOVO Patron Club.

"The Business School is growing and improving, and our Alumni are growing with it. Last year, the school launched the grant programme supported by corporations and well-known entrepreneurs. We have an opportunity to help develop this initiative and use it for the benefit of those who will shape the future – the most talented and deserving applicants. We are ready to support the most passionate and brightest candidates whose potential we believe in and whom we wish to see in our ranks. The world’s leading business schools recognize such grants as utterly honourable. We hope that the students will not just succeed themselves thanks to our support, but develop this tradition for future generations of SKOLKOVO students", said Vladimir Voloshin, president of SKOLKOVO Alumni Association.

As per tradition, the first day of the programme was orientation day. The newcomers started school with a team-building on-campus quest dedicated to the Age of Discovery. In the evening, they met the school’s management and received congratulations and a pep talk from SKOLKOVO MBA and EMBA students and alumni.

The MBA-6 students are in for 17 training modules, including two practical international modules in Shanghai and Silicon Valley. They will meet world’s leading professors and Russian practicing experts, receive online training and work actively on their own projects with the help of mentors – the founders, executives and partners of the Business School. This year, the students will be able to hone their projects with Mikhail Kusnirovich, Chairman of Bosco di Ciliegi, and Alexander Abramov, Chairman of Evraz Group S. A., who joined the stellar MBA mentors group.

The MBA-6 programme attendees will defend their final projects and receive diplomas in the spring of 2017.