Moscow, March 10, 2010. - Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO starts the second multi-module integrated programme “Iron and Steel Company Development Management” aimed at training the managerial personnel of Evraz Group S.A.

The purpose of this comprehensive educational programme is to create a common understanding among its participants of the company’s strategic goals and objectives through systematising accumulated experience, adopting the world’s best practices, mastering project work methods, and improving competences needed for effective change management in the present-day world. Many subjects within the scope of the programme correlate with the aims and objectives that were the cornerstone during a strategic session of the company held in early December 2009.

This year’s programme participants represent 50 managers from the Management company as well as the regional industrial sites: heads of departments and divisions, senior specialists, project managers, process engineers and foremen. Notably, this year was particularly successful for the regions’ representatives.  All the participants were qualified during a detailed multilevel selection process. Seven candidates competed for one place.

This programme covers a period of 4 months. Besides the theoretical section, each programme module includes individual projects for participants. Unlike last year’s programme for Evraz Group S.A., each module of this programme will last seven academic days.

By tradition, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO will involve professors from the world’s leading business schools for its programme. The programme also includes analysis of case histories of Evraz Group S.A., discussions of business cases and industrial problems, teamwork on strategic projects and submitting the projects to company management, as well as presentations by visiting experts who are the current leaders of major industrial companies and who are acting as programme professors.

Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO is a joint project of Russian and international business representatives, who joined their efforts to create a business new-generation school from scratch. Focusing on practical knowledge, the Moscow School of Management dedicates itself to training leaders, who intend to implement their professional knowledge in the conditions of rapidly developing markets. SKOLKOVO is defined by: leadership and business undertakings, rapidly developing markets focus, innovative approach towards educational methods.

The Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO project is fulfilled by the governmental-private partnership within the framework of the Education Foreground National Project. The project is financed by private investors, and doesn’t use governmental budget recourses. The President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is Chairman of the SKOLKOVO International Advisory Board.

Since 2006 SKOLKOVO conducts short educational Executive Education programmes for top and medium-level managers –  open programmes and specialized, integrated modules based on the companies requests. SKOLKOVO launched  Executive МВА programme in January 2009, first class of the international Full-time MBA programme -  in September 2009, second Executive MBA class started in January 2010.  The enrollment  process for MBA and Executive MBA programmes which will  begin in September 2010 has already started.

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