Why does a successful entrepreneur get back to school? Do the guidelines
of the international faculty help in doing real business? What does
learning in SKOLKOVO give to students besides knowledge? SKOLKOVO
Executive MBA students are the best ones to answer all these questions.
Here are the stories from the ones, who are studying at the Executive
MBA Programme and shortly will become the first SKOLKOVO alumnies.
Armen Vardanyan
Moscow, Russia
class: EMBA I (2009-2010) company: Vagr Vina-Vita position: President, business owner
...My intension was to learn in the first Russian economic school, and it was a fantastic start from the very beginning. And nowadays we feel that we are going to see the light at the end of the tunnel...
Yury Eremenko
Moscow, Russia
class: EMBA I (2009-2010) company: Tekhnosila position: CEO
...It's good to learn think differently...
Vladimir Repiev
Moscow, Russia
class: EMBA I (2009-2010) company: En+ Group position: HR-Director
...I can do things I couldn't even imagine before...
Dmitriy Rubanenko
Moscow, Russia
class: EMBA II (2010-2011) company: Rusforest Management/Lesosobirskiy LDK №1 position: Director/Member of the Board
...SKOLKOVO turned out to be a great place with a combination of high quality education, great faculty and quite substandard way of delivering the information. The intellectual environment is absolutely extraordinary. And it seems that it’s a very nice place to learn from both – professors and from each other...
Oliver Girzick
Munich, Germany
class: EMBA II (2010-2011) company: General Capital Group position: СOO/Chief Analyst
...I chose SKOLKOVO because as for the student from Germany, it’s very important to get the experience and a better understanding of Russian culture and the way of doing business in Russia...
Ravi Sachdeva
New Delhi, India
class: EMBA II (2010-2011) company: Meridian Technologies position: Director General (Country Manager)
...In my search for a World class EMBA school in Europe, I chose SKOLKOVO for two primary reasons: the people/ team behind the startup, their initiative and a clear vision and international faculty from leading business schools. I’m an Indian currently based in Moscow and as per my overall expectations, SKOLKOVO perfectly fits the bill. To my experience, studying process at SKOLKOVO is 100% at par to any global management school...
Svetlana Hoersch
Moscow, Russia
class: EMBA I (2009-2010) company: The World Bank position: Operations Analyst
...I expected to get the high-level business education, good networking and new ideas for business and life. And I got it all in SKOLKOVO. And moreover I feel like I started to understand myself better...
Vartan Dilanyan
Moscow, Russia
class: EMBA I (2009-2010) company: BIN Bank position: Advisor to the President
...My impressions are quite positive and I think it is a big achievement for Russia to have a business education school like SKOLKOVO. What I like here is the highly qualified professors, the group itself and the friendly environment we study in...
Ekaterina Akhanova
Moscow, Russia
class: EMBA I (2009-2010) company: Investment Finance Company Metropol position: Managing Director
...It looked really promissing and this is the reason why I’m here. I wanted to structure my knowledge and this programme helps me to do it. And what is really important is that the management of the programme gives the personal attention to the students...
Vadim Zelenskiy
Moscow, Russia
class: EMBA II (2010-2011) company: Zelenski Corporate Solutions position: General Director
...SKOLKOVO gives a good opportunity to learn more on managerial skills and focus on my leadership development. I think it’s a great place with a great potential and probably the best one in Russia in the area of business administration...
Alexander Shelukhin
Moscow, Russia
class: EMBA II (2010-2011) company: EuroDar LTd. Companies position: Founder
...My expectations were very high and I wanted to get the good networking, brilliant teachers and participation of Founding partners. And I am quite satisfied with everything that I got...
Mikhail Kokorich
Moscow, Russia
class: EMBA I (2009-2010) company: Ilim Timber Industry position: CEO
...Basically, I was one of the last students who joined this Executive MBA programme. For me it was one of the best decisions and for me it’s not only the knowledge, but also the process of socialization in the new business environment...
Moscow, Russia
Munich, Germany
New Delhi, India
