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This paper delineates a seven-year program in Ukraine that took a systemic approach to initiating change in the design of undergraduate, post-diploma, and MBA, business programs. Five design principles guided the process: (1) designing curriculum based on stakeholder needs and accreditation standards; (2) determining the appropriate balance of hard and soft skills in the curriculum; (3) focusing on attitude change, the need for continuing education, and ‘learning how to learn;’ (4) designing integrative rather than exclusively discipline-based education; and (5) developing partnerships with a variety of stakeholders in Ukraine, the United States, and Poland.
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August 24, 1991.
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University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Warsaw School of Economics, the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, the Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management, and the Higher Business School in Nowy Sacz/National Luis University.
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The early termination of the BMEU Project was because U.S.AID decided to eliminate Economic Growth Programs in Ukraine and other CEE countries due to the growing budget deficit and changes in funding priorities.
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Mostly faculty members and university administrators.
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With a total of over 200,000 graduates (Business Management Education in Ukraine: Final report, 2005).
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In a dynamic learning community, all members share a desire to support each other in the process of learning; everyone learns, including the professor (cf. Wilson & Cole, 1997. Transformative communication is the norm, with both sender and receiver of messages changed by the interaction (Pea, 1994).
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Critical thinking has been defined (Halpern, 1997) as “thinking that is purposeful, reasoned, and goal directed” and “the ability to analyze carefully and logically information and ideas from multiple perspectives.”
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The merits of case studies in business education are well known (see, e.g., Barnes et al. 1994).
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Barr & Tagg (1995).
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Personal communication with Professor Nina Ushakova, (November 13, 2002). In Mikelonis, V. “Re-inventing the academy in Ukraine,” (2002).
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Interview with Professor Alla Voronova, Director of Marketing and International Relations at the International Management Institute (IMI) in Kyiv, November 12, 2001. IMI is a private institute and one of the earliest institutions to develop MBA programs. Its first Director was an American, Mr. Andrey Masiuk, and it was initially supported by foreign donors. Such private institutions were looked at askance by public institutions, so having the public institutions actively consulting with them was a coup for IMI and increased their credibility.
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Galina Nazarova was the Pro-rector of the Kharkiv Economics and Technical University in Kharkiv. Her institution was particularly successful in making curricular, administrative, and physical (new buildings) changes that radically transformed the institution. Funding for these changes came largely from outside donors.
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Smith, S., Mikelonis, V. (2008). Designing Business Education for Ukraine: Lessons Learned. In: Barsky, N.P., Clements, M., Ravn, J., Smith, K. (eds) The Power of Technology for Learning. Advances in Business Education and Training, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8747-9_6
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