May 2012

Newsletter

1 Highlights
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 KSE Team takes the 3rd Place at the Grand Final of the Worldwide “BNP Paribas Ace Manager” Business Game
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 Dr. Viktor Pynzenyk, Ukraine’s Honorary Economist and Former Minister of Finance, is the keynote speaker of the KSE Alumni Congress
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 Peter Chernyshov, CEO at Carlsberg Ukraine, gave a KSE Open Executive Lecture
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 Andriy Bespyatov, Managing Director, Research, Dragon Capital gave a presentation to KSE students on Dragon Capital’s activities and career opportunities
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 Managing teams of Troika Dialog, KPMG, Ernst & Young, Bain & Company and McKinsey & Company give career presentations to KSE students
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 KSE students had “breakfast under the roof” with the top management of Procter & Gamble
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 KSE students have been offered summer internship positions in the Office of the Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London and in the Directorate for Lending Operation outside Europe—Monitoring Division of the European Investment Bank in Luxemburg
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 KSE students have been admitted for further studies at Berkeley, Princeton and other the top universities
— KSE Alumni have committed over $50,000 to support the school during the next 3 years
— KSE develops a Master’s Program in International Agricultural Management
2 KSE Events
June 22, 2012
 KSE Graduation Ceremony
May 25, 2012
 KSE Alumni Congress
May 24, 2012

 “Breakfast under the roof” for KSE students with the top management of Procter & Gamble
May 15, 2012

 Executive Open Lecture by Peter Chernyshov, CEO at Carlsberg Ukraine
March 23-April 6, 2012 Business career presentations to KSE students
3 An Overview of Recent Developments at KSE

The Kyiv School of Economics, founded byEERC and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, is a world-class academic institution with a reputation for excellence both in Ukraine and internationally. KSE offers internationally recognized full time Master’s Programs inBusiness Economics, Financial Economics and Economic Analysis taught in English by international and Western-trained Ukrainianfaculty who have strong backgrounds in teaching and research. The programs curricula are modeled on the best economic, business, and financial graduate programs in North America and Western Europe. Students are provided with an advanced access to the world economics literature and various informational resources. After the graduation, students have a possibility to receive Master’s diplomas from the University of Houston (US).

 Current KSE statistics:

15     Years in existence
 482   Total number of graduates
 85   Graduates who already received a Ph.D. abroad
 55   Publications by faculty in refereed journals
 31   Total EERC Network Workshops
 1196   Total EERC Network Workshop Participants
 480   Total EERC network grants issued
 10   Current full-time faculty
 54   Students admitted in 2011
 81   Current number of students at the school
4 KSE Team Has Taken the 3rd Place at the Grand Final of the Worldwide “BNP Paribas Ace Manager” Business Game

The team “75/25” consisting of three students of the Kyiv School of Economics – Arsenie Ciobanu, Sergii Kiiashko and Sergiy Meleshchuk – has finished third in the Grand Final of “BNP Paribas Ace Manager” held on April 18th in BNP Paribas’ Headquarters in Paris.

Out of the 2 535 teams who participated in the competition, only five reached the Grand Final. 

The results of the Final are the following:

  • 4th: Fusion and SW&P (Russia)
  • 3rd: 75/25 (Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine)
  • 2nd: Olivbergen (Sweden)
  • 1st: Kinetic (Singapore)

We are very proud that a KSE team has become the first Ukrainian team that has ever made it to the Grand Final and took the third place in this Grand Final of the Worldwide “BNP Paribas Ace Manager” Business Game.

5 KSE Open Executive Lecture on “Motivation” by Peter Chernyshov, CEO at Carlsberg Ukraine

On May 15, 2012 Mr. Peter Chernyshov, CEO at Carlsberg Ukraine, gave an Open Executive Lecture on “Motivation” to KSE students and students from different Ukrainian universities. 

Mr. Chernyshov shared with students his view on the main ways to motivate employees and the roles of the top management in this.

The presentation by Mr. Chernyshov raised many questions from students. The student with the best question was awarded a ticket to Euro 2012. 

6 Company Presentations at KSE

The Kyiv School of Economics is actively looking for practitioners to give guest presentations to KSE students. The purpose of such lectures is to bring 'real life' examples and experience to the KSE classroom.

Recent presentations include: 



In addition, Ernst & Young organized an Open House for KSE students held in E&Y office on April 2. On May 24 KSE students had a “breakfast under the roof” with the top management of Procter & Gamble.

If your company is interested in giving guest lectures or in organizing recruitment events to KSE students, pleasecontact Svitlana Bocharova at bocharova@kse.org.ua or telephone: 492-8012 (ext. 118).  

7 KSE Internship Program

We would like to express our gratitude to the following companies for inviting KSE students for summer internships, so far:

Since 1996, KSE has graduated 482 students. KSE graduates are excellent professionals who have advanced skills in economic modeling and analysis, and are in high demand on both the international and local job markets. Today KSE alumni are employed by various companies and institutions around the world at the positions of economists, analysts, and consultants with international banks, investment funds, consulting, auditing, industrial firms, as well as international financial institutions and western think tanks.

In order to give KSE students an opportunity to gain practical experience and to apply their economic training to real-life situations, KSE maintains an Internship Program placing students to work on a full- or part-time basis in various companies and institutions.

If your company is interested in hosting KSE students as interns, please contact Svitlana Bocharova at bocharova@kse.org.ua or telephone: 492-8012 (ext. 118). 

8 KSE Students Have Been Admitted for PhD and Graduate Studies to Berkeley, Princeton and Other Top Universities

KSE students have recently been admitted to MA and PhD programs at the following universities in US and Europe: 

US:
Arizona State University 
Princeton University
RAND Graduate School
University of California-Berkley (US)
University of Houston

Europe:
Bocconi University (Italy)
CERGE-EI (Czech Republic)
Fribourg University (Switzerland)
Said Business School, University of Oxford (UK)

Our sincere congratulations to our students! We are very much proud of their successes!

9 Alumni Giving to KSE

75 alumni have committed to support the school financially, with a total commitment of over $22,000 for this year. Most of these alumni have pledged multiple year (3-year) contributions, for a grand total of over $50,000. 

For a small and young school, KSE alumni giving rate is at 17.8%, whereas the average alumni giving rate in the US colleges where there is a much longer history of alumni giving is 13.5%.

We would like to thank our graduates for such a generous support!

10 KSE Master`s Program in International Agricultural Management

KSE is preparing the launch of a program in International Agricultural Management.

This 10 month program will help agricultural managers to take their business to a new level. The program will expose students to modern knowledge in agribusiness, management and economics as well as the best practices in agri-entrepreneurship through case studies, field trips, internship and international experience exchange.

The program will be implemented in collaboration with international partners from France, Norway and Georgia.

All courses will develop hard skills (lecture-based) and soft skills (group-work on successful business cases).
More details: www.kse.org.ua.

11 Recent Media Publications by KSE Faculty

14.05.2012: Olena Nizalova in her blog at Korrespondent.net on how to fight the practice of giving bribes
07.05.2012: Olena Nizalova in her blog at Korrespondent.net on how much do holidays during the crisis cost 
01.05.2012: Olena Nizalova for Forbes on inequality in the Ukrainian labor market
23.04.2012: Tom Coupe for Investgazeta about what could have been done with the money spent on Euro-2012 
20.04.2012: Olena Nizalova in her blog at Korrespondent.net on how "easy" it is to have business in Ukraine
12.04.2012: Tom Coupe for Commersant about the effect of Euro-2012 on the hryvna exchange rate 
04.04.2012: Tom Coupe analyzed for Forbes how bonuses for national teams could change the results of Euro-2012 
23.03.2012: Blog by Volodymr Vakhitov became the top blog of the week at Korrespondent.net 
02.03.2012: Denys Nizalov for Forbes about the necessity of implementing land reform

For more media publications please visit the  KSE web site