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Our MBA is a full-time program that plays a key role in our mission to develop the next generation of business leaders in Kazakhstan and Central Asia. Intended for early-career professionals, our MBA program provides you with the skills, knowledge, and mindset needed to.
Our MBA is a full-time program that plays a key role in our mission to develop the next generation of business leaders in Kazakhstan and Central Asia. Intended for early-career professionals, our MBA program provides you with the skills, knowledge, and mindset needed to.
Curriculum
This course is meant to strengthen students’ leadership skills and begin to set goals for their personal development throughout the program. It includes several team activities designed to complement the principles and frameworks taught in later courses, e.g. Managerial Effectiveness.
The course provides basic mathematics as well as computer skills required to achieve functional literacy with a basic set of business software tools. It covers the ways this software might be used in course work for the MBA program. Course materials are written for Microsoft Office Windows 2010 software.
This course focuses on the construction and interpretation of corporate financial reports, which are used by external parties (including investors, creditors, and regulators). Actual financial statements from real companies are discussed so that students become accustomed to the many variations that these reports take. Students gain a solid understanding of financial statements and the ability to use them for decision-making.
Management decisions are often made under conditions of uncertainty. This course introduces a framework for thinking about problems involving uncertainty and, building on this framework, develops tools for interpreting data. The emphasis is on applying the concepts rather than on theoretical development. The goal is to provide an appropriate foundation in probability and statistics for subsequent courses and for a management career.
The ability to express oneself effectively is a key determinant of the impact and influence one is able to have within an organization. Given the central role financial analysis plays in a business setting, it is equally critical to have a strong skill set in presenting, describing and interpreting spreadsheet data and graphs.
This course provides a rigorous treatment of the fundamental principles of capital markets, investments, and asset pricing. Topics include income and equity securities and markets, asset allocation, asset pricing models, active portfolio management, performance evaluation, the interaction between capital markets and the macro economy, as well as alternative investments such as hedge funds and private equity.
The purpose of this course is to prepare students to be effective leaders and managers of others and how best to organize people. It focuses on the principles to analyze and improve organizations, design incentive systems, motivate employees, run effective teams, make good decisions, harness diversity, organize the distribution of work, as well as what defines an effective leader.
This course covers the fundamental concepts and tools of microeconomics: supply and demand analysis, market determination of prices and quantities, consumer choices, market demand, and production and cost theory. Tools for market structure analysis are also explained and applied to monopoly and oligopoly markets as well as to price discrimination. Lastly, game theory is explained and applied to analyze strategic decisions from an economic standpoint.
This course provides students with the necessary understanding of the basic marketing concepts and analytic skills so that students can intelligently address how to create and fulfill these wants and needs and, in the process, also obtain the necessary differentiation so that the firm can earn a meaningful profit. Thus, the course introduces students to the principles, processes and tools necessary to analyze markets and design optimal marketing programs.
The course adopts the perspective of managers within the corporation, division, or other operating unit who must mesh their individual responsibilities with the overall objectives of the firm. The course focuses on the perspectives and skills required to diagnose and find realistic solutions for strategic problems in complex business situations. Students learn how to analyze a case end-to-end and recommend an appropriate course of action.
The course focuses on planning, decision-making, and control, and covers two main topics: cost management systems and management control systems. Cost management systems generate information about the costs of the goods and services sold by the organization to facilitate decision-making that maximizes the organization’s economic interests. Management control systems are used to monitor performance, and reward the employees in such a way that their economic best interests are aligned with those of the owners of the organization.
Operations management involves planning and controlling the processes used to produce the goods and services provided by an organization. In essence, it is the management of all activities related to doing the actual work of the organization. Students are exposed to various issues and problems confronted by operations in both manufacturing and service organizations. The course covers modeling and methodologies for the resolution of these issues and problems. It also explains how a firm’s operations can provide competitive advantage.
This course helps you understand the economics of financial markets and the global economic context in which managers make decisions. The overall economic environment strongly influences the decisions made by the firm, be it in marketing, finance or production. The course will lay down some simple approaches to understand the inter-linkages in the global economy. These simple approaches will then be applied to specific problems that a firm or an economy will face in an international context.
Decision problems involving uncertainty or many variables are difficult to grasp intuitively. In these cases we may benefit from using a computer-based model to explore and evaluate the possibilities in a systematic fashion. This course introduces several commonly used modeling frameworks and provides an introduction to the art and science of modeling decisions. The ideas and skills learned in this course are applicable in most areas of business.
This course takes the perspective of financial managers responsible for making significant investment and financing decisions. It covers financial tools and applications, e.g. discounted cash flow analysis as well as equilibrium risk and return tradeoffs. The course also covers topics of importance to anyone seeking a job in the financial markets industry, e.g. venture capital, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, and financial distress.
This course is intended to provide prospective entrepreneurs with information and tools for evaluating opportunities for starting a new venture, understanding what resources and capabilities it will take to enter and provide a platform for future growth, and what business model to choose. The course focuses on innovation-intensive industries such as computers, software, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and communications.
This course will help students understand the theory and processes of negotiation as practiced in diverse settings, recognize the components of an effective negotiation, and analyze the individuals own behavior in negotiations. The course will be largely experiential, giving the student an opportunity to develop his/her skills by participating in numerous negotiation exercises and integrating the individual’s experiences with the principles presented in the assigned readings and class discussions.
The course provides a framework to analyze and interpret financial statements, exposes students to the publicly available sources of financial information used in capital markets, and develops important Excel modeling skills pertaining to financial planning and analysis. More specifically, this course deals with the analysis of companies, with special emphasis on how a firm’s strategy choices affect both current and forecasted financial statements.
The course is designed to explore the practices of human resources managers such as job and competence analysis, HR planning, recruitment and selection, performance management, compensation and benefits, employee engagement, retention and turnover. The course helps to develop soft skills necessary for HR specialists and raise awareness of critical human resource related issues as well as aligning HR strategy with business strategy of the company. This course will formulate and evaluate HR tools and practices that will develop students’ critical thinking skills and foster cutting-edge approach to manage people in organizations. The student will learn about major debates in current research about the roles and practices of HR managers focusing on different aspects of the field of study. The class discussions will revolve around critical investigation of actual challenges in employee motivation, work and life balance, performance management and appraisal.
Talent Management is an emerging field of HRM discipline and focused on identifying, recruitment and retention of talents within companies and organizations.
The course examines talent philosophies, the best practices in strategies and tools to create and sustain the talent pipeline; issues in the area of building and maintaining a strong talent management life cycle. It looks at the creation of strategies to recruit talent and systems of personal/professional development to grow the organization. The course also explores promotion and cross-functional systems that will strengthen the organization as well as retention strategies to promote and reward high quality talent.
Master students will engage in various activities intended to illustrate and practice the skills involved in implementing talent management systems.
Module aims:
The objective of the course is to enable students understand concepts, theories, practices and metrics of talent management in order to enhance the performance and gain competitive advantage by creating a robust talent management program.
The course examines talent philosophies, the best practices in strategies and tools to create and sustain the talent pipeline; issues in the area of building and maintaining a strong talent management life cycle. It looks at the creation of strategies to recruit talent and systems of personal/professional development to grow the organization. The course also explores promotion and cross-functional systems that will strengthen the organization as well as retention strategies to promote and reward high quality talent.
Master students will engage in various activities intended to illustrate and practice the skills involved in implementing talent management systems.
Module aims:
The objective of the course is to enable students understand concepts, theories, practices and metrics of talent management in order to enhance the performance and gain competitive advantage by creating a robust talent management program.
This course will serve as an introduction to Human Resource Analytics. We will explore the use of analytics within the Human Resource discipline. Through guest speakers and class case studies, students will hear from HR professionals experienced in the areas of HR Leadership, Employee Benefits, Compensation, Talent Acquisition and Talent Management. We will also explore how effective storytelling techniques with data can help the analytic effort be successful.
This course presents competent communication as a critical component for personal career and organizational success. We will work to understand the foundation of competent communication in the business world as well as to assess and improve our own verbal communication to be more effective, clear, appropriately assertive, and based in foundations of personal integrity and leadership. Students will practice developing and delivering presentations, using appropriate and effective visual support, which will demonstrate relevance and benefits to audiences at varying levels or expertise and interest.
This course is designed to enhance students’ skills related to managing and rewarding employee performance. The course provides an in-depth understanding of performance management and the various tools and techniques that can be used to enhance an employee's contribution to the organization. The course will also explore how organizations can design reward and performance management programs to strategically promote company performance. This course also discusses the relationship between rewards and performance.
This module covers the area of strategic human resource management, offering a comprehensive cover of the advances in the HRM field. The module revolves around the design and execution of HRM strategies. This canters around how to think systematically and strategically about aspects of managing the organization's human assets, and what really needs to be done to implement these policies and to achieve competitive advantage.
The purpose of this course is to gain an understanding of the driving forces for organizational change, selected tools for diagnosing the need for change, and various tactics for leading the change process in contemporary organizations, whether in the public or private sector, or in domestic or international/multinational companies.
Students will be introduced to the theories, concepts and practices associated with leading change, whether planned, incremental and localized, or revolutionary, under conditions of stability or crisis and system-wide. In effect, change theories and contemporary practices will be examined at the individual, group/departmental and organizational levels. Beyond studying the causes and consequences of change, we will also investigate potential sources of resistance to change and tactics for overcoming them.
In brief, after reviewing course material on change and through intensive case analyses, we will study where the need for change is called for (context), what form or type of change and interventions are required (content), how change can be successfully implemented or led (process), and competencies required of effective change leaders and change agents.
Students will be introduced to the theories, concepts and practices associated with leading change, whether planned, incremental and localized, or revolutionary, under conditions of stability or crisis and system-wide. In effect, change theories and contemporary practices will be examined at the individual, group/departmental and organizational levels. Beyond studying the causes and consequences of change, we will also investigate potential sources of resistance to change and tactics for overcoming them.
In brief, after reviewing course material on change and through intensive case analyses, we will study where the need for change is called for (context), what form or type of change and interventions are required (content), how change can be successfully implemented or led (process), and competencies required of effective change leaders and change agents.