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Our MBA is a 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.
New program delivery in the evenings and weekends allows busy professionals to earn an MBA degree in 17 months while continuing their career growth.
Our MBA is a 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.
New program delivery in the evenings and weekends allows busy professionals to earn an MBA degree in 17 months while continuing their career growth.
MBA Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the MBA, graduates will be able to:
- Apply technical and conceptual skills to problem solving in local and international settings.
- Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of business theory and strategy development in business contexts.
- Think critically when assessing business situations.
- Lead themselves and others with exceptional teamwork, communication and collaborative skills.
- Utilize ethical considerations and diverse perspectives for decision-making and leadership.
MBA students will typically be assessed according to the following assessment methods:
Final Grades in courses
Assignment grades in courses
Written Practicum Project
Practicum Project Oral Defense
Final Grades in courses
Assignment grades in courses
Written Practicum Project
Practicum Project Oral Defense
Satisfactory completion of the MBA program requires that the student progress through a number of distinct stages:
Satisfactory application to the program.
Satisfactory completion of all required coursework with a CGPA of 2.67.
Satisfactory completion of the final practicum project.
Satisfactory application to the program.
Satisfactory completion of all required coursework with a CGPA of 2.67.
Satisfactory completion of the final practicum project.
Curriculum
This orientation course lays the foundation for success in the MBA program by providing students with the necessary skills and knowledge to navigate academic challenges, work collaboratively, and develop the mindset required for effective leadership in the business world. Designed to acclimate students to the MBA program, the course focuses on creating a collaborative learning environment and imparting the fundamental principles necessary for success in advanced business studies. Through interactive sessions, team building activities, and exposure to core management theories, students will gain a solid foundation for navigating the MBA program and building the skills essential for effective teamwork and leadership.
The goal of this course is to equip students with knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for detailed examination and evaluation of financial and managerial accounting information in order to make informed business decisions. A large aspect of the course covers the fundamentals of financial accounting, but the course also introduces central elements of managerial accounting as an additional source of information for internal business decisions.
This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the critical role that effective leadership and communication play in modern organizational success. The course explores various leadership styles, communication strategies, and their integration into the dynamic business environment. Emphasizing both theoretical framework and practical application, the course prepares MBA students to become effective, ethical, and adaptable leaders who can navigate the complexities of contemporary business environments through strong leadership and communication competencies.
This course is designed to empower business leaders with the essential knowledge and skills to harness the power of data for strategic decision-making. In today's data-driven business environment, managers need to leverage data analytics to gain insights, optimize processes, and drive organizational success. This course provides a comprehensive introduction to data analytics tools, techniques, and applications, emphasizing their relevance in managerial decision-making. Through hands-on exercises and case studies, students will learn to transform data into actionable intelligence, enhancing their ability to lead data-driven initiatives within their organizations.
To be an effective manager and leader requires both a broad understanding of how organizations function as well as personal skills for managing people and relationships. This course addresses fundamental issues at both levels. At the organizational level, we develop a framework that links concepts from psychology, sociology, and economics to the inner workings of the corporation. From this, we develop a set of tools for analyzing the basic issues and dilemmas that effective managers must successfully negotiate. At both the individual and team level, we help build the skills that effective managers need to implement their insights and decisions.
This course aims to provide an analytical and conceptual basis to guide managerial decisions in complex business environments. To this end, the course introduces analytical tools that are frequently used in economics. The approach that we develop offers you a powerful framework to assess various problems businesses are confronted with on a daily basis and hence it provides a good framework of an optimal business strategy.
The course examines the theory of financial decision-making by firms and examines the behavior of the capital markets in which these decisions are taken. The topics covered are goals and governance of a firm, TVM (time value of money), the basics of valuing bonds and stocks, NPV (net present value), IRR (Internal Rate of Return) and other investment criteria, and capital budgeting. Each topic is illustrated with financial models built in Microsoft Excel. The underlying concept is the concept of value and value creation. Upon the completion of the course the students will be able to build a spreadsheet model of a typical business project and analyze it from the financial perspective.
The concepts and skills you learn in this course will enable you to develop a coherent marketing strategy for an organization. The course is aimed at helping you identify and capitalize on market opportunities. The emphasis throughout is on the profitable application of marketing ideas and techniques. Students will (a) develop a curiosity and interest in marketing, (b) acquire sufficient basic skills to assist their career, and (c) maintain a permanent market orientation, whatever the career path.
The focus of this course is the successful creation, development and exit of a new venture. The course is intended to cover a variety of types of new ventures, but special attention will be paid to the role of innovation and financial success in entrepreneurship.
The purpose of the course in strategy is to make participants familiar with the core concepts and techniques that function as foundations for formulating and implementing successful strategies. However, its basic intent is not on mastering specific analytical tools but rather on using strategic thinking and the development of a managerial attitude to guide actions in the face of uncertainty and complexity. So the main focus of the course is to learn how to use and apply these skills when judging complex management situations.
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. Managing these processes can be quite challenging -they are often very complex, and can involve large numbers of people and facilities, huge volumes of materials and great distances. Managed well, an organization's operations can be a key source of competitive advantage. They can play a critical role in facilitating an organization's marketing strategy, and they can enable an organization to deliver its products or services with high quality at low cost. Managed poorly, operations can be a significant contributor to disappointing results. As a result, a fundamental understanding of operations management is important for all managers within an organization
Global challenges such as climate, food security, water availability, inequality, natural resource degradation, biodiversity, and climate change increasingly put people and businesses at risk. Yet these same trends can create profitable opportunities for companies if innovation is harnessed to create products, processes, and business models that provide solutions for growing global markets. As environmental and social challenges grow, companies are increasingly integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations into operations, strategies and investments. In particular, the scale and urgency of the climate crisis are creating a rapidly evolving range of new risks, requirements, opportunities, and expectations for companies to navigate. In this course students will learn the relevance of governance, social and environmental issues to their industry or function, and understand the interaction of business, government, and society in addressing society’s challenges.
The Practicum project provides students with exposure to business activity in domestic and/or international markets. This experiential learning project and course capitalizes on individual strengths, experiences, and interests of the students to build their business competency. It is a field study project and research course, the objective of which is to help students increase their knowledge of the complexities of organizations, and the role that the institutional environment plays in the conduct and performance of business. As such, this capstone project is intended to represent a synthesis and application of the MBA learning outcomes and demonstrate business competence, exceptional teamwork skills, knowledge of core business theory, and effective communication skills.
Elective course offerings change from year to year. Examples of electives include: Corporate Finance, Business Law, Consumer Behavior, Negotiations, Project Management, International Finance, Marketing Strategy, Emerging Markets Strategy, Internship.