For over 4 years, kmbs has been part of the global network of business schools, the Executive MBA Council, which provides the opportunity to influence the development of management education at an international level, be in a shared semantic field, and exchange experiences with representatives of top educational institutions.

Andriy Nakonechnyi, head of international development, provided more details about EMBAC and kmbs's membership in this global network:

What is the Executive MBA Council (EMBAC)?

The Executive MBA Council (EMBAC) is a professional association of over 200 business schools and universities worldwide that work with executive education. The organization was founded in 1981 with its main office in California, USA.

EMBAC's mission is to promote the development of management education by spreading best practices among member schools, conducting research, organizing conferences, and professional forums. It is also important to note that EMBAC is closely connected with almost all key associations and professional organizations in the field of management education — the American AACSB was directly involved in the creation of EMBAC, and EFMD, AMBA, and CEEMAN are strategic partners of the community.

When and how did kmbs join EMBAC?

Becoming part of EMBAC is quite challenging — it is a kind of "closed club" for the best business schools, where great attention is paid to the quality of the environment, as the environment itself is the key value of the community. Therefore, a mandatory condition for joining is having at least two recommendations from existing EMBAC members, and only after receiving these recommendations does the long process of admitting a candidate school to the community begin. The Kyiv-Mohyla Business School successfully passed all stages of joining the Executive MBA Council and has been a full member of the community since June 2017.

What does membership in EMBAC provide, and what is the uniqueness of this organization?

The Executive MBA Council is primarily a platform for exchanging experiences and discussing key challenges in the field of management education among member schools. Since all the top business schools in the world are part of the community, it is the EMBAС participants who determine the development vector of the entire field. Thanks to a wide network of partnerships, EMBAC conducts several comprehensive general and specialized studies in the field of management education each year, the results of which are exclusively available to member schools.

The qualitative difference of EMBAC from similar organizations is the maximum openness of participants and the informality of communication — through the understanding that here "only our own" practically any barriers to information exchange disappear, even very sensitive ones. It is a unique value to be able to openly discuss any professional issues with leaders from INSEAD, IMD, or Oxford's Saïd Business School — both offline during conferences and various meetings, and virtually — through a special online platform. And what is extremely important is the opportunity not only to listen but also to share one's own experience. It is extremely gratifying to realize that the experience of kmbs is valuable to the world's top schools.

Membership of kmbs in the global EMBAC network is an opportunity to discuss best practices in management education with representatives of top international business schools