New BMI Executive MBA Class XI Includes High-level Managers from Belarus and Spain

28.11.2009

 

PRESS RELEASE (27 Nov 2009): Forty business leaders today began the 11th International Executive MBA Programme at the Baltic Management Institute (BMI), including executives from top local and international companies.

 

“Moving ahead with our strategic goal of internationalising the student body, we are pleased to welcome executives from Belarus and Spain in the new Executive MBA class,” BMI Director General Jaunius Pusvaškis said. “Geographic and industry diversity adds a lot to the learning experience. And we are very proud that despite the current economic downturn, 40 top-level decision makers have started their knowledge journey at BMI.”

 

BMI’s new group of talented students include managers from global business organizations such as Philip Morris, Statoil, Coca Cola Beverages, IBM, Lindorff and Konica Minolta. Others represent some of the Baltic region’s best-known brands, including mobile telecommunications provider Omnitel, biotechnology developer SICOR Biotech, brewer Švyturys-Utenos alus, law firm LAWIN, and the Milk advertising agency, as well as financial companies Lietuvos Draudimas, Nordea Bank, Danske Bank, PZU Lietuva, and Swedbank gyvybės draudimas.

 

Nearly a third of the members of BMI Executive MBA Class XI are chief executives of their organisations and about 50% hold other senior management positions. They have an average age of 34 and average work experience of 11 years. One quarter are women. All survived a lengthy admissions process which tested candidates’ competence, drive and vision.

 

“The combined strengths of BMI’s international academic consortium and its close links with the local business community allow us to continually update the programme in line with the current needs of executives in this region,” said BMI Academic Dean Prof. Pierre Semal, who has taught in the Executive MBA Programme since it began in 1999.

 

BMI is a consortium of HEC School of Management in Paris, who’s Master in Management is rated No. 1 in Europe by the Financial Times, Denmark’s Copenhagen Business School (CBS), LSM in Belgium, NHH in Norway and Vytautas Magnus University as the Lithuanian partner.

 

The BMI Executive MBA Programme is unique not only for the professors from top European business schools who teach the courses, but also for innovative Real-Life Projects during each stage of studies and a Module Abroad delivered during a week in Shanghai, China.

 

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