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Article: PERESTROIKA, TO A DEGREE FIRST RUSSIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL SCOURS US FOR GUEST LECTURERS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 10, 1989
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Perestroika has reached new heights in the Soviet Union.
Although you can't buy a copy of Fortune magazine, you can now earn
an MBA.
The Soviet Union's first graduate school of management opened
in June and is busily recruiting for the winter term guest
lecturers from top-notch capitalist business schools, including
Harvard.
"Everyone knows American business schools are first in the
world," said Valeri Kazikaev, general director of the Moscow
International Business School (MIRBIS), in an interview in Boston
yesterday.
Graduates of MIRBIS probably will not drive BMWs or trade
bonds on Wall Street -- making money for the sake of making money
is still very much taboo in the USSR, ...