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Пресса о DataArt
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Для прессыРоссия и Украина
Юлия Завилейская
Елена Федорова
Наталья Горак
Анастасия Подольская
Ольга Тарасова
Ольга Денисенко США, Великобритания
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Пресса о DataArt
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Для прессыРоссия и Украина
Юлия Завилейская
Елена Федорова
Наталья Горак
Анастасия Подольская
Ольга Тарасова
Ольга Денисенко США, Великобритания
Вика Виноградова |
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Management is a rather time-consuming activity. The working day of an average Russian manager, if energetic and highly motivated, can last up to 14 hours, sometimes sacrificing weekends for an important project. How could he possibly find the time to get an MBA degree as well? Local business people give us some clues.
Reasoning behind the time
“Finding the time to complete an MBA program is, of course, one of the crucial factors. You have to persuade colleagues and your family that the time you’d spend on it would be acceptable,” said Mikhail Zavileisky, COO of DataArt local office, currently studying strategic marketing at Stockholm School of Economics in St. Petersburg.
“I think that doing 10 to 12 modules a year, attending classes from Friday till Monday, is the most rational option. Modules running five days a week are almost incompatible with working. If you have modules on the second Friday of each month and weekend, it is hard on the family,” Zavileisky said.
Another ex-student agreed with the decisive role of time.
“I looked for a program with a healthy mixture of in-house seminars and independent study,” said Yury Mikhailov, managing partner at Consort Petersburg.
Mikhailov believes an eighteen-month program at IMISP, which had classes every other Friday or Saturday and a couple of evenings per week, was “the best adjusted.”
“You studied two subjects at the same time by spending fifty plus hours in the classroom and twice as much doing research at home and lots of required reading. You had to independently manage your time and the balance described above turned out to be the best,” Mikhailov said.
Viktor Suschev, director for DocsVision project, considered his scheme of studying at the School of Management of St. Petersburg State University the most suitable for managers unable to interrupt their working schedule.
He studied two or three evenings a week. Once a month he had lectures at the weekend and once every three months a whole week of lectures.
Nikita Pasechnik, COO at Digital Design, by contrast, left the company for one year to get an MBA degree at INSEAD in France.
“We studied from 6 a.m. till 12 p.m. without holidays under serious pressure. Only that way you can get high quality knowledge and skills,” he said.
“To study something deeply you need to be absorbed in the education process completely. Economizing on time always affects the quality of your education. The world’s business schools all offer MBA programs that assume complete separation of students from work,” Pasechnik said.
Much more important than a timetable, Pasechnik considered the types of student admitted and a school’s lecturers.
“INSEAD offered the world’s best professors, who had experience in the largest companies,” Pasechnik said.
It depends On The Student
Any type of MBA program could prove suitable despite proving time-consuming — it is a matter of who does the program.
“Fussy students should be automatically removed, otherwise they constantly leave lectures for work and meetings. But those with family feel miserable being far away from their loved ones. The more compactly the group lives the shorter the duration of modules should be,” Zavileisky said. A full-time MBA is suitable for people able to take time out, he said.
Business does not always allow study every evening, Mikhailov said. However more convenient module-based programs demand a lot of weekend time while the breaks in the continuity of the curriculum produce irregularities in the MBA workload, he added.
Mikhailov considered year-long MBA programs with day classes the best for people who are thinking about their careers and can afford not to work while module-programs could be an option for senior managers.
Mikhail Korolkov, leading consultant at Siemens Business Services, suggested that managers who need to improve their qualification urgently could choose day studies or studying abroad.
“Managers with regular working hours should attend courses on evenings and holidays while managers with irregular working hours could choose a mixed MBA program including an optimum proportion of day and evening classes,” he said.
However, some ex-students are categorically against quitting work for the sake of business education, saying the two things should always complement each other.
Anatoly Surkis, financial director of Digital Design, said a two to two-and-a-half year period is the optimum length of course, but maintained that time in itself is not the main issue.
Surkis did an MBA at IMISP, studying two Fridays and Saturdays each month with consultations on some evenings.
“Learning should run parallel to work otherwise it is inefficient. I tried new knowledge in practice and wrote case studies concerning the company’s real situation,” Surkis said.
He said that concentration, the ability to get satisfaction from communicating and getting new knowledge were the main factors that helped reconcile oneself to a tough schedule.
Small tricks
Zavileisky suggested that compromise was needed since it is “unreal to be the best in your work and studies and spend enough time at home.”
He proposed setting clear priorities and “using every opportunity to show one’s endeavor, so as to be able to ask for leniency later.”
“You should not regret things left undone or things you’ve missed, the world is more tolerant and our role is less significant than we used to think,” he said.
A practical option is to use schedule devices in Outlook, GoldMine and other programs and to not be ashamed of taking a laptop to lectures, Zavileisky said.
Korolkov stressed the importance of receiving support from one’s family and senior colleagues at work, the ability to plan your activities and keep to this plan and “to work in any conditions — at the kitchen at home, in a train, in a plane, at the airport.”
Mikhailov confessed that during the first two months of his MBA program he repeatedly asked himself why he’d taken on such a burden and often “felt like a martyr dragging one’s feet along Via Dolorosa.”
“You did have to have a lot of stamina and strength, and make your family and friends understand why you were doing this,” Mikhailov said.
However, with a certain amount of will and self-discipline, he managed to start enjoying his studies. Moreover, in the first three months after graduation he even missed this way of operating.
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