Work Starts on First Russian Business School September 26, 2006, The St. Petersburg Times.
President Vladimir Putin laid the foundation stone Thursday for a Moscow-area business school...
...Some of the country's best-known business leaders have agreed to help fund the $300 million project...
...as part of the two-year MBA program...
...Fourteen business leaders and companies, including Vardanyan and the country's richest man, Roman Abramovich, have agreed to donate up to $5 million each to the school...
...Construction of the school is expected to total $128 million, with another $100 million being plowed into an endowment. An additional $32 million will be spent on miscellaneous costs,..
OTHER SOURCES
Moscow’s new school looks west, Financial Times
Russian oligarchs open wallets to back biz school, Reuters India
Russian rarity: Birth of a real business school, International Herald Tribune
Oligarchs set up college for budding millionaires, The Times
Live and let live. Tobias.
Posted by: Tobias | Saturday, 28 October 2006 at 04:38 AM