The MIM Business School held the official opening of the third cohort of the Women Leadership Program — a joint initiative of MIM and the Institute for Management Development (IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland), the world's №1 business school in Executive Education according to the Financial Times. 
In total, the admissions committee received 600 applications, and 270 were selected to participate in the competition.All candidates went through two stages of evaluation: first by the Ukrainian side, and then by the Swiss committee. 
Since its founding, the program has been aimed at developing women leaders in business, the public sector, government administration, and veteran entrepreneurship. At the same time, this year saw a significant increase in participation from the business sector, reflecting an important trend: business is seeking to be more engaged in public initiatives and to take an active part in the reconstruction of Ukraine. This became possible thanks to the synergy of the MIM Business School and IMD, as well as the support of the Responsible Reconstruction Fund. 
The participants were greeted by Oleksii Vynogradov, Acting President of the MIM Business School: 
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"The goal of the Women Leadership Program was formulated as support for the growing role of women in leadership in Ukrainian business, in public service, and in local self-government bodies. We strive to give these changes a structured character, depth, and an international dimension. 
We have met you at a moment when leadership in Ukraine is of decisive importance. Now, when many men are serving in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and defending the country, it is women who take on responsibility for the development of business, communities, and more. This program exists to support women leaders and to give them a clear structure, depth of action, and international practices adapted to our realities. Today we have gathered within the walls of the MIM Business School to begin this journey. 
What makes this experience special for each of you? You are becoming part of a community where everyone gains invaluable experience working alongside fellow participants, examines real cases, and takes personal responsibility for the decisions made for the sake of their own development and the development of the country. So let's begin!" 
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The greetings were joined by Iryna Tykhomyrova, who launched the two previous cohorts and now Heads the International Advisory Board. She called on the participants to perceive the program as a deep educational experience with new opportunities and responsibilities and reminded them of the final stage in December — the defense of their own projects. 
Olena Kondratiuk, Deputy Chairwoman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, also offered her guidance to the participants: 
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"I congratulate the women leaders of the new intake of the Women Leadership Program, who, in conditions of absolute uncertainty, continue to create new opportunities, lead communities, and develop business. This course is not only about knowledge, but also about building connections, mutual support, and mentorship that will stay with you for life. May this program reveal your colossal potential and help strengthen the voice of Ukraine on the international stage." 
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Representatives of the Swiss side also took part in the event: Simon J. Evenett, Christine Batruch, and Joshua Clarke. They noted the importance of local leadership and spoke about the evolution of the course, emphasizing its purely practical, intensive character. The program is oriented toward the participants' real projects, coaching, a blended learning format, and work with interactive materials. 
Christine Batruch separately noted the uniqueness of the new intake and presented a special module dedicated to the principles of responsible reconstruction — with a focus on people, the environment, and the economy. 
This year's innovation was the creation of the Women Leadership Program Council, which includes graduates of previous years. They shared their own experience and advice for the participants of the third cohort. 
Notably, requests to participate in the program began arriving as early as the beginning of the year, which confirms its relevance and high demand among society and the women leaders of today. 
Ahead of the participants lies intensive study, growth, and new challenges. We wish them to make the most of the program's opportunities, to form clear goals, and to implement projects that will contribute to the reconstruction and development of Ukraine.

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MIM Launches Third Cohort of the Women Leadership Program

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MIM Business School has once again confirmed its status as the undisputed leader in national business education. According to the results of the prestigious international Best Masters Executive MBA 2026 ranking, the business school’s MBA program took first place in Ukraine and ranked among the top 10 programs in Europe, placing ninth. 
Despite the extreme challenges posed by the war, the business school has modernized its curriculum, placing a key emphasis on crisis management, recovery strategies, and business transformation in times of uncertainty. 
Oleksiy Vinogradov, Acting President of MIM Business School, stated:  
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"We are truly delighted and proud to receive such prestigious international recognition. For us, it carries a much deeper meaning. Today, Ukrainian business is fighting its own battle — for resilience, for jobs, and for the future of our economy. The fact that MIM holds its position in a global ranking in 2026 speaks to one thing: our entrepreneurs and senior executives are receiving world-class expertise here that helps them succeed in real life. We did not simply adapt to the crisis — we transformed our curriculum so that our graduates become architects of Ukraine's recovery. This is a shared achievement of our team, our faculty, and an extraordinary student community." 
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<a href="https://www.best-masters.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Best Masters Global Ranking 2026</a> by international agency Eduniversal is one of the most authoritative global lists, annually evaluating master's and MBA/EMBA programmes across more than 150 countries. It is maximally objective, assessing programmes against three critical criteria: reputation among leading employers, graduates' careers and financial outcomes, and student satisfaction. 
Eduniversal has consistently recognised MIM Business School as the flagship of Ukrainian business education. The school holds the 4 Palmes of Excellence — a distinction unique in Ukraine — which officially places MIM among the top 300 business schools in the world with the highest level of international influence. 
If you are considering quality MBA education, choose a school where global standards meet practice. Studying at MIM means world-class faculty, international recognition of your diploma, solving real business problems directly during study, and analysis of live company cases within a powerful professional network. The best registration conditions are available right now — take advantage of Early Bird Pricing while it lasts. 
Right now, we're offering the BEST REGISTRATION RATES! Don't miss out on our special EARLY BIRD PRICING offer. 
<a href="https://mim.kyiv.ua/programs/mba" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Learn more and submit your application.</a> 
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MIM's MBA Program Was Ranked Best in Ukraine in 2026 

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MIM Business School <a href="https://mim.kyiv.ua/programs_pre-mba">pre-MBA programme</a> students Tetiana Hrubeniuk and Karina Mashtalir have been nominated for the national "TOP 100 Women of Ukraine" award by the media project "Syla Vplyvu" (Power of Influence). The nomination recognizes leaders who are making a tangible difference in the country every day.
Joining Tetiana and Karina on the nominees list is their colleague Iryna Vashchuk-Disipio, President of the <a href="https://rsukraine.org.ua/">Revived Soldiers Ukraine</a> foundation. 
The "TOP 100 Women of Ukraine" award recognizes military personnel, volunteers, medical professionals, entrepreneurs, and heads of charitable organizations — women whose daily work has a measurable public impact.
For the Revived Soldiers Ukraine and NextStep Ukraine teams, this nomination carries particular significance, as it highlights the importance of their mission: providing treatment, prosthetics, and neurorehabilitation for wounded Ukrainian defenders, both in the United States and through a network of centers across Ukraine. The foundation has been providing systematic support to servicemembers in their return to active life for more than 11 years.
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"We simply do our work. And if our defenders are nominating us for recognition like this, it means we are doing it right," said Tetiana Hrubeniuk.
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MIM Business School takes pride in its students and in its partnership with <a href="https://mim.kyiv.ua/news/mim-ta-fond-revived-soldiers-ukraine-ob-iednuyut-zusillya-zadlya-reintegraciyi-zahisnikiv" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Revived Soldiers Ukraine</a>. 
Congratulations to Tetiana, Karina, and the entire team on this recognition, and gratitude for the vital work they carry out every day.
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Two MIM Students Nominated for the "TOP 100 Women of Ukraine" Award

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MIM Business School recently paid a visit to long-standing friends, partners, and alumni — the internet provider <a href="https://homenet.ua/cities/vyshneva-m-vyshneve/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Home.net</a>. Here is what that meeting revealed.
Members of the Home.net team have studied at MIM through both open programmes and, later, a large-scale corporate programme that grew into an ongoing partnership. When MIM representatives were invited to the company's office following a presentation at the Poltava Business Forum, Oleksii Vynogradov and Oleksandr Sudarkyn, Director of MBA and pre-MBA Leadership programmes, accepted without hesitation.
Oleksii Vynogradov shared his impressions:
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"Today, Home.net is a company that provides internet access with a focus not on major cities, but on small district centers and villages. The company has built its strategy around a mission: to help sustain quality of life in smaller communities by giving people connection to their loved ones, hope, and a sense of belonging to the wider world. The Poltava office is responsible for the entire Eastern region of Ukraine — managing and delivering internet services across every settlement in the East, the region most affected by the war and the most difficult to operate in. Our visit gave us a first-hand look at how the team functions and what drives it. We were struck by an extraordinarily warm welcome. We exchanged news, and colleagues shared how directly applicable the knowledge gained during their studies had proven in today's realities. They showed us the inner workings of the company: how business processes are structured and how people management is organized. Most significantly, the company shared its experience of the exceptionally hard winter of 2025–2026 — a period when icing, severe weather conditions, and blackouts left entire districts without power almost daily. Home.net responded with immediate flexibility, redeploying work crews from western and central Ukraine to the East. In abnormally low temperatures, people worked around the clock to restore connectivity — and with it, hope."
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For Ukrainians today, internet connectivity is as vital as electricity. During the darkest blackouts, the Home.net network was, for many, the only remaining access to the open world. The company had every legal and moral right to invoke force majeure and stand down. It chose otherwise — to restore connection as quickly as possible, regardless of circumstances.
Olena Vysotska, HR Director at HomeNet:
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"We did not choose the challenges that have fallen on our country. But we chose who we would be in the face of them. A crisis tests not only the strength of a network or the resilience of a business — it tests the maturity of people and systems. These are the moments that reveal whether a company can learn, adapt, and grow stronger. For HomeNet, these years have been not only a trial but a period of growth, in which every new challenge made us more professional, more united, and better prepared for the future." 
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War, blackouts, and the people who kept the connection alive. Oleh Bludov, Chief Operating Officer of Home.net and alumnus of MIM's corporate programme of 2024, describes how that character was forged and what decisions lie behind that resilience:
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"The hardest part was not the network damage. The hardest part was understanding that behind every outage were real people. When the large-scale strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure began, we watched internet access transform from an ordinary service into a genuine necessity. Through it, people worked, studied, received safety information, and stayed in contact with family members at the front and abroad. At that moment, we understood: we had no right to leave people without connection. Today, the Home.net network comprises more than 500 communication nodes across Ukraine. We had prepared in advance for potential blackouts: equipping the network with modern LiFePO₄ battery systems, installing generators at key nodes, and building a multi-level backup power system. As a result, all critical network nodes achieved autonomy of between 8 and 32 hours, with generators maintaining operations during extended outages. But no generator starts itself. No trunk line restores itself. Behind all of it were people. I remember nights when our engineers and installation teams were essentially living at the network nodes — welding optical fibre by torchlight, starting up equipment, checking batteries, and locating damage after successive strikes. I remember crews dispatched to sites immediately after large-scale power cuts to restore connectivity for thousands of subscribers. Alongside the energy war, we were also operating in regions directly affected by combat. More than 35% of the company's service territory came under active hostilities. Some 262 kilometers of cable lines were damaged, around 75 kilometers of network were lost, and nearly 200 kilometers of trunk infrastructure sustained damage. In Kherson Oblast, damage affected more than 35,000 households; in Mykolaiv Oblast, more than 25,000. After deoccupation, we were among the first to begin restoring the network and joined the first Resilience Hub the day after Kherson was liberated. What strikes me most are the stories of our own people. In Liubech, Chernihiv Oblast, residents were left without any connection to the outside world during the occupation. One of our colleagues found his own route into the village, delivered Starlink equipment, and restored connectivity for more than two thousand people. Moments like that remind us why we do this work. Because our work has never really been about the internet. It has been about the ability to hear a loved one's voice. About a child's remote lesson. About the message that says, 'I'm alive.' About the knowledge that even in the darkest times, you are not alone. If Home.net is called a reliable connection today, that is not the achievement of technology. It is the achievement of the people who every day did — and continue to do — everything possible to keep Ukraine connected."
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Stories and acts like these move the world and give all of us reason for hope. MIM Business School is proud to be connected to this story and to know people of such strength and conviction.
On behalf of the entire MIM community — thank you for your work, your courage, and your resilience.

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Home.net: Those Who Didn't Hide Behind Force Majeure

"What comes into your life is not coincidence — it is the level you have grown into." This is the principle that guides Andrii Komar, a student of MIM Business School's MBA programme 2026–2027.
On 30 May, at the tenth anniversary ceremony of the "TOP-10 CFO of Ukraine 2025" rankings, Andrii Komar placed among the top three chief financial officers in the country, finishing second in the Mid-Size Business category of the rankings organized by <a href="https://www.cfo-club.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CFO Club Ukraine</a>.
For more than five years, Andrii Komar has led the financial function of the BGS Rail group of companies — one of Ukraine's largest private owners of freight wagons, part of the international holding Avia Solutions Group. 2025 proved a serious test for the company: a sharp drop in revenue caused by falling wagon lease rates significantly increased the risk of meeting debt obligations to key creditors.
Through his professional leadership, Andrii achieved the following:
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<li>restructured the debt in a timely manner and reduced the pressure on cash flow to a manageable level;</li>
<li>implemented a system of continuous financial forecasting;</li>
<li>established regular updates to cash flow planning;</li>
<li>ensured a prompt response to liquidity risks by reviewing CAPEX and OPEX.</li>
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The company not only adapted to crisis conditions but identified new growth opportunities. Business development in Kazakhstan — a more favorable market — increased both revenue and EBITDA, while also creating an additional liquidity buffer to support the Ukrainian operations.
This achievement demonstrates that strategic thinking, crisis leadership, and a strong team make it possible not only to weather challenges, but to emerge from them stronger.
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MIM Business School congratulates Andrii Komar on this well-deserved recognition.

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Andrii Komar Ranks in the Top 3 CFOs of Ukraine According to CFO Club Ukraine

Effective June 1, 2026, MIM Business School is undergoing planned management changes. Iryna Tykhomyrova, who has served as the school’s president and public face for 19 years, will head the International Advisory Board.
Under Iryna Tykhomyrova’s leadership, MIM has become not just the country’s first business school, but a powerful regional and educational hub. Even in 2022, amid full-scale invasion, the school not only continued its operations but also implemented a series of impactful initiatives. Among them were the global intellectual dialogue <a href="https://mim.kyiv.ua/en/graduates/projects/reinforceua" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ReinforceUA</a> and the international forum <a href="https://mim.kyiv.ua/en/graduates/projects/facing_the_future" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facing The Future</a>, which brought together over 300 leading experts. The Reintegration Management Program was launched to train managers in de-occupied territories, along with the <a href="https://mim.kyiv.ua/en/graduates/projects/wlp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Women Leadership Program</a> – a program for future female leaders that has gained global recognition. This project has become a true social elevator, earning numerous international awards for its contribution to gender equality and the development of women’s entrepreneurship.
We thank Iryna Tykhomyrova for her inspiring leadership, resilience of the school in 2022, and her strategic vision. As Chair of the Advisory Board, she will continue to build the bridge between the academic world and the current needs of business.
The duties of MIM President will be assumed by Oleksii Vynogradov, who previously served as Vice President of the MIM Business School. Oleksiyiis a Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor in the Department of Business Administration, a recognized marketing expert, Director of Pre-MBA Programs, and author of numerous professional publications. His extensive experience with internships abroad and many years of managing large-scale projects will allow us to maintain a high level of momentum and implement innovations.
We continue to develop our system preparing new powerful programs and strategic solutions to help Ukrainian businesses grow effectively and sustainably.
  Stay tuned for updates!

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Leadership Changes at MIM Business School

Professional expertise

This week, Myroslava Kozachuk — Founder &amp; CEO of Franchise Group, creator of the "First Franchising School" and Franchise Camp projects, and one of Ukraine's leading franchise industry visionaries — appeared as guest star at MIM Business School.
This was Myroslava's third visit to MIM, but the format made it distinct from previous sessions. The meeting was held exclusively for Senior Executive MBA students in a closed setting, allowing participants to move beyond theory and put targeted questions to the expert about the specific challenges of their own businesses.
Two hours of intensive dialogue turned into an in-depth examination of real cases, mistakes, and breakthrough decisions. As an active consultant with dozens of successful brands in her portfolio, Myroslava broke franchising down to its fundamentals:
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;">Strategic choice: which franchise model is appropriate at different stages of a company's development.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;">Scaling: how master franchising works and how to enter new markets.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;">Resilience: the experience of developing franchise networks under wartime conditions — without embellishment, accounting for both risks and successes.</li>
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Participants came away not just with information, but with professional insights ready to apply directly to their management practice.
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"We don't need to rebuild the old — we need to build a NEW Ukraine. And business is one of the primary instruments of that transformation. I believe the time will come when Ukrainian franchises are purchased the world over," Myroslava Kozachuk has said on more than one occasion.
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Myroslava Kozachuk is one of the leading experts of <a href="https://mim.kyiv.ua/expert-hub" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MIM Expert Hub</a> — a platform where any manager can receive a personalized consultation and work through a business case with the involvement of top specialists. Areas covered include scaling and franchise development, strategic marketing and financial modelling, and legal support and change management.
Thank you to Myroslava for her candor, inspiration, and depth of expertise.

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"Brave 5.0": Training for Women Entrepreneurs from Communities Begins at MIM

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Applications Now Open for Women Leadership Program

The fifth wave of the "Brave" project has officially begun in Ukraine. The MIM Business School is proud of the opportunity to be a partner of the project and to teach those who are not afraid to realize their dreams and work on the reconstruction of Ukraine. Because this knowledge is not just theory but help for those who want to move forward. 
The program was opened by Oleksii Vynogradov, Vice President of the MIM Business School. Welcoming the participants of the new group, he emphasized the high level of competition — only 30 finalists out of more than five hundred applicants reached the training, which testifies to their exceptional resilience and potential. He called on the participants to make the most of these two months to systematize their experience and master practical tools that will allow them not only to develop their own business, but also to scale it effectively even in times of uncertainty. 
The fifth wave of the project brought together women entrepreneurs from three regions of Ukraine — those who develop businesses in rural areas despite the challenges of war and economic instability. 531 participants applied to take part — among them internally displaced persons, women veterans, mothers, wives of servicemen, and women who carry both family and business on their shoulders every day. 
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"For us, 'Brave' is about real change in the lives of people and communities. We see how women not only launch or develop businesses but also become points of support for local communities. And it is precisely such stories that shape a new quality of economy — responsible, resilient, and humane," notes Svitlana Mozgova, Director of Human Resources, Corporate Partnership and Communications at the Astarta-Kyiv agro-industrial holding. 
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The project has been implemented since 2022 with the support of Raiffeisen Bank in partnership with the <a href="https://astartaholding.com/">Astarta-Kyiv</a> agro-industrial holding and the <a href="https://povirusebe.org/">"Believe in Yourself" Charitable Foundation</a>. The MIM Business School serves as the program's permanent educational partner. 
The MIM Business School wishes the participants: Build your business, strengthen your community, and become part of the community! Develop yourself, support your community!

The fifth wave of the project brought together women entrepreneurs from three regions of Ukraine — those who develop businesses in rural areas despite the challenges of war and economic instability

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