Khabarovsk Institute of National Economy(KINE)
later the Khabarovsk State Academy of Economics and Law (KSAEL)
and
Portland State University (PSU) School of Business
Relationship
1988-2018
In March 1989, Piotr Kanevsky, Rector of the Khabarovsk Institute of National Economy, KINE, (later the Khabarovsk State Academy of Economics and Law, KSAEL) came to Portland State University.(PSU) to discuss PSU assistance in business education at KINE.
The result was the signing of agreement between PSU and KINE for the exchange of faculty and students and for eventual delivery of business education programs at KINE in Khabarovsk.
Portland State University Executive MBA
. Program–inKhabarovsk
Fall 1989 saw inauguration of the Soviet American School of Business Administration and the start of the first ever Executive MBA Program in the then Soviet Union, a joint project of Portland State University School of Business and the Khabarovsk Institute of National Economy. The executives enrolled in the program came from Khabarovsk, Amur, Primoskii, and Sakhalin.
PSU School of Business faculty would teach each course intensively in a week-long session, but there were always time for relaxation, as in the charabun _ along the Amur River shown below with KINE/KSAEL faculty colleagues.
KINE/KSAELFacultyTeachingintheSchoolof Business at Portland StateUniversity
From 1989-1993,junior faculty from KINE/KSAEL came to come to PSU for additional learning and to teach a course on doing business in the Russian Far East jointly with Professor Earl Molander.
Pictured below are Vadim Danilov, the first KINE junior faculty member to come to teach at PSU and Oleg Buntov, who eventually became the co director with PSU Professor Earl Molander of the Soviet American School of Business Administration in Khabarovsk.
Khabarovsk for Recent KSAELGraduates
Fall 1991 saw inauguration of the first ever MBA Program in Russia for younger students, a joint project of Portland State University (PSU) and the Khabarovsk State Academy of Economics and Law (KSAEL). With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Soviet American School of Business Administration (SASBA) changed its name to the Russian American School of Business Administration (RASBA). Shown below are PSU President Daniel Bemstine and Professor Earl Molander awarding the MBA program diploma certificate to a graduate in 1993.
Continuing PSU and KSAEL Cooperation
Shown in the photo below are the individuals who presided over the MBA program graduation ceremony in June 1994: KSAEL Rector Vladimir Alekseyevich Likhobabin, Tatiana Malevichko, head of KSAEL International Relations, PSU Professor Earl Molander, PSU Presdient Dan Bemstine, and RASBA Director Oleg Buntov.
