Lviv Institute of Management

Developing Business Management Capacities for Private Sector Development in L’viv, Ukraine

• April 2003 Ukraine Final Report
• October 2004 Group 5 LIM MBA Interns
• February 2003 Group 4 LIM MBA Interns
• July 2002 Group 3 LIM MBA Interns
• February 2002 Group 2 LIM MBA Interns
• January 2002 Group 1 LIM Business Exchange
• May 2001 ALO News Briefs

Overview of the TSU-LU-LIM Partnership

The partnership between the Lviv Institute of Management (LIM) and Tennessee State University (TSU), together with Lincoln University (LU) of Missouri, has as its goal the development of management capabilities for private sector development. This goal is associated with two objectives, both of which have contributed to USAID Ukraine's strategic objective to help create a broad-based market economy by promoting accelerated growth of private enterprise.

The partnership contributes to business skill development on two levels: helping LIM better serve the private sector through its academic programs and directly reaching Ukrainian entrepreneurs, helping them build managerial capabilities and expand their markets.

Faculty Exchanges

• Enhancing management-training capabilities in each of our institutions. This is being achieved through exchanges of faculty members among the three institutions.
• The first faculty exchange, in November 2000, consisted of two TSU College of Business faculty members going to L'viv.
• Since that time there have been a total of 23 faculty and staff exchanges: seven from TSU and five from Lincoln University to Ukraine, and 11 from L’viv Institute of Management to the U.S.
• Exchanges of U.S. faculty to Ukraine have generally consisted of offering intensive short courses in marketing and management. Exchanges of Ukrainian faculty to the U.S. have involved observation of business school management and collaborative research.

Business Exchanges

• Promoting private sector relations between firms in Western Ukraine and Middle Tennessee and Central Missouri. To this end, we have facilitated visits of Ukrainian business owners and managers to the U.S.
• Two groups consisting of two and five Ukrainian executives have spent a total of two weeks in Missouri and Tennessee where they have visited five to six businesses in each state.
• They have visited the same commercial or industrial sectors in which they work, including printing, tourism, cheese production and distribution, as well as manufacturing of other food products.
• In several instances they have expressed a keen interest in purchasing used U.S. machinery and equipment, which could eventually contribute to U.S.
  exports to Eastern Europe.