ABSTRACT
“Postmodern” is a metaphor for innovative, personal, and unique solutions to seemingly intractable problems for changing a society. The University of Pittsburgh’s Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business has been a major partner in setting up and running these two private business schools in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The University’s involvement spans several activities including management oversight, management education program initiation, fund raising and providing faculty and materials to support the educational programs. Until 1987, the socialist countries in the world, where the Communist Party was in power for at least several years, accounted for over 34% of the world’s population and over 30% of the land mass. Nineteen eighty-nine was the most significant year in the downfall of the Communist Party and the reform movement toward market economies. Many Western educators have spent the last few years getting to know their CEE counterparts and watching their responses to the training and education of managers, students, faculty&government officials. .
