ABSTRACT
AS TIME WENT ON, EFFORTS TO IMPLEMENT systemic change in the Russian business environment became more and more complex. Government change agents defined reform not exclusively as legal, financial, and organizational transformation but extended the term to include the reform of people, specifically the entrepreneur and the manager. As is the case in many evolving systems, the vehicle for bringing about this human reformation is education, and as business was perceived to be one of the major engines in Russian reform, management education was seen as the most positive instrument for developing the new structure. In the drive for a complete overhaul of the business environment, effective training of managers and those who would train managers was imperative (Chambers, 1996).
