Programs

Master of Business Acceleration

A practical MBA built into an accelerator: you do not just study, you grow concrete metrics of your business under the guidance of trackers. The programme runs for 18 months, three days a month on campus plus online tracking between sessions.

Curriculum

What you will study

4 modules — from strategy and finance to people, operations and growth.

01
1December 2026 — May 2027

Leadership and change management

Reshape yourself as the leader of a growing company.

  • Core CEO tools
  • Building management competencies
  • Leadership and handling resistance
  • Effective management decisions
02
2September — December 2027

Scaling up

Assemble a growth strategy and systematic processes.

  • Strategic and financial management
  • Designing business processes
  • Market and competitor analysis
  • Crisis management
03
3January — June 2028

Sustainable growth

Lock in growth with data, AI and efficiency.

  • Operations management
  • Data-driven thinking and AI
  • Strategic marketing
  • Cost and logistics management
04
4September — December 2028

Entering new markets

Prepare and deliver your company’s move abroad.

  • International business management
  • Cross-cultural management
  • Foreign trade operations
  • Risk management in new markets

About the programme

Master of Business Acceleration is for entrepreneurs who have already passed the survival stage and want to scale deliberately. Theory is not an end in itself here: you finish each module with a concrete hypothesis and a plan to test it, and a tracker helps you carry it through to a result.

Format

Three days a month on the RUDN campus, with online tracking and work on your own goals between sessions. You move along the roadmap of your business, not along an abstract syllabus.

Faculty & experts

Natalia Starostina

Natalia Starostina

Lead programme tracker

Трекинг

Co-founder of Hop.Agency, managing partner of scouting, acceleration and international market-entry programmes at the UDT/X venture builder, and co-owner of the Venture Games investor club.

Leonid Larshin

Leonid Larshin

Executive tracker

Трекинг

Tracker of the Year 2020 in the “Tracking tools in management” category.

Oleg Akulov

Oleg Akulov

Lead tracker and expert

Акселерация · e-commerce

An expert in the IIDF, FintechLab, Start Hub and FPSP accelerators. 10 years in e-commerce.

Sergey Vasiliev

Sergey Vasiliev

Venture partner

Венчурные инвестиции

Venture partner at the Yellow Rockets and Friendly VC funds and an associate partner at O2Consulting for venture investment and corporate innovation.

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