The management and staff of the MBA Program strive for future achievements and will make every effort to use the most progressive technologies and forms of education. At present a new BBA program has been established, as well as a project for distance learning, and an EMBA Program is being worked on. For the implementation of large projects a special committee, the MBA Advisory Board, has been established, and is functioning successfully. The Board includes representatives of largest local and foreign companies, and institutions:

•  Misir Mardanov, Minister of Education

•  Garayev Siyavush, Rector of Azerbaijan State Oil Academy

•  Fenwick Huss , the associate dean of the J.Mack Robinson College of Business

•  Fazlollahi Bijan, MBA Project Director, Georgia State University

•  Alizadeh Ilyas, Manager of Foreign Relations Department, SOCAR, Offshore Oil and Gas Production Association

•  James Seward, Public Affairs Officer of US Embassy in Azerbaijan

•  Judy Quick, Georgia State University

•  Michael Lally, Commercial Attache of US Embassy

•  Gundersen George, Country Manager of Statoil Caspian Region

•  Scotton Graham, Vice President of BP Group

•  Yakovenko Igor, President of Azerbaijan Electronics Joint-Stock Venture

•  Yusifzadeh Khoshbakht, Vice President of SOCAR

•  David Stone, Financial manager of Garadagh sement plant

•  Robert Lambert, General Manager of CONOCO

•  Jahangir Gasimov, Heard the Program of National Coordination of technical Support of European Union

•  Farda Asadov, President of Coroc

•  Mahir Kazimov, Representative of Observation Center European Union Tempus-Tasis Program in Azerbaijan (Tempus-Tasis)

The overarching purpose of the Board is to generate closer relationships between the MBA Program and the business community in Azerbaijan.

The objectives of the Board are :

•  Generate closer relationships between the MBA Program and the business community;

•  Use the resources at the MBA Program to support the business community;

•  Generate resources to enhance and support the research activities of the MBA Program;

•  Advise and counsel the Program to meet the needs and challenges of the Azeri market economy in transition.

Now the faculty and staff of the MBA Program are implementing the new projects for expanding activities of the Program .