MBAs Increasingly Focusing on Green Issues

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  Hazarika07/24/08 Report as spam
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  Green issues in Management courses

  Well I am happy that people are now talking about it. In the Assam Institute of Management, we started the Two Your Post Graduate Management Programme in 1994. from the beginning we have been teaching a compulsory paper called "Resource, Environment and Energy Management", in which we deal with issues that have become fashionable only recently. from the beginning we felt that a future manager must be conscious about the environmental implications of managerial decision making. Also, we felt that management students should be conscious about energy usage, efficiency, economics and We also felt that environment, energy and natural resources are intractably linked with each other. IT gives me a great thrill that 15 years later, others are following our trail.

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  rajjoshi07/24/08 Report as spam
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  MBAs Increasingly Focusing on Green Issues

  Hazarika,
  Good to see your comment on the BNET post. I often think, what is the cost of development we are paying? What can be the ways and means for a sustainable developemnt, where man and nature coexist optimally.
  
  Raj

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  heiddy.peralta@...07/25/08 Report as spam
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  RE: MBAs Increasingly Focusing on Green Issues

  I think it is a fantastic idea to start earlier in our younters and future leaders to have the right mindset on how to be green.

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  jlichtenwaldt07/25/08 Report as spam
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  RE: MBAs Increasingly Focusing on Green Issues

  I'm surprised that the author didn't reach out to the Bainbridge Graduate Institute (full disclosure: I'm currently enrolled in their MBA program).
  
  BGI was the first fully integrated Sustainable MBA program with all classes, including Accounting, Finance and Economics, delivered through the filter of Sustainability. BGI has won many awards including being named one of the top innovative schools in the world by BusinessWeek for its focus on creating change.
  
  On the other hand, I'm happy to see other schools embrace the concepts of sustainability and recognizing that business cannot continue "as usual".

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  GreenCPA07/25/08 Report as spam
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  Bainbridge is the leader

  I have an MBA in Sustainable Business from BGI and must say that they take sustainability to a whole other level. Besides their own core faculty, BGI recruits the leading professors from these other schools. Many of these schools visit BGI to find out what to do.
  
  Sustainability will be the key business driver for the foreseeable future. Firms who embrace it as a strategic driver will find themselves at a competitive advantage. Those who don't will suffer.

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  waneng07/29/08 Report as spam
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  green issues

  it is good thing to be able to see more people think of green issues, i remember when i was small, surrounding me were trees, banana trees, coconut trees, wild flowers, even a lot of hibiscus growing outaide, now where is our national flowers, you hardly see them anymore,
  it is a good grief!

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  alphagrl@...07/29/08 Report as spam
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  RE: MBAs Increasingly Focusing on Green Issues

  You seem to have overlooked one of the first and foremost truly green MBA programs: The GreenMBA offered at Dominican University in San Rafael.
  
  http://www.greenMBA.com
  
  Alana