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World’s Best Green MBA Programs

by Richard Matthews
August 31, 2011
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In an article titled The Top 5 Green MBA Programs in America (Probably the World), Karin Kloosterman suggests that despite a slow economy there are opportunities for those with who pursue sustainability oriented degrees. She quotes a Bloomberg Businessweek article about the surge of green MBA programs, “sustainability represents one of the few potential bright spots in an otherwise dismal recruiting environment.”

Here are Kloosterman’s top green MBAs:

1. Presidio Graduate School

Offering a dual MBA and MPA in Sustainable Management, the Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco has built a curriculum based around three central concepts: sustainable systems, leadership, and business foundations. John Lehnert, a consultant for Expansion Media who began an MBA program at Presidio earlier this year, gave me his firsthand account of the green MBA degree and curriculum.

“The great reward of this program – with the mindshare of systems thinking – is the regularity with which my old assumptions are disrupted, as I learn how much fundamental change is needed to get the planet healthy again… Does that all sound squishy for b-school? Maybe at first glance, but it’s what will work for companies in it for the long haul: looking as systems for impacts and influences, working with stakeholders and not just shareholders, and managing products and services even after they leave the factory or office. It’s the only way we’ll have the future we want. I’m loving the journey to get there.”You can steal a partial list of John’s green MBA reading list here.

2. Stanford University

A university as renowned as Stanford has a strong reputation in many fields, and so it is no surprise to see that it is offering a strong MBA program. Its Graduate School of Business now offers a twist, though, in the form of a Business Strategies for Environmental Sustainability program. The program covers a range of issues related to sustainable business, and “explore[s] what it means to turn sustainable business practices into competitive advantage.”

3. The University of Michigan

The Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan is attempting to be green both within its core curriculum and the very architectural structure in which classes take place. It considers itself one of the world leaders in research and academic programming relating to sustainable enterprise, and uses its building as a demonstration of their commitment to the field.

The Ross building incorporates energy efficient and environmentally responsible features, such as energy efficient lighting, occupation sensors, skylights, three green roofs to insulate the building, and water saving mechanisms.

4. Bainbridge Graduate Institute

With a motto like “Changing Business for Good”, you know that the Bainbridge Graduate Institute in Seattle means business. (Check out the video clip here to get a feeling for the school and the pro Green business, that is. The institute has taken a different approach, not merely “greenifying” a conventional MBA program, but constructing a specific MBA in Sustainable Business. The goal of the program is to “prepare graduates to create and manage successful, dynamic enterprises that build a better world.”

5. Yale University School of Management

Located on the east coast (unlike many of the green MBA programs in California), the somewhat conventional business school at Yale has been infusing its MBA program with a more sustainable agenda. It has incorporated partnerships between the Yale Center for Business and the Environment and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, hoping to create opportunities for greater strides in both fields. The program hopes to teach students to view business in a broader context – one that includes, among other things, the environment.

© 2011, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.

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