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Green MBA
Why Choose Our Green MBA?
Keep business in the Green
Being a strong business leader used to mean turning profits. Today, an emerging awareness of the ecological impact of doing business is changing how individuals and organizations define success. Being green is as important as being in the black. Today’s enterprises need to operate in the present without compromising the future, looking beyond current resources to project what they will leave for generations to come.
To lead effectively in this environment requires a new set of skills and knowledge that exceeds the boundaries of the traditional MBA curriculum. At Antioch New England, understanding natural science is as important as statistics, and environmental issues are studied alongside economics.
The Master’s in Business Administration in Organizational and Environmental Sustainability—-the Green MBA—reflects Antioch New England’s progressive approach to education and a commitment to empowering leaders who effect positive change.
ANE’s interdisciplinary Green MBA recognizes that the problems businesses are facing today—and will confront in the future—cannot be resolved with yesterday’s methods. As resources disappear and ecological health wanes, professionals are conducting business with a conscience, in advance of mandatory rules.
What is a multiple bottom line?
Profit is only one measure of an organization’s success. The Green MBA recognizes that a company’s success is measured by a multiple bottom line—one that includes the company’s financial health as well as its quality of work life, ethical practice, social responsibility, and sustainable and ecologically conscious development. Business leaders and managers with this consciousness are guided by meaningful purpose and clear values, fostering work environments that encourage employees to grow and realize their potentials.
The world needs you now...to think about tomorrow.
In April 2005, U.S. News & World Report posed the question “Is the MBA obsolete?” It looked at traditional MBA programs that stress finance and quantitative analysis to the exclusion of leadership, critical thinking, and collaboration. It concluded that nowadays, a company’s profits must be measured by how those profits are made.
ANE’s Green MBA makes the logical transition to a forward-thinking curriculum that integrates sustainability throughout the program, in each class. ANE’s program features an interdisciplinary approach that better equips you to guide a business to a multiple bottom line. Natural science requirements accompany courses in leadership, finance, economics, and marketing. Working together with a cohort group, you will develop the knowledge and skills you need to lead and manage in complex and changing environments.
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