While other graduate schools may offer stand-alone courses or concentrations in environmental management or corporate social responsibility, Presidio integrates a larger framework of sustainability into every course and across the entire program—including social innovation, integrated bottom-line accounting, sustainable marketing and ecological economics. This is the difference between incremental change and designing for systems thinking. Taking sustainability beyond classroom theory, our programs emphasize not only the transformative thinking about each discipline, but also practical tools and approaches to implement concepts within real-world contexts.

Presidio students learn professional competencies—economics, finance, governance, operations—required in every graduate program. What is different about Presidio is how students learn to think critically and apply sustainable management skills to create more effective solutions.

Presidio is producing a new kind of leader in every area—from business management to public policy, from social entrepreneurship to global governance—with the courage and competence to manage, influence, develop, teach, and create.