Programs
MBA in Sustainable Management
 
 

MBA Program Overview

Presidio prepares MBA students to be skilled managers who are competitive and relevant in any field. Every business professional is challenged in today's marketplace to lead and manage successful organizations while understanding complex and interdependent issues such as greenhouse-gas emissions reduction, transportation planning, green building and procurement, waste management, and energy and water conservation. Navigating these challenges requires applying a new lens to traditional management practices.

Our degree in business administration connects rigorous management theory and practice with social responsibility, ecological awareness, systems thinking, and leadership within an integrated framework of sustainable management. As a unifying concept, sustainability weaves the core elements of the program together in ways that help students make connections, promote innovation, and create transformative solutions in service of a more sustainable future. 

The most distinctive element of our MBA is the integrated curriculum designed around three fundamental and connected concepts that together define competence in sustainable management:

Sustainable Systems
Principles of systems thinking and sustainability ground the entire curriculum and are woven into every course. A whole systems orientation rests on coursework in systems thinking, sustainability literacy, ethics, and social justice. Students learn to apply these concepts to shape business strategy and practice.

Leadership
The transition to a sustainable future in business requires the capacity to engender positive change through varying spheres of influence from the self, to the team, to the organization, and ultimately across systems. With an emphasis on collaboration, engagement, and cross-sector cooperation; the coursework is designed to build competencies in personal efficacy, resilience, adaptability, relationship management, and organizational change.

Business Foundations
Foundational courses focus on building practical management proficiencies in economics, innovation, capital management and critical thinking.  The coursework integrates the fundamentals of business to design, to develop, and to manage sustainable businesses.

Program Format
The MBA is a 60-credit curriculum with 16 required courses. The program combines the effectiveness of face-to-face learning with the benefit of interactive distance-learning opportunities. Students have as much classroom time as any traditional MBA program. However, Presidio brings an additional level of learning through a robust online component that develops indispensable management skills and facilitates virtual collaboration among students.

The full-time program spans two years and the part-time option spans four years. Each semester, concentrated classroom instruction takes place over a four-day residency (part-time students attend classes for two days). These residencies occur Thursday through Sunday once a month.

 

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