Curriculum
The goal of the Green Your MBA certificate program curriculum is far reaching: to enable participants to regenerate the world.
The program consists of five engaging, thematic learning modules and one applied project. Each participant immerses in the modules and in addition, targets and solves a compelling real-world sustainable-enterprise challenge via the applied project.
Course Elements:
- Critical Thinking for Business Redesign Module
- Systemic Thinking for Business Redesign Module
- Environmental Performance Leadership Module
- Social Impacts of Enterprises Module
- Thriving Regenerative Enterprise Module
- Sustainable Enterprise Challenge
Develop. Learn and implement strategies to distinguish between business challenges that are complicated (causes can be traced to the roots) and complex (causes impossible to trace in totality) business issues—and understand specific approaches for each. Immerse in systemic methodologies that enable visual mapping of issues, discover emergent new sustainability themes and build conceptual models that assess the feasibility of new ideas from a complete constellation of vantage points. Learn WindTunneling, TM a proprietary conceptual tool that expands business capacities.
Deepen. Develop strategies to answer the essential sustainable business question: “Is this idea feasible?” Explore conceptual tools indispensable to building a culture of innovative thought and action inside and outside your organization. Discover techniques that move the values and ideals of sustainability to the forefront of your organization while engaging stakeholders. Apply rigorous critical-thinking strategies to a continuum of business challenges, from resource limitations and climate change to regulatory uncertainty and marketplace complexity.
Immerse. Explore the ways in which today’s environmental and social issues are changing the economy, altering business models and transforming the role of business globally. Discover the emergent science that reveals the underpinnings of the new economy and how fluid economic change impacts the operations of business today and in the future. Customize and apply contemporary commerce models to the needs of particular businesses.
Realize. Every enterprise impacts the world. Learn, via methodology, how to analyze the impact an enterprise has across the spectrum—from employees and shareholders to targeted consumer types, suppliers, the local community and the world at large. Examine the “sea of change” globally and discover implications on micro (workplace) and macro (industry) levels. Immerse in examples of how micro-level choices lead to macro-level impacts.
Regenerate. New strategic tools offer the promise of more than sustainability. Examine the triple bottom line approach combining financial, social and environmental performance—and then learn how to achieve success at the next level, in regeneration. Understand metrics and performance indicators. Learn risk management and anticipatory design from a sustainability perspective as well as how to overcome barriers to transformation.
Transform. Participate in a real-world sustainable business challenge. Work with the renowned Green Your MBA faculty, who serve as project advisors, guiding participants from project ideation to solution in projects based in all types of organizations, from small start-ups to large international enterprises. Establish protocols, processes and designs that will improve financial, social and environmental performance. Do more than sustain an enterprise: regenerate it.
