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Environmental Executives:Earn a Duke University Masters in Environmental Management From Your Desktop!

Even though it might advance them up the career ladder, environmental and business executives often find it too daunting to leave a job and family to go back to school for a master’s degree. Now, mid-career environmental professionals and business executives can participate in the Duke Environmental Leadership (DEL) Program largely while sitting at their home computers.The DEL Program includes a portfolio of courses driven by broad interdisciplinary and global themes,strategic approaches to environmental management, communication and effective leadership. Professionals can enroll in individual courses, 10-credit certificate programs or the 30-credit DEL-Master of Environmental Management degree program.The program combines the strengths of online and traditional learning models by presenting courses in written and electronic formats, case studies, and weeklong intensives on campus. This format allows professionals to add depth to their current skills and blend theory with practical experience, while maintaining a commitment to job and family. Using Dukes resources in environmental science, engineering, policy and business, students gain a unique interdisciplinary perspective of environmental issues through the curriculum. Core course topics include environmental science and management, resource economics, environmental policy and law, and program management for environmental professionals. Electives, focused around more specialized themes, are also available in such […]

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Bainbridge Graduate Institute Offers the First Sustainable Business Graduate School

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Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI) is the first graduate school devoted to sustainable business. Although a number of other schools have developed programs with a focus on the environment, BGI offers an MBA education that fully integrates environmental and social responsibility into all of its courses. The BGI learning community approach combines face-to-face and distance learning methods to serve students who live and work in any location.BGI prepares leaders from diverse backgrounds to succeed in creating and managing environmentally and socially responsible (ESR) businesses and nonprofit ventures. BGI students are dedicated to bringing sustainability into the workplace, and in many cases are already doing so. Current students include the chairman of a public utility, present and former senior sustainability managers at Hewlett Packard and Shell, successful entrepreneurs, the founders of the world’s leading co-housing company, engineers, a documentary film-maker and a fascinating variety of other professionals, activists, and business people.Drawing on thought leaders from many communities, BGI’s faculty includes corporate leaders, environmental educators and activists, sustainable business academics, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, organizational consultants, change agents, scientists and technologists. The faculty includes many leaders in sustainability including Amory Lovins, co-author of Natural Capitalism, resource conservation guru and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute; […]

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