Units: 48
Courses: 16
Tuition: $4,800 $3,600 (25% tuition discount if you enroll now)
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Master of Business Administration in Sustainability
“Thank you for all of your support and guidance thus far, I am so happy to have chosen this MBA program; I cannot tell you how much I have already learned and grown from this experience.”
Lael Giebel
There is a vast expansion of the market for environmental management expertise and skills. These skills are needed throughout the business world, including nonprofits and government agencies, the construction and building development industries, and the design professions.
Distance learning is completely self paced and self managed, so you can complete your studies and earn an MBA as quickly or slowly as your schedule permits. If you are a design professional requiring continuing education units, you can simultaneously earn your quota of CEU’s while earning academic units toward a Green MBA degree.
A Four-Track Curriculum
- Sustainability
- Business Skills
- Administrative Action
- Strategic Planning
Sustainability
GMBA 301
Green Capitalism
3 units
New, classic books that are changing the world of business administration.
Textbook: Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins and Greed to Green by David Gottfried or, in lieu of Greed to Green: The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift by Andres R. Edwards and David Orr
GMBA 302
Understanding Ecology & Climate Change
3 units
Scientific realism you need for long-term planning.
Textbook: Global Climate Change and U.S. Law by Michael B. Gerrard (note: If used for course GMBA 302, this book cannot be used for course GMBA 304) or An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore (note: either version “The planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it” or “The crisis if global warming”
GMBA 303
Ecological Design
3 units
The technology that solves the world’s worst environmental problems.
Textbook: The Green Building Revolution by Jerry Yudelson, or The ASHRAE GreenGuide: The Design, Construction, and Operation of Sustainable Buildings by ASHRAE Press
GMBA 304
Eco Politics, Law and Regulation
3 units
The revolution in new, green legislation and how to make it work for you. Textbooks: Global Climate Change and U.S. Law by Michael B. Gerrard (note: If used for course GMBA 304, this book cannot be used for course GMBA 302) or Harvard Business Review on Green Business Strategy by Harvard Business School Press
Business Skills
GMBA 305
Problem Solving
3 units
Creative, fast, effective problem analysis and solutions implementation. Textbook: Creative Business Solutions: Breakthrough Thinking: Brainstorming for Inspiration and Ideas
GMBA 306
Communication
3 units
Writing and speaking clearly and with authority. Textbooks: The Elements of Style Illustrated by William Strunk Jr., E.B. White and Maira Kalman and Plain English at Work: A Guide to Writing and Speaking by Edward P. Bailey
GMBA 307
Time Management
3 units
Proven systems of self-management and productivity. Textbook: Time Management: Increase Your Personal Productivity And Effectiveness by Harvard Busines Essentials and Harvard Business School Press
GMBA 308
Leadership
3 units
Maximizing your effectiveness and the effectiveness of those with whom you work. Textbook: Leadership: Theory and Practice by Peter G. Northouse
Administrative Action
GMBA 309
Business Planning
3 units
Strategy and tactics by leaders in business enterprise. Textbooks: The Definitive Business Plan: The Fast-Track to Intelligent Business Planning for Executives and Entrepreneurs by Richard Stutely or Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage by Daniel C. Esty and Andrew S. Winston
GMBA 310
Marketing
3 units
Using advertising, publicity, and public relations as a means of posit education. Textbook: Basic Economics 2nd Ed: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy, Revised and Expanded
GMBA 311
Economics
3 units
Understanding inflation, business cycles, and the economic forces that most affect all business and nonprofit enterprises. Textbook: Basic Economics 2nd Ed: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy, Revised and Expanded Edition by Thomas Sowell or Economics: A Self-Teaching Guide by Steve Slavin
GMBA 312
Financial Management
3 units
How quantification measures performance throughout the business world. Textbooks: Corporate Financial Management by Douglas R. Emery, John D. Finnerty and John D. Stowe or Schaum’s Easy Outline Bookkeeping and Accounting by Joel J. Lerner
Strategic Planning
GMBA 313
Rational Self Interest
3 units
The ethics that govern business. Textbook: Green Business: A Five-part Model for Creating an Environmentally Responsible Company by Amy K. Townsend
GMBA 314
Visionary Visualization
3 units
Why the most important changes are never what most people expect. Textbooks: A Brief History of the Future: How Visionary Thinkers Change the World and Tomorrow’s Trends are ‘Made’ and Marketed by Oona Strathern and Creating the Innovation Culture: Leveraging Visionaries, Dissenters & Other Useful Troublemakers by Frances Horibe
GMBA 315
The Aesthetic Imperative
3 units
Why design matters. Textbook: Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition by Kimberly Elam
GMBA 316
Thesis project
6 units
Your business plan. Textbooks: Choose from any two or more of the following texts as reference guides for your thesis. Green Marketing: Opportunities for Innovation by Jacquelyn A. Ottman, Visionary Business: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Success by Marc Allen, Planning and Design Strategies for Sustainability and Profit: Pragmatic sustainable design on building and urban scales by Adrian Pitts, Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate by Rocky Mountain Institute, Alex Wilson, Jenifer L. Uncapher, and Lisa McManigal
