Comments on: Why Traditional MBA Programs Still Don’t Get It

By: How to Prepare Yourself to Make a Difference in the World with a Green MBA

How to Prepare Yourself to Make a Difference in the World with a Green MBA — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:45:10 +0000

[...] Some MBA programs don’t teach students these topics because some schools believe a company’s only responsibility is to make profits for shareholders. Thus, companies don’t have any obligation to be concerned about environmental sustainability, except for situations in which it increases profits. These schools believe an emphasis on sustainability takes too much time away from the vital core topics of an MBA. Check out this article about why these traditional MBA programs are missing something. [...]

By: marina19

marina19 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:36:20 +0000

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By: marina19

marina19 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:36:20 +0000

By: Adelphi MBA

Adelphi MBA — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:23:32 +0000

Good article

By: The Dime

The Dime — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:10:48 +0000

It’s encouraging to see pressure being placed on traditional MBA programs to start thinking more broadly, more long-term, and beyond just profit motives. The MBA programs which began the sustainability movement, like the Green MBA in Sustainable Enterprise at Dominican University, have been fighting an uphill battle for nearly a decade. Thanks for this article and let’s keep up the pressure!

By: A.L.

A.L. — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:10:54 +0000

I was so excited when I saw this post I had to wait a full day to read it so that I could make sure to give it my full attention. I am a candidate in a top 100 Executive MBA Program and recently met with the Dean of the College to ask some similar questions. I thought with 3 decades in the field of Environmental Economics he’d have something substantial to offer. I was so disappointing in his resistance to the notion that businesses could help implement change. He seemed to have surrendered all of the power of business to their stockholders and their government.

By: Gayle

Gayle — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:35:56 +0000

I took a graduate MBA program at the time I was taking a graduate nursing program. I finished in the mid 70s with what is now referred to as “whole systems design. It was a fight believe me. My thesis was “change in organizations”, cross-cultural management. Considering that I was also taking Futures for Bus & Gov from Art Shostack I was really somewhere ahead of the pack. Of course this has helped in my work as a health advocate but still most in mgt and most with MBAs still don’t get the concepts that there is a biological correlation in business and that actually people do matter.