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Education for the New Economy
Sustainable Business
Bainbridge Graduate Institute Changing Business for Good
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Purpose
Mission:
To prepare students from diverse
backgrounds to build enterprises that are
financially successful, socially responsible
and environmentally sustainable.
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Programs
MBA in Sustainable Business
• Hybrid format at Islandwood, Bainbridge Island
• Evening format in downtown Seattle
Designed to provide you
Certificates with a wide range of skills
• Sustainable Business and perspectives.
• Sustainable Entrepreneurship
& Intrapreneurship
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Curriculum
Core Business Functions
• Accounting, Finance, and the Triple-Bottom Line
• Economics: Neoclassical, Political, Ecological, and a study of Capitalism
• Research and Quantitative Methods
> • Marketing and Sales
• Strategy and Implementation
• Sustainable Operations
Business and Sustainability All courses are
→ • Foundations of Sustainable Business I: Principles
→ • Foundations of Sustainable Business II: Tools taught through the
→ • Foundations of Sustainable Business III: Implementation lens of sustainability
• Topics in Sustainable Business
Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship
> • Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship I & II
• Creativity and Right Livelihood
Leadership and Management
• Management: People and Teams → Certificate in Sustainable Business
• Management: Organizational Systems
• Management: Organizational Change > Certificate in Sustainable Entrepreneurship
• Leadership and Personal Development & Intrapreneurship
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Process
Hybrid Program Delivery
Combination of face-to-face residencies once per month on
campus and online coursework
• MBA in Sustainable Business
• Certificate Programs
Evening Program Delivery
Weekly face-to-face classes in the evening
• MBA in Sustainable Business
• Certificate in Sustainable Business
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Process, continued
• Co-creative Learning Community
• Action Learning
• Team Projects
• Industry Concentrations:
• Agriculture & Food Systems
• Building
• Community Economic Development
• Energy Solutions
• Outdoor Industry
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People
Faculty
Teaching Model used in most courses:
• Lead Faculty, PhD/JD/MBA, etc.
• Expert Practitioner from the field
• Teaching Assistants, graduates of BGI
• Guest Lecturers
Change Agents in Residence (CAIR)
Executives, entrepreneurs, activists, and authors spend time
with students, in and out of class time.
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People, continued
Students
• Degrees for Success:
Our degrees help you achieve your
goals. For Profit
• Powerful Professional Network:
Join a community that will help you
grow as an individual and as a leader.
• Knowledge: Non-Profit
You are able to learn how to use Government
business to build a more sustainable
future.
Alumni Entrepreneurs
• Our graduates represent a diverse
& well-positioned group of change
agents affecting business for good
in local to global arenas.
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What are alumni doing?
92% of graduates placed in or related field to sustainable business.
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Admission and Financial Aid
MBA Early Decision Applications due by January 4, 2010
Standard Admission:
• Evening MBA program Applications due by January 29, 2010
• Late applications accepted until March 5th
Spring term start
• Hybrid MBA program Applications due by May 17, 2010
• Late applications accepted until July 12th
Fall term start
Certificate Program applications accepted on a rolling basis until August 9
Financial Aid available for those who qualify.
Externally and most visible to the outside: -Programs: we have the integrated MBA and certificate programs you’ve read about, and perhaps if you continued reading, you read about our -Process: of establishing an intentional learning community, that is co-created by our diverse students, faculty and staff Closer to the core: our BGI students are, literally, a community of adult learners committed to changing the world. Students consult each other widely to leverage the value of their diverse experiences. The learning community feeds and shapes the academic experience and continues to provide a framework for lifelong learning among the alumni and extended BGI community. And at the center of it all is our purpose…
Lens, not an add on We push the envelope Leadership, and Entre/Intre… why, leadership to inspire, manage projects, build strategy to implement and create change Intre discussion
Hybrid: online plus face to face Evening: mostly face to face, some online… guest lectures and development opps, two nights a week + 1 night per month (LPD)
95% retention rate… example – students had an interest in a foreign exchange program, and for the first time this year Co-creation description (Sarah notes): it’s a learning environment, students learn from faculty, faculty learn from students. Co-creation: as we started out, we saw a need for diversity and now we have DSJ with faculty/staff involved, a scholarship fund. Ownership vs. responsibility (learning community) – helps drive it. Emphasis on Team Projects: learning circle (scrap that language), just careful on internal lingo. Font of BGI keeps changing (should be sans) TA’s are sometimes faculty too Elluminte might be used for guest lectures Opportunity to focus learning on a particular industry with guidance from faculty, external advisory board (IndCon) A unique part…. … if you can dream it, we can do it Incredibly close knit…. Ask how many know a student or former student… 95% retention rate… Why are the students happy? If you want to see anything to manifest change in school, you can, state it and do it. We don’t manufacture minted MBA’s, you are creatively produced Masters levels work is all about doing, hands on learning, team projects that bring about real change in businesses, and bring it into your workplace Collaborative vs. competitive, helps you Industry Concentrations are DISsimilar to a major, not electives, they are focuses on subjects you might work through, and they are…
C-teaching model, team taught… many perspectives, greater access to faculty, and the perspective component is the most important (academic plus a practicioner) …. Actual work plus academic underpinnings Guest lecturers CAiR… activists, authors, executives, entrepreneurs… join you in classes, bring more perspectives… VIEWBOOK has list of CAiRs Many come from for-profit, and non-profit and government employees. It’s interesting that an MBA program would do that – it really enriches the discussions. Sust. Is more than making decisions for short-term financial gain… it’s longer, collaborative, more systemic change that embraces many stageholders
92% are placed in and around sustainability-related areas… this is a tag cloud
