In an effort to meet the growing demand for leaders in sustainable business, the Presidio School of Management has expanded its offerings to include an executive education certificate program targeted at senior executives. The school’s Sustainable Management Executive Certificate program will launch in January 2008 in partnership with the San Francisco-based Hanson Bridgett law firm. The Presidio School has offered an MBA in Sustainable Management since 2003, which integrates environmental concerns and social responsibility into every course. The new certificate program will last for 10 months, and is aimed at giving senior-level managers, executives and entrepreneurs a new look at traditional business disciplines taught from the perspective of sustainability. Among the goals of the program, the Presidio School of Management said its certificate program will give graduates the ability to:
- Define sustainability in the context of their company’s strategy and create a plan for achieving it
- Think beyond environmental performance with a whole systems approach to manufactured, financial, natural and human capital
- Make the case for sustainability in their business and define a competitive advantage in alignment with their organization’s values
- Successfully design a sustainability initiative, including plans for implementing within their organisation.
It will be great when the likes of Harvard, Penn, IMD and INSEAD offer such programmes and integrate sustainability in their core MBA offering.
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