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Presidio is a thriving community of students, graduates and faculty who are committed to solving the world's environmental and social problems. As a pioneer in integrating sustainability into every course, we see business as the most powerful vehicle for change. Real-world experience is at the core of our MBA in Sustainable Management program. Students begin working in the field of sustainable management in their second semester through our partnership with dozens of top organizations. Our Innovative ApproachThe Presidio MBA combines the vibrancy of face-to-face learning with the convenience of distance learning. Each semester, students gather for four days a month at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, where they get not just intensive instruction but the chance to share ideas and build close connections with classmates. See Academic Calendar for the class schedule. We invite prospective students to visit our classes. Outside the classroom, students and faculty connect through online discussions, conference calls, team assignments and projects with organizations such as Williams-Sonoma, Wal-mart and the EPA. Our faculty include leading academics and business practitioners in sustainability who go beyond teaching the material to helping students develop and test their ideas as well as act upon their "calling" in business. What is a Sustainable MBA?Presidio defines Sustainable Management as the ability to direct the course of a company, community or country in ways that restore and enhance all forms of capital — human, natural and financial — to generate stakeholder value and contribute to the well-being of current and future generations. The program’s 16 collaboratively designed courses are divided into four strands that, together, make up the concentration in sustainable management. The first is people. This strand focuses on ethics, culture, and values; team learning and leadership; strategic management; imagination and creativity; emotional intelligence; and systems thinking. The second strand of numbers considers financial capital and how it is governed. Accounting, finance, operations and capital markets inform these areas. The third strand, markets, examines the function of the marketplace in commerce and organizational life and includes the business disciplines of managerial marketing and economics as well as ecological economics. The fourth strand is sustainability, which brings the principles of sustainable management to business education and explores the 4-billion-year store of natural capital upon which economic prosperity depends. This strand includes the study of sustainable products and services as well as implementing sustainable business practices. Learn more about our program: | | » Program Overview
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