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MBA Concentrations

Values-driven leadership realizes its full potential when espoused values are embodied by all leaders and embraced throughout the organization. This leads to a sustainable business culture that optimizes financial performance, ethical practice, social contribution and environmental impact. To prepare students with the knowledge, skills and perspectives they need to lead and build sustainable organizations, the Benedictine University MBA Program offers a concentration in Sustainable Business & Leadership.

SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP:

Social responsibility and environmental concerns will shape the way we do business in the 21st century. This concentration provides students with an understanding of the broad impact of sustainability, strategic opportunities to make sustainability profitable, and integrate sustainability principles, thinking and actions throughout the organization. This concentration is earned by selecting 12 or more credits from the list below:

• MBA 672 Essentials of Sustainable Leadership (4)
• MBA 674 Leading Sustainable Organizations (4)
• MBA 675 Understanding the New Revolution in Sustainability (4)
• MBA 677 Sustainability as a Driver for Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Market Growth (4)

To learn more about enrolling in the Sustainable Business & Leadership MBA Concentration, please contact the Program Coordinator at (630) 829-6205.

About CVDL

The Center for Values-Driven Leadership offers research, education and outreach opportunities to help business leaders forge new paths to profitability. It is a gathering place where top executives, entrepreneurs and thought leaders come together to innovate at the forefront of values-driven business practice.

Upcoming CVDL Events

• Class: Leading Corporate Sustainability Part 2
  - February 10-12, 2012

Exemplars

• Boston Common Asset Management made a proposal to Aflac CEO, Dan Amos, to make himself the first U.S. CEO to have his pay voted on by shareholders. As part of the company's commitment to transparency, the decision was made to do it. See Aflac CEO's commitment.
• Nobel Peace Prize recipient and founder of Grameen Bank, Professor Muhammad Yunus, dreams of eradicating poverty as we know it and rethinking the relationship between the rich and the poor. Here he discusses The Social Business Model and how it is a radical departure from the modern profit-maximizing entity. See it here.
• How does an established company open itself up to allow for new innovation - especially in areas of sustainability? Stu Hart, author of Capitalism at the Crossroads and an expert in business sustainability, shares his thoughts on how successful companies can make space for dynamic innovation, leading to a healthier company AND planet. This video was recorded as part of the Center for Values-Driven Leadership's Senior Executive Roundtable series. For more on the CVDL and this series, visit www.cvdl.org. Sustainability and Innovation
• The Center for Values-Driven Leadership View Video

RECOMMENDED READING

• The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization
  ~ Peter M. Senge
• Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World
  ~ Paul Hawken