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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 concentrations in sustainable leadership development and sustainable business.

SUSTAINABLE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT:

Few managers emerge from business schools prepared to integrate broader societal change into business opportunities. This concentration offers students the conceptual frameworks and insight necessary to develop into effective leaders who can lead organizations in ways that restore and enhance all forms of capital - human, natural and financial. It focuses on ethics, culture, and values; team learning and leadership; strategic management; imagination and creativity; emotional intelligence; and systems thinking. There is an emphasis on individual development throughout the coursework. This concentration is earned by selecting 12 or more credits from the list below:

MBA 672 Essentials of Sustainable Leadership (4)
MBA 673 Developing Sustainable Leaders (4)
MBA 674 Leading Sustainable Organizations (4)

SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS:

Corporate sustainability - the pursuit of economic prosperity, environmental stewardship, and social impact - is a driver of strategy, innovation, and profitability in a growing number of the world’s leading corporations. Benedictine University's MBA Concentration in Sustainable Business prepares students to build companies at the leading edge of the new sustainability revolution. This concentration is earned by selecting 12 or more credits from the list below:

MBA 675 Understanding the New Revolution in Sustainability (4)
MBA 678 Building the Sustainable Enterprise (4)
MBA 677 Sustainability as a Driver for Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Market Growth (4)

To learn more about enrolling in Sustainable Leadership Development and Sustainable Business MBA Concentrations, please contact Theresa Smallwood at (630) 829-6205 or via email at tsmallwood@ben.edu.

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

New Paths to Profitability: Achieving Superior Performance through Values-Driven Leadership
- September 16-16, 2010

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