Bainbridge Graduate Institute Offers the First Sustainable Business Graduate School

Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI) is the first graduate school devoted to sustainable business. Although a number of other schools have developed programs with a focus on the environment, BGI offers an MBA education that fully integrates environmental and social responsibility into all of its courses. The BGI learning community approach combines face-to-face and distance learning methods to serve students who live and work in any location.BGI prepares leaders from diverse backgrounds to succeed in creating and managing environmentally and socially responsible (ESR) businesses and nonprofit ventures. BGI students are dedicated to bringing sustainability into the workplace, and in many cases are already doing so. Current students include the chairman of a public utility, present and former senior sustainability managers at Hewlett Packard and Shell, successful entrepreneurs, the founders of the world’s leading co-housing company, engineers, a documentary film-maker and a fascinating variety of other professionals, activists, and business people.Drawing on thought leaders from many communities, BGI’s faculty includes corporate leaders, environmental educators and activists, sustainable business academics, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, organizational consultants, change agents, scientists and technologists. The faculty includes many leaders in sustainability including Amory Lovins, co-author of Natural Capitalism, resource conservation guru and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute; […]

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