MBA Sustainable Enterprise Concentration

Overview

Sustainable enterprise is a way of doing business that makes profits through means that reduce harm to society and the environment. It turns challenges into business opportunities that serve a triple bottom line of profits, society and the environment. The result is often unique market solutions that leapfrog the competition or help firms to enter new markets with products better suited to long term growth.

This concentration applies across functions and industries. It complements other career concentrations taken at the same time. Students taking it will learn how to craft strategies that help companies pursue a triple bottom line, a skill that more and more companies say they seek.

Students may take courses outside the business school in areas such as:

• public policy,
• international studies,
• social work,
• city and regional planning,
• and environmental studies.

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Concentration Requirements

Required Course

Additional Sustainable Enterprise Electives
(4.5 credits needed)

Students may also satisfy an elective credit by undertaking an approved sustainability-focused STAR Project or independent study project. (For more information on Independent Studies please see the MBA Policy Manual.)

Who's Teaching

Peter J. Brews
Larry Chavis
Nicholas M. Didow, Jr.
Michael Jacobs
Jim Johnson
Andrew Jones
Lisa Jones Christensen
John Kasarda
Ellen Peirce
Mabel Miguel
Carol Seagle
Al Segars

Related Links

• See what's happening in the Net Impact Club
• Learn about BASE (the UNC Business Accelerator for Sustainable Entrepreneurship)
• MBA CSE Consulting opportunities
• Career Development support from the Kenan Institute
• View our Case Competition results
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