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Sustainable Enterprise - Education

Christopher Laszlo, PhD
Leadership, Liberal Arts, and the Common Good
The Inauguration of President Rebecca Chopp
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Sustainable Enterprise is a core component of the Weatherhead experience—about half of Weatherhead’s MBA core courses now include components of sustainability.  The one-year, six-credit “Institute for Sustainable Value” is the flagship piece of the effort, and the school’s Executive Education offerings include the world’s premier courses on Appreciative Inquiry and Sustainable Value.

Meanwhile, Weatherhead’s Fowler Center for Sustainable Value customizes curriculum supplements for professors and also works with the school’s Net Impact chapter to develop a student experience that more holistically addresses sustainability—at home, at work, in values, in the classroom, through speaking engagements, and via extra-curricular experiences.

The MBA Institute for Sustainable Value

This one-year immersion course is dedicated to sustainability in practice.  Focusing on whole-systems approaches for Sustainable Value generation, the course offers in-the-field experience and classroom guidance with the world’s leading whole-systems practitioners.  Classes move beyond the triple bottom line and traditional approaches to corporate social responsibility and prepare students to be visionary leaders in any business climate.

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Executive Education in Sustainability

Weatherhead Executive Education helps prepares leaders to transform their organizations into sustainable enterprises. Much of our coursework focuses on tangible ways to orchestrate real and lasting change throughout your operations using Appreciative Inquiry, Weatherhead’s proven approach to achieving rapid, dramatic and holistic change, and Sustainable Value.

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Certificates in Sustainability

Executive Education certificates in Appreciative Inquiry and Sustainable Value offer the world's best education in whole-system change toward sustainability.  These programs help businesses bring measurable, long-term value to the bottom line, and show how new and surprising sources of revenue and savings can be generated by doing good.