MBA CONCENTRATION
Sustainable Development
THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONCENTRATION helps students develop an understanding of the sustainability of project goals beyond financial and organizational issues, and provides a foundation in the concepts and methods of sustainable development.
The concentration helps students gain an understanding of the current state of global development and engages students in critical thinking about reducing poverty, hunger and human inequality, and in conserving the environment. Sustainable Development concentrators will study a rights-based approach to social change and have the opportunity to take courses in project planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
The concentration is suited to early- to midcareer managers of domestic and international organizations working on poverty alleviation, community development, health care, women-in-development, biodiversity, conservation, disaster mitigation, small enterprise creation and advocacy.
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Students in the Sustainable Development concentration take the full spectrum of MBA core courses (52 credits) and can choose from all available management and policy electives (4 credits). In addition, students take the following specialized courses (6 credits):
- HS 271a, Poverty, Inequality & Development (4 credits)
- HS 283f, Gender and Development (2 credits)
and select additional courses from the following list in consultation with a faculty advisor (4 credits):
- HS 259f, Topics in Sustainable Development
- HS 262f, Culture, Power and Development
- HS 263f, Applied Geographic Information Systems
- HS 264b, Natural Resource Management and Coexistence
- HS 264f, Principles of Ecology for Development Planners
- HS 265f, Ecology and Development: Science and Policy
- HS 266f, Economic Concepts for Development Practitioners
- HS 268f, Principles of Law and Development
- HS 269f, Food Security and Nutrition
- HS 273b, Applied Ecology in Sustainable Development
- HS 276f, World Health
- HS 277f, Planning and Implementation: A Primer
- HS 278f, Monitoring and Evaluation
- HS 279a, Planning and Implementation: Concepts and Methods
- HS 280f, Micro-Enterprise Development and Finance
- HS 281f, The Learning Organization: Research and Advocacy
- HS 282f, Environmental Impact Assessment
- HS 284f, Gender Analysis in Development Planning
- HS 286f, Civil Society and Non-Governmental Organizations
- And more.
The Sustainable Development concentration also requires students to successfully complete a Team Consulting Project (TCP) during which a team of MBA students consults on a significant management problem at a mission driven organization or government agency.