Green MBA Programs

The SF Bay Guardian has an article on three new MBA programs who collectively have less than 300 students:

"It's part of our philosophy that you can't separate the environmental, social, and economic impacts of a company," Stayton says. Applied in all aspects of the program, this concept, called the triple bottom line, sets the alternative business school apart from the likes of Berkeley's Haas School and other top-rated MBAs. The triple bottom line appeals to students with strong social values who still believe corporations can be used to advance progressive causes. Not surprisingly, most Green MBA students say they had not been planning to apply to traditional business schools before they discovered the Green MBA.

It will be interesting to track what the Alumni of these programs end up doing. If they are successful in starting new companies who care about the triple bottom line, the Top MBA programs will probably start incorporating these ideas. We consumers can play a role in getting these new (triple bottom line) companies off the ground.