Dominican University of California Takes Green MBA Mainstream.SAN RAFAEL San Rafael (săn rəfĕl`), residential city (1990 pop. 48,404), seat of Marin co., W Calif., a suburb of San Francisco on the northern shore of San Francisco Bay; inc. 1913. , Calif. -- Dominican University of California
Dominican University of California is an independent university of Catholic heritage located 12 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County, California. has acquired the Green MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration program and trademark currently offered at New College of California This article is about New College of California. For College of California, see College of California. . The Green MBA was the region's first graduate business program focused on corporate social responsibility, environmental sustainability, and social justice within the business context. The move to Dominican allows the MBA program to grow and reach a more mainstream student body. The Green MBA co-founder and Executive Director John Stayton will move with the program to Dominican. The move is a homecoming of sorts for Stayton, who earned an MBA in International Business from Dominican in 1995. Stayton will retain his title as Green MBA program director. Stayton launched the program at New College as an MA program in 2000 and as an MBA in 2002. The Green MBA provides a cohesive third offering to Dominican's existing graduate business programs at a time when demand is growing for a workforce with an expertise in sustainability, said Dr. Christopher Dr. John R. Christopher, known popularly as "Dr. Christopher" was one of very few nationally prominent doctors of herbal medicine of the middle third of the 20th century, a "dark ages" of herbalism and was responsible for the herbal renaissance of the 1960s. Leeds, Director of Dominican's Graduate Business Programs. Dominican also offers an MBA in Strategic Leadership and an MBA in Global Strategic Management in its School of Business and Leadership. "The Green MBA program is an excellent fit for Dominican, both in terms of our location and our existing MBA programs," said Dr. Leeds. "The North Bay is home to many businesses which are leading innovation in sustainable business A business is sustainable if it has adapted its practices for the use of renewable resources and holds itself accountable for the environmental and human rights impacts of its activities. practices. In addition, major corporations are beginning to use sustainability as integral to their strategic position globally." The Green MBA is a four-semester program with classes held two weekends per month, Friday through Sunday. The curriculum consists of three major components: business fundamentals business fundamentals The general background within which an economy operates including earnings, sales, wage rates, taxes, and inflation. Improving business fundamentals are generally viewed as bullish for stocks, although stock prices at any given point , sustainability, and leadership. Students work on solutions to promote financial viability, ecological sustainability, and social justice. Courses include Eco-Commerce Models, Managerial and Environmental Accounting, Diffusion of Innovation, Green and Social Marketing, and Ecological Economics. About 45 students currently enrolled in the New College program will begin classes at Dominican in the fall. Spring 2008 enrollment is projected to reach 65 students. Two full-time faculty from the New College program, including the director of the Green MBA, will join Dominican's faculty. Stayton plans on bringing the 10 adjuncts who currently teach in the Green MBA program to Dominican. |
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