The Sustainable MBA: The Manager's Guide To Green Business

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The Sustainable MBA provides the knowledge and tools to help you green your job and organization, to turn sustainability talk into action for the benefit of your bottom line and society as a whole. Based on more than 100 interviews with experts in business, international organizations, NGOs and universities from around the world, this first of its kind guide brings together all the pieces of the business. The Sustainable MBA is organized like a business school course - allowing you easy access to the relevant information you need about sustainability and Accounting, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Finance, Marketing, Organizational Behaviour, Operations and Strategy.

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Giselle Weybrecht is an environmental consultant and a writer. She has been working on several consulting projects including Harvard/European Foundation for Entrepreneurial Research on social entrepreneurship, and Roland Berger Consultants on mainstreaming environmental issues into their best of European Business Awards. After being accepted to do a mid career Environmental Leadership Programme at BerkeleyUniversity in 2003, she decided to pursue an MBA at London Business School in the UK in order to better understand the role that the business sector has and can play in sustainable development which she completed in 2007. She is working with London Business School on curriculum reform and mainstreaming sustainable development into the school. She is also completing an introductory book on sustainable development to be published as a joint publication with UNESCO and Earthscan (negotiations in process) which will be an official publication of the UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2015. Table of Contents Dedication. Preface. Acknowledgments. PART 1: SETTING THE SCENE. Chapter 1: About this book. Chapter 2: What is sustainability? Chapter 3: What does this mean for business? Chapter 4: The sustainability journey. Chapter 5: Getting started. PART 2: THE CORE TOPICS. Chapter 6: Accounting. Chapter 7: Economics. Chapter 8: Entrepreneurship. Chapter 9: Ethics and corporate governance. Chapter 10: Finance. Chapter 11: Marketing. Chapter 12: Operations. Chapter 13: Organizational behaviour. Chapter 14: Strategy. PART 3: TOOLS. Chapter 15: Tools for monitoring, managing and improving performance. Chapter 16: Tools for greening offices and buildings. PART 4: WRAPPING IT ALL UP. Chapter 17: What can I do? Chapter 18: What will the future bring? Endnotes. Index.