Sustainable Management: Dual MBA and MPA

Program Outcomes

Students will be able to:

• Apply whole systems thinking to reorient strategies toward sustainable solutions.
• Integrate sustainability principles, frameworks and tools to business activities, strategies and models.
• Model highly ethical behavior and social justice orientation to affect sustainability across a broad spectrum of stakeholders.
• Adjust to changing situations and obstacles and promote productivity and sustainability through a variety of contexts, including relationships, teams and organizations.
• Encourage and influence relationships that promote sustainability across multiple stakeholders and roles within the global, social, political, ethical and cultural context of business.
• Identify levers of cultural and structural change in organizations in support of sustainability.
• Analyze market behavior and interpret the allocation of resources, while recognizing the limitations of existing economic models.
• Integrate sustainability principles into the design, commercialization, marketing and production of innovative products and services.
• Interpret the financial conditions of an enterprise and evaluate the use of financial capital to optimize value for all stakeholders, taking into account ethics and other forms of capital, specifically social and natural capital.
• Conceptualize, apply, analyze, synthesize and/or evaluate the nature of information and knowledge through observation, experience, reflections, reasoning and communication, in ways that guide belief and action.
• Understand the interdependence of social, economic, and ecological problems and the interdependence of business, government and civil society, and the possibility for integrated solutions.
• Conceptualize interconnections between larger systems and apply systems thinking principles and tools to design and plan public policy and administrative models.
• Apply system thinking principles and tools to design public policy.
• Practice creativity, self-assessment, and ethical decision-making, and forge shared commitments to resilient solutions that focus on long-term systemic strategies and outcomes.
• Convene, include, understand and respect diverse stakeholder perspectives in decision making to mobilize, motivate, and achieve collective action on complex problems.
• Understand sustainability and its application in a pragmatic, historical and global context, and manage public finance and budgets sustainably.
• Interpret and prioritize ecological and social issues that have an impact on the public good.
• Apply principles and frameworks of sustainable management and performance measurement to orient and guide policy making and public administration.

Specialized Admissions Requirements

The Sustainable Management: Dual MBA and MPA program is not currently accepting applications.

Curriculum and Degree Requirements

Dual Degree students follow a carefully designed 3-year course of study, covering each of the courses in the MBA and MPA programs. 90 units are required for the dual degree program.

Curriculum Plan