MBA Advisory Council Meets at Grad Center

audio of the Advisory Council panel session

Coming from as far away as Malmo, Sweden and as close as Brattleboro, members of our new MBA in Managing for Sustainability Advisory Council spent a non-stop day and evening at the Grad center on Tuesday, May 8.  The Council boasts a top-shelf membership of corporate leaders, outstanding educators, and renowned experts on sustainable practices including:

• J. Barton Goodwin, Chairman of the Board Marlboro College, Partner, BCI Partners Inc. Connecticut
• Sylvia Blanchet, Co-Founder & Member of the Board ForesTrade Inc. Vermont
• Kurt Fischer, Founder and Americas Coordinator Greening of Industry Network Massachusetts
• Karl-Erik Grevendahl, Director, International Affairs Sustainable Business Hub, Sweden
• Darla Hastings, Chief Marketing Officer Dimensional Fund Advisors California
• John W. Hennessey Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of the Management of Man,  Emeritus Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College  Former Provost and Interim President, The University of Vermont
• Randy Kritkausky, President and Co-Founder ECOLOGIA Vermont
• Lisa Lorimer, Co-founder and Member of the Board Vermont Bread Company Vermont
• Dean R. Nicyper, Fleming, Zulack & Williamson, LLP New York
• Dr. Robert Repetto, Professor in the Practice of Economics and Sustainable Development Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
• Jeffry Timmons, Ph.D., Franklin W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship Babson College Massachusetts

The primary event was an intensive session, led by Marlboro President Ellen McCulloch-Lovell. The discussion focused on our new program and the challenges of balancing the fundamental thrust of a robust MBA education for today with the need to prepare our students for a yet unseen, social-responsibility driven business model that will be the hallmark of the 21st Century.  The goal is to promote sound business practices that will both ensure a profit and respect workers, the community and the environment and to help our students re-shape concepts of leadership that allow these financial and social ends to be achieved.  Students will not only learn the basics of business management, but will also focus on subjects such as climate change, the ecology of food, fossil fuel scarcity and corporate social responsibility.

Emerging from the meeting, Graduate Center Academic Director Kevin Bell noted that we are clearly “well positioned to provide this education to our students.  The long history of Marlboro College’s commitment to social welfare, the Graduate Center’s ten-year success teaching students to employ technology in new and creative way, and our dedication to real-world learning combine to make our MBA an outstanding program.”

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