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

'The Sustainable MBA: The Manager's Guide to Green Business' is the guide for those interested in what the business sector can and is doing in business and sustainability with lots of tips on how to get involved and how to bring these ideas into your job, whatever job that might be.

It is organized like a business school course - allowing easy access to information on sustainability and Accounting, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Finance, Marketing, Organizational Behaviour, Operations and Strategy.

Based on over 100 interviews with experts in business, international organizations, NGOs and universities from around the world, this book brings together all the pieces of the business and sustainability puzzle in an easy to use, easy to understand format including;

* The basics on what sustainability is, why you should be interested, how to get started, and what a sustainable organization looks like.

* A wide range of tools, guidelines, techniques and concepts that you can use to implement sustainability practices.

* Tools and tips on how to "green" your job, including how to sell these ideas to your team, how to make green choices as a consumer and how to organize green meetings.

* A survey of the exciting trends in sustainable business happening around the world.

* A wealth of links to interesting resources for more information.

The book has endorsements from some influential individuals including the Director General of UNEP and the UN Global Compact, WBCSD, CEO of Unilever, and the Global Reporting Initiative.

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

The book is part of a project I started during my own MBA. After many years working with and at the United Nations in sustainability projects internationally, I left to pursue an MBA to learn more about what the business sector was doing in this area. The original plan had been to then go and work on these issues from within a company after completing my MBA, working to make changes from the inside out.

However once I started the MBA, I realised that students weren't being adequately exposed to sustainability issues, and so I started a project looking at how to educate the next generation of business leaders in sustainability issues to give more individuals the tools to make changes in their own businesses. "The Sustainable MBA" book resulted from this project, and it is now being used in a variety of ways; by universities developing new green MBA courses and as a resource for standard MBA courses, by career service departments to help advise graduates and job seekers about sustainability career options, by different clubs and community groups using it as a conversation piece and awareness raising tool and by businesses using it for in-house training and to encourage employees to start thinking about how to bring sustainability to their jobs.

For more visit www.thesustainablemba.com