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From: Ralph Meima

To: ONE-L@AOMLISTS.pace.edu

Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:59 AM

Subject: Re: sustainability centres

Alex, to add to your growing list, let me add the new MBA program I am directing, the Marlboro College MBA in Managing for Sustainability (www.mba.marlboro.edu).  The program is partly online and partly based on weekend intensives at our Brattleboro, Vermont facility.  We will launch in January with a class of 10-15 students.  A new curriculum has been developed, assisted by considerable information, inspiration, and mentoring from the West Coast pioneers of this alternative sustainability-oriented MBA model: Bainbridge Graduate Institute and Presidio School of Management.  As the program develops, we will gladly share our experience in pushing the concept of the MBA beyond traditional boundaries.  We also anticipate eventually basing some research here.

I should add that ONE-L subscribers who might like to teach as adjunct faculty in this program should contact me.

Best regards,

Ralph Meima

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Ralph Meima, MA, MBA, PhD

Program Director, MBA in Managing for Sustainability

Marlboro College Graduate Center

28 Vernon Street, Suite 120, Brattleboro, Vermont 05301, USA

Tel. +1 802 251-7690

Fax +1 802 258-9201

www.mba.marlboro.edu

http://www.gradcenter.marlboro.edu/

Second Life Island: Marlboro Grad Center

(SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Marlboro%20Grad%20Center/128/128/0)

COME TO OUR UPCOMING MBA OPEN HOUSES!!

PHYSICAL OR VIRTUAL - TAKE YOUR PICK...

On 11/7 from 4:00 to 7:00 pm, we will hold an internet-based chat open house. 

All interaction will be via text.  Contact me for more information.

On 11/15 from 4:00 to 7:00 pm, we will hold an open house in the virtual-reality

environment of Second Life, on the Marlboro Grad Center "island" (or "sim"). 

Interaction will include voice, text, and avatar presence.  To obtain a free

account and an avatar, visit http://www.secondlife.com.  We will provide

coaching to help you get set up.  Note that this should be initiated at least

several days before the Second Life virtual open house, as you must ascertain

whether your computer can handle the client program for SL access, download this

rather large client, create your account/avatar, and take a short 1-2-hour

tutorial to get started.  But, as I said, we can help.

On Nov 7, 2007, at 10:26 AM, Nigel Roome wrote:

Hi Alex,

well this is not a sustainability or environmental management centre as such.

But TiasNimbas Business School has a competence centre called GLOBUS.  This has

focused on the intersection of globalisation and sustainable development as an

interdisciplinary issue at University of Tilburg since 1999. So it has a long

track record of work.

GLOBUS recently became a competence centre of TiasNimbas Business School at The

Tilburg campus and with that its focus has shifted to Corporate Global

Responsibility and Governance.

Just for information the argument is that a company can not be sustainable in

the Brundtalnd sense as it is the wrong unit of analysis.  Indeed,we take the

view that sustainable development is rightly understood as a societal project,

to which business can contribute through corporate responsibility and through

new models of governance.

You can find the web site by following TiasNimbas and/or GLOBUS.

Nigel Roome

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TiasNimbas Business School

Campus Tilburg

Warandelaan 2, T 117 · 5037 AB Tilburg (The Netherlands)

P. +31 (0)13 466 86 14 · F. +31 (0)13 466 86 99

E. n.roome@tiasnimbas.edu · I. http://www.tiasnimbas.edu/

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