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Changing Business for Good tm
Interested in helping us change business for good?
BGI's pioneering MBA and Certificate programs prepare diverse leaders to build enterprises that are economically successful, socially responsible and environmentally sustainable.
Our innovative curriculum preserves the rigor of a traditional MBA program, while infusing sustainability—environmental and social responsibility—throughout every course.
The MBA program combines distance learning with monthly, intensive, face-to-face classroom sessions. Students build a strong, cooperative learning community with each other, the faculty and staff. Our faculty comprises distinguished business-school professors and business innovators from around U.S. and Canada with a passion for sustainability.
Find out if our MBA in Sustainable Business or one of our Certificate programs, in Sustainable Business or in Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship, is right for you.
Latest BGI News
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Monday, 28 April 2008 |
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BOSTON – Ceres and Trillium Asset Management Corporation (“Trillium”) today announced the inaugural winners of the Joan Bavaria Awards for Building Sustainability into the Capital Markets. The two winners were announced at the Ceres annual conference in Boston.
The winner of the Bavaria Award for Innovation is the Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI) in Washington, the first graduate school in the U.S. to offer an MBA in Sustainable Business.
The winner of the Bavaria Award for Impact is Enhanced Analytics
Initiative (EAI), an international collaboration between asset owners
and asset managers aimed at encouraging research providers to produce
investment research that takes into account the impact of
extra-financial issues on long-term company performance.
Ceres and Trillium established the new annual awards program in honor
of Joan Bavaria, a socially responsible investment pioneer who
co-founded Trillium in 1982 and Ceres in 1989. The awards celebrate
Bavaria’s distinguished career in integrating social and environmental
factors in capital market decision-making. Bavaria also founded the
Social Investment Forum in 1981.
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008 |
Gifford Pinchot III delivered the keynote address on April 21 to Yale University’s Conference of Governors on Climate Change alongside Theodore Roosevelt IV. Five governors, former EPA head, Christine Todd Whitman, and several foreign dignitaries gathered to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the Conference of Governors, which launched the modern conservation movement and spurred the development of the national park system, and to honor Pinchot’s grandfather and Roosevelt’s great-grandfather.
In 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt I called a Conference of Governors to address the issue of land preservation in the United States. Gifford Pinchot I, at the invitation of the President, attended as the leading conservation specialist and keynote speaker. Pinchot was the first head of the U.S. National Forest Service and is commonly referred to as the “Father of the Conservation Movement.” Washington State’s Gifford Pinchot National Forest, which contains Mt. Saint Helens National Volcanic Monument, was named after Pinchot I.
“I was sheep-dipped in the environmental movement from a very early age,” chuckled a grinning Gifford Pinchot III, “whenever the Roosevelts came to the Pinchot household several things were always discussed: land use; boxing and wrestling.”
Pinchot III has followed in his grandfather’s footsteps as a life-long conservationist and now as the head of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, which is pioneering sustainable business education. Says Pinchot, “I believe we need to teach business education on the triple bottom line [profit, people and planet] instead of solely using profit as the gauge of success. If business takes the lead in the conservation movement, we can change the world”.
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Upcoming Events |
Upcoming Information Sessions
Want to learn more about BGI’s MBA and certificate
programs? Visit with us in either Seattle or Portland
on the following dates: Please RSVP
Wed., May 21 @ 6:30 p.m.
In Seattle information sessions are held at the Clear Channel Network headquarters, 351 Elliot Ave W, suite 300, Seattle. (at Elliot and Harrison right along the railroad tracks and next to F5 building) Click here to map it.
In Portland, information sessions are held at Souk, 322 NW 6th
Ave., Portland (in Old Town Chinatown between Everett and
Flanders). Click here to map it.
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