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"I knew coming here that I was going to be in the presence of faculty willing to put their life experience on the table. I can’t imagine having gone through the last two years without those relationships and resources in my life.” - Jessica Flannery, MBA '07 |
As an MBA or Sloan Master’s Program student, you may tailor your coursework to match your personal interests and discover how MBA skills can drive solutions to social problems in all sectors. Each year, the PMP offers 20-30 electives in public policy, nonprofit management, social and environmental entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, philanthropy, and more. These courses highlight collaboration among government, nonprofit, and business entities and explore various paths to creating social and environmental value. Most GSB students take at least one of these courses. Recent offerings have included:
The Certificate in Public Management is available to those students who wish to focus their elective coursework on topics in social and environmental management. The Certificate is evidence of a student’s preparation for and commitment to addressing public issues and can serve as an important signal to future employers.
Explore a topic of social or environmental interest with your peers through the Public Management Initiative (PMI). Teams of students compete each spring to lead the following year’s PMI, an academic initiative of the PMP. The winning team selects one topic to explore in detail throughout the academic year and engages the GSB community in discussion and debate.
The PMI topic for 2009-10 is “Debating Tomorrow: How will business change after the crisis?”
Past PMI topics have included:
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The GSB partners with other university schools to offers unparalleled interdisciplinary experiences:
Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability
Environmental Entrepreneurship
Professor Plambeck talks about her multidisciplinary approach to teaching.
Biodesign Innovation
Professor Zenios talks about the multidisciplinary philosophy behind his biodesign class.
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