Success in sustainable business requires mastery of core business fundamentals. Green companies have to execute around product quality and performance, efficient operation, sound financial management, deep employee engagement, responsible and effective marketing, creative responses to changing economic conditions, flexible strategy, and continuous innovation. Students in the Bard MBA program receive rigorous training in these core areas. More >

We are living in an extraordinary moment in human history, dominated by one fundamental question. We share our world with 7 billion people, and soon there will be 9 billion of us, all aspiring to a good quality of life. Can we meet human needs with the limited resources of this one planet? The answer lies in sustainable business. More >

Business education in sustainability demands a strong hands-on orientation. A key component of the Bard MBA curriculum is NYCLab. During the first year of study, working in small teams, students engage in consultancies for NYC-area businesses, government agencies and non-profits. Each team is closely mentored by a faculty member. During the residencies in NY City, students are exposed to a range of guest experts, and meet regularly with the businesses for which they are consulting. More >

As a pioneering member of our inaugural class, you will help shape our program, co-creating a new kind of business education that will be a model for the world. Above all, you will gain knowledge and skills that will be the foundation for the work of your life. More >

The Bard MBA faculty reflect the broad diversity and extraordinary talent of sustainability-focused leaders in the New York City region and beyond. In addition to the permanent faculty at Bard, the weekend intensive structure of the program supports a remarkable set of cutting-edge practioners as program faculty. Some of our faculty teach full time, some share their expertise during set modules. More >

Bard offers a unique MBA, one of a small handful of programs globally that fully integrate the study of business and sustainability. In coursework from Leadership to Operations, from Marketing to Finance, and from Economics to Strategy, our modular, cross-cutting curriculum insures that students master the business case for sustainability, understanding how to align profit with ecological and social mission. More >

The Bard MBA is structured around weekend intensives. There are five of these intensives each term: four in the heart of New York City, and one in the Hudson Valley, north of the city. Classes run for four days, beginning on Friday morning and ending Monday afternoon. Students and faculty are together for an engaged and intense period, sharing class time, meals, down-time, and enabling a powerful kind of education that really sticks. More >