Announcements
An Evening with Hunter Lovins and Bard MBA Faculty
Meet the Fall 2012 Bard MBA Faculty in NYC
Monday, May 21, 2012
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We recently announced our Bard MBA in Sustainability faculty for fall 2012 and you're invited to meet with many of them on the evening of Monday, May 21st in New York City. Among the faculty planning to be present will be sustainability legend Hunter Lovins; Shop Your Values Week founder, Jeff Hittner; and Bard MBA Director Eban Goodstein. Join us for a casual evening of conversation, the opportunity to meet other interested and enrolled students, and refreshments!
Please RSVP here to ensure admittance and for full event details.
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: 641 6th Avenue, NYC 8th Floor
Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability
Contact: 845-758-7388
E-mail: kvansant@bard.edu
Website: http://www.bard.edu/mba
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Bard MBA Announces Fall 2012 Faculty
Hunter Lovins, Don Carlson Among Professors in New Program
Thursday, May 10, 2012
The Bard MBA in Sustainability today announced the fall 2012 faculty line-up. Professors include:
- Hunter Lovins, JD, CEO Natural Capitalism: Foundations of Sustainable Business
- Don Carlson, JD, Founding Partner, Forefront Law Group: Leadership
- Eban Goodstein, PhD, Director Bard MBA: Economics and Foundations of Sustainable Business
- Jeff Hittner, MA, CEO EthikUs: Leadership
- Bill Russell, MBA, Principal, Transitioning to Green, Inc.: Accounting and Metrics for Sustainability
- Gautam Sethi, PhD, Professor of Economics, Bard CEP: Economics
- Andrea Spender, MS, Assistant to the Director, Bard MBA: NYCLab
Lovins, green business pioneer, consultant and author, also brings many years of expertise in graduate level sustainable business education and practice. She was a founder of the Presidio School of Management, teaching there for many years, and is currently a Professor in the sustainable MBA program at the Bainbridge Graduate Institute in Seattle. Her most recent book is: The Way Out: Kick-starting Capitalism to Save Our Economic Ass.
Carlson’s law firm specializes in advising start-ups. He served as Chief Knowledge Officer at Goldman Sachs in the early 2000’s, and has been CEO of several companies, including the real world version of the fictional “Lightman Group” featured in Fox’s television series, Lie to Me. He taught previously at Williams College.
Goodstein, Director of the MBA Program, is also author of several books, including the author of a college textbook, Economics and the Environment, now in its sixth edition; Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming; and The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment. He serves on the editorial board of Sustainability: The Journal of Record, and is on the steering committee of Economics for Equity and the Environment. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Follett Corporation, and is on the advisory committee for Chevrolet's Clean Energy Initiative.
Hittner is an experienced social entrepreneur and corporate innovator, currently running two social ventures, Ethikus and 3CS. Hittner has been deputy chair and director of research at the Corporate Eco Forum, a membership organization bringing influential executives of Global 500 companies together to share sustainability best practices, and spent more than five years at IBM, where he founded and led the corporate social responsibility consulting practice for IBM Global Business Services, coauthoring three global studies on CSR. He has taught at NYU.
Russell brings over 25 years of experience in environmental engineering, management consulting, environmental and financial accounting, sustainability performance metrics and management and reporting systems. Formerly a Director at Price Waterhouse, he has been president of several companies. He is co-author of The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook: When it all comes together, and helped launch the Sustainable Enterprise certificate program at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has taught classes in sustainable business there as well as at Columbia University.
Sethi is Associate Professor of Economics at Bard’s Center for Environmental Policy, where he teaches environmental and resource economics. He is co-author of a recent, seminal paper on hedonic analyses of the impact of wind-power siting, and is involved in an interdisciplinary research project on payment for ecosystem services in Mexico.
Spender has ten years of experience spanning the corporate, academic and non-profit sectors. Following four years at McKinsey & Company, she taught in the MBA program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and has been a researcher and administrator at NJIT as well as the National Council for Research on Women.
Classes for the new MBA program begin on August 24th. The admission deadline is June 15th.
Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability
Contact: 845-758-7388
Website: http://www.bard.edu/mba/people/faculty
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$20K Shop Your Values Week Scholarship
Scholarship Competition Up To $20,000!
Thursday, April 26, 2012 - Friday, June 15, 2012
The Bard MBA and Shop Your Values Week have teamed up to provide the “Shop Your Values Week Bard MBA in Sustainability Scholarship” competition from April 19th, 2012 – June 15th, 2012. The winner of the competition will receive a scholarship for up to $20,000 towards tuition for Bard College’s, low-residency MBA in Sustainability, based in NYC.
TO INCREASE THE SCHOLARSHIP AMOUNT
The Shop Your Values Week Bard MBA in Sustainability scholarship is based on academic merit and the candidate’s ability to live their values in all spheres of their life. The scholarship award starts at $1,000 and will be increased by $25, up to a maximum value of $20,000 for the two-year program*, for every person that shares on Facebook or Twitter ”I just added $25 to the Bard MBA in Sustainability Scholarship for #SYVW! ” Click here to tweet or post to Facebook.
TO ENTER THE SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION
In order to be considered for the scholarship, candidates must submit the following:
- Upload a 2-3 minute video to the Shop Your Values Week Facebook page focused on this question: How will you ACT ON your values during and after your Bard MBA experience? (on or before June 15th. 2012)
- Bard MBA application form and materials, completed by June 15th, 2012.
- Completed scholarship entry form located here.
Scholarship finalists will include those who are accepted into the MBA program for Fall 2012, and who submit their video. The scholarship will be awarded to a candidate from this pool by a selection committee including representatives from the Bard MBA and Shop Your Values Week.
*To be awarded in equal amounts each year, i.e. $10,000 in the first year of study, and $10,000 in the second year, for a student enrolled full-time in the program.
Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability
Contact: 845-758-7388
Website: http://www.shopyourvaluesweek.com/scholarship/
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Graduate Open House - Bard MBA and Bard CEP
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Graduate Open House: Bard Center for Environmental Policy and Bard MBA in Sustainability
Saturday, April 21st, 2012 from 11am - 2pm
Bard College, Reem-Kayden Center, Room 102
Useful Links: Download Campus Map and Directions to Bard College
AGENDA
10:30 - 11:00: Registration
11:00 - 11:30: Opening Remarks by Director Goodstein, CEP and MBA
11:30 - 12:00: Program Overview by Molly Williams, Admissions CEP and MBA
12:00 - 12:30: Pizza and Salad, mingle with current students and faculty
12:30 - 1:30: Payment for Ecosystem Services: NYC to Oaxaca! Faculty & Student Panel, CEP
1:30 - 2:00: Studen-led Campus Tour
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Download: CEP OH MAP.pdf
Time: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Contact: 845-758-7071
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Private Breakfast with Hunter Lovins
MBA applicants will join Hunter Lovins for a private breakfast
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
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The Bard MBA in Sustainability is hosting a private breakfast for applicants to the MBA program with sustainability legend, Hunter Lovins in New York City on April 4th. Guests will have the chance to have an intimate conversation with Hunter, a sustainable business pioneer and faculty member in the Bard MBA program. MBA Director Goodstein and admissions personnel will also be on hand to answer program and admissions questions.
Planning to apply to the Bard MBA? Start your application today to qualify for a seat at this unique breakfast.
If you are a Bard MBA applicant, click here to register.
Time: 7:30 am - 9:00 am
Location: New York City
Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability
Contact: 845-758-7388
E-mail: kvansant@bard.edu
Website: http://www.bard.edu/mba
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Bard MBA Online Information Session
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
This online information session is for prospective students and applicants to learn firsthand about our innovative MBA in Sustainability in an easy, low-carbon way. The session is a brief 15-20 minute presentation followed by Q & A.
March 27, 2012 (register): Online Info Session for Applicants and Prospective Students (3:00pm Eastern)
Time: 3:00 pm
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Contact: 845-758-7388
E-mail: kvansant@bard.edu
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Bard MBA Sustainable Business Series - March 12, 2012
Sustainable Finance: What does it look like?
Monday, March 12, 2012
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Please join us for the final event in our spring 2012 Sustainable Business Series. You'll hear from leading industry experts as we ask the question: What does sustainable finance look like? We're thrilled to have investment professional, Rick Stuckey; Gifford Park Associates founder, John Cusack; and Judy Samuelson, the Executive Director of Business & Society Program at The Aspen Institute on our panel for the evening. Following the presentations, there will be a discussion period open to questions from the audience.
6:30 PM: Doors open with small bites and refreshments
7 PM: Sustainable Business Series: Sustainable Finance: What does it look like?
- Rick Stuckey Investment Professional
- John Cusack Founder, Gifford Park Associates
- Judy Samuelson Executive Director, Business & Society Program, The Aspen Institute
- Eban Goodstein Bard MBA Director (Panel Moderator)
**Seating Limited. Click here to Register.
Event flyer available for download below.
2012 Sustainable Business Series
February 6 Read summary here.
Starting a Sustainable Enterprise
Sue Van Hook Mycologist, Ecovative Design
Jeff Hittner* Founder, Ethikus; Co-founder, 3CS
February 13 Read summary here.
Is Sustainable More Productive?
Robert Fox** Partner, Cook + Fox Architects
Julie Engerran* Director, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited
Lee Coker, Project Manager, Corporate Partnerships Program, Environmental Defense Fund
February 20 Read summary here and listen to audio recording here.
MBA Student Roundtable
Speakers TBA
MBA current students and graduates discuss the key elements of a successful MBA in sustainability program
February 27
Financing Clean Energy
Peter Fusaro* Chairman, Global Change Associates
Donald Carlson** Founding Partner, The Forefront Law Group
March 5
A Conversation with Hunter Lovins
Hunter Lovins* President, Natural Capitalism Inc.
March 12 Register HERE
Sustainable Finance, What Does it Look Like?
Rick Stuckey** Investment Professional
John Cusack* Founder, Gifford Park Associates
Judy Samuelson Executive Director, Business & Society Program, The Aspen Institute
* Bard MBA Faculty
** Bard MBA Advisory Board
Download: SBS Flyer.pdf
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: 641 6th Avenue, NYC 8th Floor
Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability
Contact: 845-758-7388
E-mail: kvansant@bard.edu
Website: http://www.bard.edu/mba
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Bard MBA Sustainable Business Series - March 5, 2012
A Conversation with Hunter Lovins
Monday, March 5, 2012
Thank you for your interest in this event. We have reached capacity for our evening of conversation with Hunter Lovins. To be placed on the waiting list, please email Katie at kvansant@bard.edu.
Join the Bard MBA in Sustainability, Bard Center for Environmental Policy, and Women's Network for a Sustainable Future as we host a conversation with sustainable business pioneer Hunter Lovins. For more than three decades, Hunter Lovins has been a leading intellectual force behind the sustainability revolution in business. Hunter helped pioneer the idea that saving the planet need not conflict with profitability, and indeed, that profitable solutions were ultimately the only kind that could save the planet. Through her many books (including Natural Capitalism, and most recently Climate Capitalism), numerous successful start-ups, years of business consulting, and tireless public speaking, Hunter has been a driving force behind changing global dialog, and concrete business practice, in the direction of global sustainability. Bard MBA and CEP Director Eban Goodstein will engage Hunter in an evening of conversation on sustainable business. Following the conversation, there will be a discussion period open to questions from the audience.
6:30 PM: Doors open with small bites and refreshments
7 PM: Sustainable Business Series: A Conversation with Hunter Lovins
- Hunter Lovins President, Natural Capitalism Inc.
- Eban Goodstein Bard MBA Director
Event flyer available for download below.
2012 Sustainable Business Series
February 6 Read summary here.
Starting a Sustainable Enterprise
Sue Van Hook Mycologist, Ecovative Design
Jeff Hittner* Founder, Ethikus; Co-founder, 3CS
February 13 Read summary here.
Is Sustainable More Productive?
Robert Fox** Partner, Cook + Fox Architects
Julie Engerran* Director, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited
Lee Coker, Project Manager, Corporate Partnerships Program, Environmental Defense Fund
February 20 Read summary here and listen to audio recording here.
MBA Student Roundtable
Speakers TBA
MBA current students and graduates discuss the key elements of a successful MBA in sustainability program
February 27
Financing Clean Energy
Peter Fusaro* Chairman, Global Change Associates
Donald Carlson** Founding Partner, The Forefront Law Group
March 5 Registration CLOSED.
A Conversation with Hunter Lovins
Hunter Lovins* President, Natural Capitalism Inc.
March 12 Register HERE
Sustainable Finance, What Does it Look Like?
Rick Stuckey** Investment Professional
John Cusack* Founder, Gifford Park Associates
Judy Samuelson Executive Director, Business & Society Program, The Aspen Institute
* Bard MBA Faculty
** Bard MBA Advisory Board
Download: HunterFlyer.pdf
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: 434 West 33rd Street, NYC
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability
Contact: 845-758-7388
E-mail: kvansant@bard.edu
Website: http://www.bard.edu/mba
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Bard MBA Sustainable Business Series - February 27, 2012
Financing Clean Energy
Monday, February 27, 2012
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Please join bestselling author and clean finance expert, Peter Fusaro, and clean energy business advisor and attorney, Donald Carlson for a powerful discussion on financing clean energy on February 27th for the Bard MBA Sustainable Business Series. Following the presentations, there will be a discussion period open to questions from the audience.
6:30 PM: Doors open with small bites and refreshments
7 PM: Sustainable Business Series: Financing Clean Energy
- Peter Fusaro Chairman, Global Change Associates
- Donald Carlson Founding Partner, The Forefront Law Group
- Eban Goodstein Bard MBA Director (Panel Moderator)
**Seating Limited. Click here to Register.
Ensure your seat at upcoming events as well! Register for all events in the Sustainable Business Series below.
Event flyer available for download below.
2012 Sustainable Business Series
February 6 Read summary here.
Starting a Sustainable Enterprise
Sue Van Hook Mycologist, Ecovative Design
Jeff Hittner* Founder, Ethikus; Co-founder, 3CS
February 13 Read summary here.
Is Sustainable More Productive?
Robert Fox** Partner, Cook + Fox Architects
Julie Engerran* Director, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited
Lee Coker, Project Manager, Corporate Partnerships Program, Environmental Defense Fund
February 20 Read summary here and listen to audio recording here.
MBA Student Roundtable
Speakers TBA
MBA current students and graduates discuss the key elements of a successful MBA in sustainability program
February 27 Register HERE
Financing Clean Energy
Peter Fusaro* Chairman, Global Change Associates
Donald Carlson** Founding Partner, The Forefront Law Group
March 5 Register HERE
A Conversation with Hunter Lovins
Hunter Lovins* President, Natural Capitalism Inc.
March 12 Register HERE
Sustainable Finance, What Does it Look Like?
Rick Stuckey** Investment Professional
John Cusack* Founder, Gifford Park Associates
Judy Samuelson Executive Director, Business & Society Program, The Aspen Institute
* Bard MBA Faculty
** Bard MBA Advisory Board
Download: SBS Flyer.pdf
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: 641 6th Avenue, NYC 8th Floor
Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability
Contact: 845-758-7388
E-mail: kvansant@bard.edu
Website: http://www.bard.edu/mba
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Bard MBA Sustainable Business Series - February 20, 2012
Virtual MBA Student Roundtable
Monday, February 20, 2012
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Please join with leading experts in sustainable business for this powerful discussion series. Our third event features MBA students who will offer their experience with sustainability in business education, expectations from MBA programs, and opportunities for graduates with MBAs in sustainability. Following the roundtable, there will be a discussion period open to questions from the audience.
**Please note that the February 20th event will be a virtual roundtable accessed via telephone (details below).
Ensure your seat at upcoming events as well! Register for all events in the Sustainable Business Series below.
Event flyer available for download below.
2012 Sustainable Business Series
February 6
Starting a Sustainable Enterprise
Sue Van Hook Mycologist, Ecovative Design
Jeff Hittner* Founder, Ethikus; Co-founder, 3CS
February 13
Is Sustainable More Productive?
Robert Fox** Partner, Cook + Fox Architects
Julie Engerran* Director, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited
Lee Coker, Project Manager, Corporate Partnerships Program, Environmental Defense Fund
February 20 Register HERE
MBA Student Roundtable (virtual)
MBA current students and graduates discuss the key elements of a successful MBA in sustainability program
February 27 Register HERE
Financing Clean Energy
Peter Fusaro* Chairman, Global Change Associates
Donald Carlson** Founding Partner, The Forefront Law Group
March 5 Register HERE
A Conversation with Hunter Lovins
Hunter Lovins* President, Natural Capitalism Inc.
March 12 Register HERE
Sustainable Finance, What Does it Look Like?
Rick Stuckey** Investment Professional
John Cusack* Founder, Gifford Park Associates
Judy Samuelson Executive Director, Business & Society Program, The Aspen Institute
* Bard MBA Faculty
** Bard MBA Advisory Board
Download: SBS Flyer2:20.pdf
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Call-in number: 1-712-432-3100; Conference Code: 253385
Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability
Contact: 845-758-7388
E-mail: kvansant@bard.edu
Website: http://www.bard.edu/mba
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