The Sustainable MBA: The Manager's Guide to Green Business

by Giselle Weybrecht

The Sustainable MBA provides the knowledge and tools to help you “green” your job and organization, to turn sustainability talk into action for the benefit of your bottom line and society as a whole. Based on more than 100 interviews with experts in business, international organizations, NGOs and universities from around the world, this first of its kind guide brings together all the pieces of the business and sustainability puzzle The Sustainable MBA is organized like a business school course – allowing you easy access to the relevant information you need about sustainability and Accounting, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Finance, Marketing, Organizational Behaviour, Operations and Strategy. Giselle Weybrecht's commitment to sustainable development goes back to before her university years. Since then she has expanded her reach to local and national government, business, social entrepreneurs, and the international community. She worked for the United Nations World Water Assessment Programme, is a fellow of the UC Berkeley-based Beahrs Environmental Leadership Programme, and holds an MBA from London Business School. She is currently developing new approaches to raise awareness among managers of how they can incorporate sustainability into their businesses and everyday professional lives.

Genres: Sustainability, Business

416 pages, Hardcover

First published December 21, 2009

Reviews

[Tine Putzeys]

It would be a great base to start from, considering it's quite thorough on all the topics. However, the book is already a bit dated. If you start looking up some of the examples she gives, you'll find a lot of them don't exist anymore. Which is unfortunate. I really hope this book will be updated somewhere in the near future, as the foundation is really good.

[Olivia]

A clear, thorough guide

[Natalie]

Provided a good overview and plenty of sources to continue researching. Pretty dated now, but most of the theories still stand.

[Nicolas]

Gives a good overview, but can sometimes be rather dull if you consider that every chapter actually consists of enumerations. The book is good for advice and gives you good and short examples, so I would have given it a 4 out of 5 if it wasn't for my expectations of something more narrative.