BUSINESS TN MAGAZINE

GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE
Jul 3, 2008

Tennessee’s MBA programs are “greening up” to create a generation of more environmentally aware executives. The school's environmental emphasis pulls from expertise in the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies (VCEMS) and the School of Engineering. MARK COHEN, an Owen Graduate School of Management business professor and director of the VCEMS, has been teaching environmental management courses in the MBA program since about 1993."We've had the emphasis since the mid-'90s," Cohen says. "Essentially, it involves taking four courses in the curriculum, two in the business school and two others outside (from the engineering school or even philosophy). Interested students are basically broadening their specialty base."