Grossman School of Business

The Sustainable Innovation MBA Career Launch

The Sustainable Innovation MBA program curriculum is unique in its design and focus. However, real world exposure and experience are also crucial to the development of the personal perspective and skills needed to be an effective sustainable business change agent. Accordingly, The Sustainable Innovation MBA integrates several elements that provide practical, hands-on experience and connections.

Career Launch

The Sustainable Innovation MBA Career Launch is a Four-Phase system that includes career coaching, skill development, and networking opportunities. The Sustainable Innovation MBA Career Launch was bolstered by a generous gift from Vermont Works. Learn more about the Launch process.

Why Hire a Sustainable Innovation MBA Student

Traditional MBA Programs focus on training people for “executional” jobs in established firms—jobs in marketing, finance, and operations, for example. The Sustainable Innovation MBA team endeavors to create change agents rather than implementers. The Sustainable Innovation MBA focuses on four primary domains for placing our graduates:

Intrapreneurs: Growing numbers of existing businesses and corporations have reached maturity or have even begun to decline. Many base businesses are built on yesterday’s unsustainable thinking and technology. Many more fail to reach the majority of humanity in the emerging and growth markets in the developing world. The Sustainable Innovation MBA builds the business skills to both incubate new, disruptive or leapfrog businesses within existing corporations, and to help lead the process of corporate transformation for those companies seeking to fundamentally transform themselves to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
Consultants: Increasingly, the world of consulting is turning its attention to innovation, disruption, and corporate transformation rather than simply the continuous improvement of existing businesses and strategies. Our graduates are well suited to the emerging consulting practices focused on sustainability-driven innovation.
Entrepreneurs: We target new ventures and start-ups that focus on tomorrow’s environmentally sustainable technology and socially inclusive business models. Our graduates are perfectly suited to help imagine, craft, and build such ventures. Some may—and already have—started their own.
Investors: Increasingly, the world of finance is turning its attention to “impact,” “social,” and “sustainable” investing. The Sustainable Innovation MBA develops graduates who are well suited to understanding how to invest in and build new ventures that generate triple bottom line returns—socially, environmentally, and financially.