Studying "the ways businesses incorporate sustainable practices into product design and manufacturing, supply-chain relationships, marketing, customer relationships and operational efficiencies" is how Baldwin-Wallace professor David Krueger defines the new MBA in Sustainability program at Baldwin-Wallace (B-W).

The two-year sustainability program is the first of its kind in Ohio. B-W was also the first higher-education institution in the state to offer an undergraduate major in sustainability, which began in 2008.

Krueger, professor of business and director of the Institute for Sustainable Business Practice, says that the MBA in Sustainability program is designed so that students learn by doing and by observing how sustainable practices are applied in the workplace.

For its part, B-W has been putting sustainable practices to work on campus for the past few years. These have included installing geothermal heating and cooling systems in buildings, instituting an industrial-scale waste composting program and campus-wide recycling and constructing a wind turbine.

B-W's Institute for Sustainable Business Practice, which serves as a resource to businesses, recently received $100,000 from the Cleveland Foundation for its Sustainability Plan Clinic.

SOURCE: Baldwin-Wallace
WRITER: Diane DiPiero