Online Sustainable Business Course - USM Center for Continuing Education
Managing for financial, environmental, and social performance
Climate change, volatile energy prices, consumer interest in green products and services, and stakeholder demand for corporate accountability call for the adoption of sustainable business practices and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Learn how large corporations like Interface, small firms like New Belgium Brewing, and green-tech start ups are prospering by managing the triple bottom line of People, Planet, and Profit.
Who should enroll?
Entrepreneurs, leaders, and managers who understand traditional management, but want to move their organization toward sustainability. Perhaps the buzz about green business has piqued your interest. Or perhaps you seek the next level of knowledge after having been inspired at a business seminar or reading a best seller like Hot, Flat and Crowded, Natural Capitalism or Green to Gold.
Benefits to you?
Be on the leading edge of business thinking.
Cut through the abstract idea of 'sustainability' to see practical implications for your firm.
Discover which sustainable business practices, tools, and resources are best to use.
Learn how to generate organizational change by getting others onboard.
Bounce ideas off practitioners and graduate school professors.
Build your resume with a Certificate in Sustainable Business.
To view a brief sample visit http://media.usm.maine.edu/~artz/CCE/CCE%20certificate.htm
