Environmental education in business schools: a collaborative process industry and universities

It is noted that there has recently been a marked change in senior corporate management attitudes and priorities regarding impacts of company operations on the natural environment. This new emphasis requires fresh efforts to educate managers and employees about basic environmental issues and standards, and about the concepts and tools of corporate environmental management. Through the education of future corporate managers and in retraining existing ones, business schools-in partnership with industry-have a pivotal role to play. The Management Institute for Environment and Business (MEB) was created in 1990 to provide support to those schools and programs that were attempting to embrace environmental issues in the curriculum, and to engage companies to directly participate in the educational process. In 1992 MEB established partnerships with five universities that wanted to become leaders in environmental management education. The Pilot Program in Environmental Management Education has become a highly focused, unique experiment aimed at changing the way environmental management education is delivered. It is designed to generate and test innovative educational techniques that improve the environmental competence of business school graduates.<>