Professor Chris Bingham (center) receives the Core Faculty Champion Award from MBA Net Impact President Liz Love (left) and Dean James Dean (right)

The Core Faculty Champion in Sustainability Award was created by the MBA Net Impact chapter as a way to recognize UNC Kenan-Flagler core faculty members who are excelling at incorporating sustainability into the content and delivery of their core classes. According to Liz Love (MBA ’14), the MBA Net Impact Chapter President, “the Core Faculty Champion in Sustainability Award was created this year to build on UNC Kenan-Flagler’s outstanding reputation for sustainability, and commitment to exploring the ways business can be used to tackle environmental and social challenges. We hope that this award encourages our core faculty to continue to explore ways that they can incorporate sustainability into their course work, and thus strengthen UNC Kenan-Flagler’s brand as a global leader in sustainable business innovation and leadership.”

Professor Bingham, who teaches the core Strategic Management course, was selected as the 2013 Core Faculty Champion in Sustainability Award winner by a vote of the MBA student body. He is already an award-winning teacher and researcher whose interests revolve around organizational learning, adaptation, growth, innovation and strategic decision making in entrepreneurial firms and firms in dynamic markets. In discussing how he brings sustainability into his core course, Professor Bingham said, “In my strategic management course, I have tried to illustrate core strategy principles and ideas through activities that emphasize the community. For example, each year I bring in about 8-12 local non-profit leaders who spend the day meeting with four different MBA strategy groups who help these leaders develop structure for key strategic processes in their organizations.”

Sustainable Enterprise faculty members (left to right) Professors Nick Didow, Carol Seagle, Chris Bingham, Chris Wedding, Al Segars and Vinayak Deshpande

Matt Scallett (MBA ’14), VP of Curriculum and Admissions for the MBA Net Impact chapter, says of Professor Bingham’s teaching, “he did an exceptional job of incorporating sustainability into our strategy class by constantly reminding us that the strategies we were learning did not only apply to the Fortune 500 companies in our cases but to social causes, non-profits and disruptive entrepreneurs as well. Professor Bingham even went so far as to give us class credit for teaching a portion of the course content to someone outside the business school with the expressed intent that as smart and ambitious MBAs we have a responsibility to improve the world around us.”

Please join us in congratulating Professor Chris Bingham for his outstanding and exemplary teaching!

What do a waste-water treatment plant, a high-performance vehicle with a stark resemblance to a Lotus roadster, a solar panel financier, a Sonoma county vineyard and a group of 8 UNC Kenan-Flagler students have in common?  A passion for finding new and innovative solutions to energy challenges, and a sense of adventure.

Kenan-Flagler MBA students on West Coast Trek

Now that our first year is almost over, it’s time to reflect on some of the experiences that stand out. One of these experiences was the UNC Energy Club’s San Francisco Bay Area Career Trek. As many Kenan-Flagler students wrapped up holiday travel in early January, the UNC Energy Club embarked on our first West Coast trek. Our experience offered an inside view of emerging energy technology, providing internship and job leads for some students and opening doors to new academic interest areas for others.

Part of the fascination of the Kenan-Flagler coursework, is the diversity of firms one has the opportunity to examine as a student of business.  The Energy Club carried forward this theme into our trek by visiting companies in a range of their growth stages: from a minimalist office floor full of energetic passion to fully developed office and showroom, the UNC Kenan-Flagler Energy Club saw the full spectrum of early-stage companies: start-ups, high growth, to post-IPO.

Bloom http://www.bloomenergy.com/

Kenan-Flagler Energy Club students at Bloom Energy

Bloom Energy is a science company at its core. Its engineers have developed an innovative technology that can generate power on site and reduce dependency on the grid. The proprietary technology is clean, quiet and efficient, which makes it an excellent candidate for many businesses. We learned about:

• The importance of scientific knowledge, even in a business role. Bloom’s sales and finance teams all had deep backgrounds in engineering and were able to speak intelligently about the technology their company stood for.

West County Wastewater Treatment Facility http://www.wcwd.org/

It was quite a sight: MBAs in suits roaming around a wastewater treatment facility.

Energy and Wastewater Treatment

Someone driving by may have thought they stepped into an episode of the twilight zone.  A wastewater treatment plant may seem like an unusual stop on an Energy Club Career Trek, but the plant, which treats wastewater from the Richmond area outside of Oakland, proved to be a great opportunity for us to witness renewable energy in action. The plant is powered by one of the largest solar arrays in North America and is a model of efficiency. We learned about:

• The wastewater treatment process and how its consistent power demand and long term budgeting makes it uniquely suited to leveraging the power of solar.
• How a man with a plan and a passion for innovative energy can help create some of the largest and most impressive solutions of the time.
• The ways in which the plant is educating the community about waste responsibility and alternative energy sources.

Clean Power Finance http://www.cleanpowerfinance.com/

Tom Harvey, UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA ‘03, is now the Vice President of Residential Sales at Clean Power Finance, an online marketplace connecting investors with energy projects.  We learned about being an innovator amongst innovators in solar financing, as Clean Power Finance aims to create a “marketplace” for solar investors and residential customers that captures all of the benefits of this model, mitigating risks seen by other players in the space as they do so.

Sungevity http://www.sungevity.com/

At Sungevity, a start-up B Corp with roughly 300 employees that finances and subcontracts residential solar electricity installations, we had the unique opportunity to meet with many members of senior leadership. Dave Dunlap (COO), Martha Belcher (Vice President of Customer Care), Susan Hollingshead (Director of People) and Mac Irvin (CFO) each shared experience from both a personal and professional perspective. Some highlights include:

• Know your accounting fundamentals and language inside and out. Whatever your field, a solid accounting foundation allows leaders to understand key drivers of profitability and participate in key project finance decisions.
• As an intern, don’t be afraid to ask your team what the company’s biggest challenges and weaknesses are, as long as you frame your interest in a positive light and are committed to working toward solutions. Tackling the big questions is sometimes easiest from an outside perspective.

Mosaic https://joinmosaic.com/

Floor 3  you say?  As the elevator doors opened to an open-concept office space with a few desks, we weren’t sure that we had the right space.   And then the smiling face of our contact, Lisa Curtis,  greeted us, and we were ushered to a small conference room with whiteboards filled with ideas.  We had arrived at Mosaic, a budding company bringing the crowd-sourcing concept to the solar industry.  Brimming with excitement about a product launch scheduled to take place the following Monday, Lisa walked us through their site design and the mission-driven concept behind the company’s purpose.

Tesla http://www.teslamotors.com/

Tesla Motors is famed for creating the first premium electric car with long range

UNC Kenan-Flagler Energy Club students and Tesla

capabilities. The company seeks wide-spread acceptance of electric cars in America. The Class of 2014 studied Tesla as part of our marketing class, so it was extremely exciting to visit the offices in person. The highlights:

• Experiencing the hustle and bustle of Tesla’s immense, open plan offices. The environment fosters collaboration, creativity and produces great ideas.
• Hearing about the famed leadership style of Elon Musk, founder of Paypal, and how he sought to revolutionize the pained automotive industry by making a superior car with maximum performance and minimum environmental impact.
  • Getting to take our picture in a real Tesla X roadster. Try getting out of one of those things!

Silver Spring Networks http://www.silverspringnet.com/

Silver Spring Networks creates the technologies that modernize our electric grid. From smart meters that track home electricity usage to load control devices, Silver Spring helps integrate renewable and traditional energy to bring efficiency to the masses.   At Silver Spring’s offices, we learned:

• How lowering overall energy consumption can reduce the need for more power plants and save consumers and businesses money.
• The importance of digital technology in solutions for the modern consumer

We can’t wait to see the club’s membership, brand, and trek opportunities grow next year and beyond.  Moreover, we are thrilled to see developments for these companies, like Silver Springs Networks IPO a few weeks ago, or Mosaic’s feature on Bloomberg Live.  As these companies grow, we feel lucky to have captured a glimpse of their journey, all at very different stages.

We rounded out the trip with a Saturday trek through the Sonoma wine region to Anaba Wines, a wind-powered winery. Many of California’s wineries have turned to renewable energy to green their operations and keep costs down. Read more about Anaba here: http://www.anabawines.com/

Special thank you’s are due to:

• Center for Sustainable Enterprise
• Kenan-Flagler Energy Club leadership
• Kenan-Flagler MBASA
• Kenan-Flagler Bay Area Alumni
• All of our company hosts

Who knew that an insurance company could be financially sustainable and effect positive social change? Well that is what the Undergraduate Net Impact Career Fellows, a group of select UNC students, discovered when Kevin Trapani, CEO of The Redwoods Group, and Dan Baum, the Executive Director of The Redwoods Group Foundation, spoke on March 26 as part of the Net Impact Career Series.

Jessie Robinson, BS Environmental Science ’16

The Redwoods Group is a social enterprise whose mission is to love, serve, and transform, in that order. A certified B corporation that aims to satisfy stakeholders, not just shareholders, the company mainly insures YMCAs across the country as well as other nonprofit and for-benefit camps. Trapani and Baum stressed the need to do important work well and to scale. They often take the road less traveled and do things that will have a greater positive social impact, despite the challenges it may present.

Fifteen years ago when The Redwoods Group started, the YMCA was “uninsurable” due to the high average of about thirteen cases of children drowning in YMCA pools per year. Most insurance companies either refused to insure YMCAs or would charge an extremely high premium in order to make a profit. The Redwoods Group, however, did not follow suit. They began insuring YMCAs and advised the employees on ways to create a safer environment for kids. The YMCA now has an average of zero to two child deaths from cases of drowning per year. Although the number of deaths has significantly decreased since The Redwoods Group began working with YMCA, they will not be satisfied until there are zero deaths.

Dan Baum (left) & Kevin Trapani (right)

As a student at UNC and member of the Net Impact Career Fellows, it was fascinating to hear about the social impact of The Redwoods Group. Before listening to Trapani and Baum speak, I believed almost every insurance company simply focused on making a profit and benefiting at others’ expense. However, I have learned that this stereotype is incorrect. Although The Redwoods Group does make a profit, they do so as a means to ensure greater social impact and financial sustainability, and to “create a hedge against volatility,” as Trapani remarked. Hearing about the impact of The Redwoods Group made me realized that a variety of companies can be successful at positively impacting their communities, even the untypical insurance company.

The Redwoods Group has already had an enormous impact on YMCAs across the country, helping them to reduce the cases of drowning, identify sexual abusers, provide safer vans to transport children, and much more. I can only imagine the extent of the social impact The Redwoods Group will continue to have in the future.

Earth Hour:

There was a sudden darkness in the McColl building at Kenan-Flagler on Tuesday, April 3rd from 1:00pm to 2:00pm. The power hadn’t gone out; the lights were all still functional; and nobody reached for a light switch. Celebrated all over the world, Earth Hour is meant as a “massive show of concern for the environment,” and is observed by turning out all non-essential lights for one hour. While not during the official Earth Hour for 2013 (March 23, 8:30pm – 9:30pm), Net Impact, along with Kenan-Flagler administration and facilities management of the McColl building, came together in the spirit of Earth Hour to turn out non-essential lights. The “net impact” of this event was a sudden 11% drop in the electrical usage of the building. If even half of this impact could be realized on an annualized basis, the school would save over $12,000 and 129 metric tons of Carbon Dioxide.

GAP CSR:

Textiles are a large industry and one with a checkered history in corporate social responsibility, but recently it has taken major strides and GAP Inc. is one of the companies leading the way. On Wednesday, April 4th, Geoffry Geist, Strategy and Communications Manager for GAP Inc.’s Department of Corporate Social Responsibility gave a brief introduction to all the aspects of CSR with which GAP is involved. After his brief presentation, students asked insightful questions ranging from the value proposition for CSR at GAP Inc. to the effect of Socially Responsible Investors on GAP’s initiatives. Co-sponsored by Net Impact, the Retail Club, and Carolina Women in Business, the event drew over 25 people and exhibited the wide-ranging impacts that CSR has on large corporations.

Sustainability Trivia:

To show the fun side of sustainability and to test all of the knowledge disseminated throughout the week, on Thursday, April 5th, Net Impact invited the Kenan-Flagler community out to a local bar for Sustainability Trivia night. Over 30 people came out on a rainy and cold night and gathered to test their sustainability knowledge. With questions ranging from greenhouse gas emissions to socially responsible investing, everybody’s knowledge was truly flexed. While only three of the teams were able to take home a prize, everybody walked out with a better understanding of the impact that our business operations have on the environment, both social and physical.

While this year’s Green Week has come and gone, the spirit of Green Week and the knowledge that has been passed on to the Kenan-Flagler community will have a lasting impact long into the future through the enlightened the minds of Kenan-Flagler’s next generation of business leaders.

On Tuesday, February 26^th, Brett Smith (MBA ’94), Founder and President of Counter Culture Coffee, spoke to a group of Undergraduate Net Impact Career Fellows. He discussed his philosophy on sustainability and introduced Counter Culture Coffee’s triple bottom line business model. Not only was I excited for this installment of the Net Impact Career Fellows speaker series, but I was pumped that it was going to meet the President of my favorite coffee roaster.

Doug Stiegler (Undergraduate Business ’15), Undergraduate Net Impact Career Fellow

Counter Culture Coffee is a wholesale coffee vendor whose vision is to pursue coffee perfection by creating partnerships that ensure prosperity for all people, improving the natural environment and operating efficiently to minimize our environmental impact. Launched in 1995, Counter Culture Coffee has seen 20% growth in each of the past 17 years. The company has 54 employees and brought in $18 million in sales in 2012. Counter Culture Coffee can be found in coffee shops around the US, including The Daily Grind in The Pit.

Counter Culture Coffee has been dedicated to sustainability since its inception. As Brett said, “It just makes sense.” From my personal experience with UNC’s Renewable Energy Special Projects Committee (RESPC), I’ve seen how sustainability is often centered on doing more with less. Waste of anything, whether it be electricity, food, or time is almost always accompanied by a financial burden. Reducing such waste will reduce financial burden and widen margins. It just makes sense.

My favorite part of the presentation was Brett’s mention of a common misconception: that sustainability is a compromise of business. He mentioned multiple times how there was a time and place for charity, and a time and place for business. Counter Culture Coffee is a business, a for-profit business, run in a way that is socially, environmentally, and fiscally responsible. The company boldly proves wrong the misconception that “sustainable” means slower, weaker, less durable or less reliable.

Brett Smith (MBA ’04) Founder and President of Counter Culture Coffee

Gathering and quantifying data on sustainability efforts has allowed Counter Culture Coffee to see real results. Brett argues that sustainability requires measuring and quantifying results. For example, by simply turning brewers off at night and on the weekends, they cut their electricity consumption by 60%. Counter Culture Coffee’s CUPS Initiative, Coffee as an Unrelenting Pursuit of Sustainability, sets aggressive goals to increase supply chain satisfaction, shrink their carbon footprint, and maintain profitability. To track progress towards their sustainability goals, Counter Culture Coffee has created an annual Sustainability Scorecard.

Education, for farmers and for consumers, is a unique feature of Counter Culture Coffee’s business model. The company encourages organic farming and agribusiness workshops for farmers. Brett invests a large amount of time and energy into establishing relationships with his farmer-partners. For consumers, Counter Culture Coffee holds trainings around the country that yield educated coffee people. Classes cover topics from how to choose the right coffee to different brewing methods. These training classes are a  great example of experiential marketing and are filling up more quickly than ever.

Brett Smith is an inspiration and an exemplary leader. There is so much to learn from companies like Counter Culture Coffee when it comes to the triple bottom line. I can’t wait to go to a cupping in Durham to taste all of their blends and tour their facility!

The Center for Sustainable Enterprise (CSE), along with partners across campus, hosted “Water and Energy in the Crosshairs,” a symposium in February that featured local and global experts in an exploration of the issues found at the nexus of water and energy. It highlighted UNC-Kenan Flagler’s commitment to addressing the problems and potential solutions surrounding the world’s finite water and energy resources, says Carol Seagle, CSE director of research and a strategy and entrepreneurship professor.

Christian Parenti

“Most of the events were standing room only,” she said. “The cross-campus collaboration was special.” The symposium kicked off with a screening of the new documentary, “Switch,” which discusses the future of energy. Christian Parenti, author of “Tropics of Chaos: Climate Change and the Geography of Violence,” gave the keynote address. Panel discussions on water and energy and a closing keynote address “Beyond Sustainability” wrapped up the symposium.

“The questions we need to ask are how do we manage water and energy usage and efficiency, how do we build that into a business model, and finally how do we delve more deeply into water and energy as an opportunity for innovation?,” says Jessica Thomas, CSE managing director. Historically, UNC Kenan-Flagler has been a global leader in sustainability education, and today approximately 30 percent of all MBA students graduate with a concentration in sustainability. Recently, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked UNC Kenan-Flagler as having the No. 7 MBA program in sustainability internationally.

2012 Sustainability Leadership Capstone students

“This is an area we’ve been leaders in driving since 1999, and it is core to the values of UNC Kenan-Flagler,” Thomas says. “We recognized early on the importance of thinking about the impact of business, not just on the bottom line but on a broad range of stakeholders, the environment and people who are impacted all along the supply chain.”

The school’s sustainability curriculum provides a number of opportunities to explore the connection between effective business management and environmentally friendly practices, including classroom and on-site learning. Students can participate in “Sustainability in Action” treks to understand how real business owners run sustainable companies and gain first-hand insight into industry best practices.

Lisa Jones Christensen, a strategy and entrepreneurship professor, teaches the Sustainability Leadership Capstone MBA course that takes students outside the classroom and challenges them to apply sustainable concepts in real companies and non-profit organizations. “My goal is to create change agents,” Christensen says. “We’re trying to give people the leadership capabilities to create a better and different world, and allow them to hit the ground running when they graduate.”

Procter & Gamble PuR Users

Christensen and her students have partnered with doctors in Malawi on a clean drinking water project in the past. “Water cuts through so many of our classes and programs, and touches so many students,” Christensen says. “Our whole center is dedicated to promoting the issue and changing the way people do things related to water.”

Indeed, UNC Kenan-Flagler’s partnership with Procter and Gamble in the Children’s Safe Drinking Water Project represents just one of the ways that the school has maximized the opportunity to innovate in the arena of sustainable enterprise. “I think what we do really well that other schools don’t is that we don’t separate the ideas of business and sustainability,” Seagle says. “We focus on integration and use sustainability as a lens through which we can view business problems. It’s an extra tool in the toolbox.”

The following is an excerpt from a blog post by current weekend MBA student, Brandon Tidwell. To read the full post, please go to Sustainability at Darden.

“When I first began my career in corporate social responsibility (CSR) in 2007, our team at FedEx continually struggled to get our citizenship message out to various stakeholders. In the years to come, FedEx introduced its first Global Citizenship Report, launched a blog for ongoing storytelling and leveraged key social media channels to connect with numerous audiences. The team began to see the citizenship story take shape and become visible, and readily available, to the public sphere.

Brandon Tidwell (EMBA ’13)

Today, most Fortune 500 companies have issued their first CSR/sustainability report, or have been reporting for more than a decade. These companies have blogs, social media channels and media campaigns meant to better tell the story of their corporate responsibility efforts around the globe. We have all learned how to find and use these “megaphones” to share our best practices.

The challenge is that the goal posts are ever-changing. To start, we’ve identified the low-hanging fruit and we’ve addressed the most obvious issues such as reducing energy, water and waste in our operations. But as we move forward, an increasing number of stakeholders want to see full supply chain responsibility and deepened sustainability investment to move the needle and face our global challenges.

In tackling such issues and challenges, the megaphone is an inappropriate communications tool and a more surgical approach is needed. While the megaphone still has its role, more and more CSR and sustainability professionals are being called upon to provide leadership with a deeper level of analysis necessary to make tough choices about where, when and how to invest their capital and human resources. Ranging from Puma’s environmental profit and loss to Dow’s valuation of natural resources, companies are investing further to understand current issues and how they relate to challenges in the environment.”

Brandon Tidwell is Manager of Sustainability for Darden Restaurants. In this role, he is responsible for the development and implementation of corporate sustainability strategies and policies across all of Darden. Brandon joined Darden from FedEx and is a candidate for a Master’s in Business Administration at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business. He also holds a master’s degree in Social Work from Baylor and a certificate in Philanthropy from New York University.

Brandon Tidwell (EMBA ’13)

Corey Barnes (MBA ’14)

In order to tackle the energy problems that face us, the average citizen needs more information about our energy system: where our energy comes from, how it’s transmitted, and how it’s used. On February 6^th, 2013 the Switch Energy Project and UNC came together to bring some of that much needed information to the people of Chapel Hill. The rainy Wednesday night did not bode well for attendance, but over 240 people steadily streamed into the theater, filling it to capacity. People hungry for this information filled the seats and the isles.

Switch, the documentary:

I am a fervent believer in giving people the information to make a right decision. And that is exactly what Switch does. Throughout the documentary, geologist and professor Scott Tinker takes a balanced and scientific look at all of our current energy sources, measuring them in a way that is intuitive to all viewers: the amount of energy one person uses in a year. From this we see the incredible power of traditional energy sources, but the problems with making them clean; we see the vast potential of renewable sources, but the problems with bringing them to scale; finally, we see the immediate impact that energy efficiency can have and just how overlooked an opportunity it is.

The Discussion:

After the viewing of Switch, there was a panel moderated by the president of the UNC Kenan-Flagler Energy Club, Natalie Birdwell. Panelists spanned the gamut of the energy industry: from Jonas Monast of Duke University’s Nicholas Institute discussing energy policy, to Hans Hartenstein of STAEG Energy Services discussing the implementation of change, to Miriam Makhyoun of NC Sustainable Energy discussing how to change the structural advantages of conventional energy. There was a lively discussion with questions ranging from the potential for implementation of CAFÉ standard for power plants to who bears the cost of climate change mitigation tactics. All through this lively and knowledgeable conversation you could see and hear the engagement of the crowd; this is truly a “charged” issue.

At the end of the night, there was no resolution or consensus about where the energy system is headed, but everybody in the theater left with the information needed to make better choices about their energy future.

The Switch screening was part of the 2013 UNC Global Sustainability Symposium, “Water and Energy in the Crosshairs,” a collaboration between the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Center for International Business Education and Research and UNC Global’s Center for European Studies; Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies; and African Studies Center, and the UNC Institute for the Environment.

View the video of P&G CEO Bob McDonald’s talk.

Matt Crook (MBA ’14)

As business leaders, we must consider the long-term strategy of our organizations and the impact our decisions have on other people. Having a deep knowledge of and empathy for other cultures will be critical in doing business in the future, and Procter and Gamble can serve as an example to other businesses, regardless of size or mission.

On January 14, Bob McDonald, the CEO of P&G (number 26 on the Fortune 500 list) came to UNC Kenan-Flagler as a part of the Dean’s Speaker Series. His talk focused on the growth prospects of P&G and their Global Water Project in Africa and UNC’s involvement with those efforts. McDonald, who served as a US Army Captain before joining P&G in 1980, spoke to a packed Koury Auditorium that housed a mixed crowd of students, faculty, and community members.

I left his event with three main takeaways: 1) Companies like P&G (which is older than most governments) have to think very long term when it comes to company strategy, 2) P&G is setting it’s sights on Africa for future growth, and 3) marketing in Africa is very different from marketing in other communities.

For a company like P&G, charting corporate strategy and steering the ship can be like parking a cruise liner in the harbor. Doing so takes a lot of foresight and a lot of momentum to create change. It’s evident that when charting P&G’s direction, management does so thinking about the next 50 years, and what can be done today to achieve those goals.

That is why when a company like P&G states that Africa is next growth opportunity, everyone should sit up and listen. Too often Africa is dismissed as too risky for businesses looking to expand. P&G’s decision should indicate that Africa is not only a viable option for expansion, but also one that should be considered for long-term growth opportunities.

Left to right: MBA Associate Dean Sridhar Balasubramanian, P & G CEO Bob McDonald, Dean James W. Dean, Jr.

Other firms can also learn from P&G’s marketing efforts when entering new geographies. One of McDonald’s driving points throughout his presentation was the need to approach people in new markets with a sense of empathy. If you truly realize people’s culture, lifestyle, and needs, you’ll make a more impactful connection, which will help firms align their business to their customers. This connection has led P&G to not only expand it’s core businesses in Africa, but to also establish social and wellness programs that help them develop ties with the communities that they operate in.

Whether or not we agree with all of P&G’s business practices, we should be able to learn from the company’s current strategies and apply specific methods to how we make decisions moving forward. Thinking about long term opportunities instead of short term gains, exploring markets that may be conventionally thought of as risky, and creating a connection with our stakeholders to align our businesses with the needs of people are all fine examples of things we can start doing today that will make lasting positive impacts in the future.

View the video of P&G CEO Bob McDonald’s talk.

For over a decade, UNC Kenan-Flagler has been a global leader in providing students with the tools and strategies to advance corporate social responsibility and ethics. MBA students can take courses in the world class Sustainable Enterprise Enrichment Concentration composed of 20 electives including the Sustainability Leadership Capstone. In 2012, 31% of the graduating MBA class completed the Sustainable Enterprise Concentration. UNC Kenan-Flagler continues to excel in developing leaders for the world we envision using business to innovate for global social and environmental change.

The Financial Times, Global MBA Rankings 2013
Top for CSR/Ethics

1    Yale School of Managment
2    University of California at Berkeley: Haas
3    University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler
4    University of Virginia: Darden
5    University of British Columbia: Sauder
6    University of Michigan: Ross
7    George Washington University
8    Iese Business School
9    Duke University: Fuqua
10  York University: Schulich