The new green focus for future MBAs

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Current and prospective business-school students are clamouring for CSR programmes in their curricula. Padma Nagappan takes a look a how three traditional MBA programmes are responding to booming demand for green management courses

Recently, a majority of MBA students at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder, signed a letter strongly stating that the reason they chose the school was for its leadership position...

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