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Steward Of The Campfire
Leadership Professor Cynthia Scott brings people together. “Come to the campfire.” For many Presidians this phrase evokes the memory of Leadership for Sustainable Management with Professor Cynthia Scott. Cynthia uses the symbol of the campfire as a place for students to gather in reflection, storytelling, and collaboration. The campfire also serves as a reminder that leadership …
Thule & Tuvalu - A Portrait Of Two Places At The Brink of Climate Change
Students and staff at Presidio Graduate School attended the SF Green Film Festival last week to decompress and celebrate together the end of another powerful semester. We had the opportunity to watch the documentary “ThuleTuvalu,” a story about two places at opposite edges of the world but with one common threat: climate change. The film documents …
From Novice to Leader, Outdoors Club Backpacks Through Point Reyes!
When I signed up for the Outdoors Club Spring weekend camping trip in Pt. Reyes, I was making two gambles: 1) I had never been backpacking before and 2) I was entirely new to school — a fresh addition to Presidio’s C22. Spoiler alert: None of this mattered by the end of the trip. The …
Free Trade Legislation and Sustainability
What bar will we set for a level playing field for international trade? The US is currently negotiating free trade deals with the EU (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP) as well as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with Canada and multiple Asian countries, not including China. If ratified, these agreements will impede or stop …
Society's Monetary System Can't Create a Sustainable Economy
Let’s be honest: the deficit isn’t going away anytime soon. It is a problem, but it’s not the real problem. The real issue we need to be concerned with is that our money system cannot create a sustainable economy, at least not in today’s world. Money is issued by the same debt system used to …
Luni Libes Featured in CNBC Article on Entrepreneurship in Seattle
Pinchot entrepreneurship professor Luni Libes was recently featured in a CNBC article on Seattle’s new wave of entrepreneurs. Fledge, Libes’ startup accelerator, was inspired by Pinchot MBAs in need of a stepping stone between graduate and successful entrepreneur. The fruits of this work are companies you may have heard of: Stockbox Grocers, Community Sourced Capital, and Evrnu to …
NY Times recognizes PGS as #1 MBA if you want to ‘Change the World’
If you want to work in luxury goods, go to France’s HEC Paris. If you want to work for Procter and Gamble, go to Indiana’s Kelley School of Business. But if you want to change the world, go to Presidio Graduate School (PGS). That’s the idea in an article The New York Times released last …
How Millennials and Women Are Paving the Way for Sustainability
Millennials and women today are approaching investments a bit differently than men and women in the past. Statistically speaking, their investments are based on more than the chance to receive the highest return possible—they’re also based on the social and environmental impact of the investment. Consider the Statistics According to Morgan Stanley, 40 percent of …
The Redeemable Company: Inside Corporate Citizenship with Sandra Taylor
In some circles large multinational corporations are the root of all evil. The means of modern capitalist production are the source of inequity, environmental destruction and splintered communities. Within these groups there it is the rare professionals who aims to correct the externalities of corporations not through picket signs or protests but through a focused …
4 Sustainability Frameworks for Future-proof Companies and Products
A brief overview The change that is needed to become sustainable is fundamental and transformative. That is also likely the reason why we have seen so little of it. The danger of taking a narrow view on change for sustainability is that we keep improving the current state of affairs, which in itself is unsustainable. …