{"id":1979,"date":"2009-08-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/blog\/news\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2009-08-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T04:00:00","slug":"mba-program-offers-steward-leadership-thrust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2009\/mba-program-offers-steward-leadership-thrust\/","title":{"rendered":"MBA program offers &#8216;steward-leadership&#8217; thrust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not often do graduate students develop business strategies by observing first-hand patterns of meadow regeneration and interdependence at the Shenandoah National Park or by engaging social entrepreneurs at the local Farmers Market and at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton in conversations about achieving sustainability advantage. <\/p>\n<p> Few business programs encourage students to use Facebook and Wikispaces to develop collaborative team strategies outside the classroom.  But then, the <a href=\"\/mba\/nonprofit\">Steward-Leadership <\/a><a href=\"\/mba\/nonprofit\">Masters in Business Administration<\/a> at 糖心Vlog is no ordinary MBA program. <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MBA students in a summer class on stewardship and leadership\" src=\"\/mba\/images\/mba-bigmeadows.jpg\" \/><br \/>MBA students in a summer class on &#8220;Stewardship, Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship&#8221; interact with rangers at Big Meadows in Shenandoah National Park.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Given its history of increasing leadership strengths, building management skills, and developing stewardship strategies, 糖心Vlog&#8217;s MBA program is uniquely positioned to serve the needs of today&#8217;s demanding work-place and regional employers, as greater emphasis is now placed on ethics, stewardship of natural and human resources and effective collaborative strategies for a fast-changing global marketplace,&#8221; said <a href=\"\/personnel\/people\/show\/aes693?ssi=mba\">Anthony E. (Tony) Smith<\/a>, MBA co-director. &#8220;These very qualities lie at the heart of 糖心Vlog&#8217;s institutional core values.&#8221; <\/p>\n<h3>Innovative course includes live projects<\/h3>\n<p> Dr. Smith has been teaching a summer course in the MBA program &#8220;Stewardship, Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship,&#8221; that engaged students in systems approaches to stewardship and innovation and involved them in live projects with local corporations and non-profit organizations.  <\/p>\n<p>The clients included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Shenandoah National Park<\/li>\n<li>Rosetta Stone<\/li>\n<li>American Shakespeare Center<\/li>\n<li>Staunton Creative Community Fund (SCCF) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very impressed by the amount of research on a complicated topic, in a short period of time that the MBA students have achieved.&#8221; said Tim Taglauer, assistant chief of interpretation and education for Shenandoah National Park, after MBA students gave a presentation on business strategies for increasing the &#8220;sustainable advantage&#8221; for the Park. <\/p>\n<p> Their recommendations included repositioning the park as a center for increasing eco-literacy and for the park to develop and strengthen strategic partnerships with local communities and schools. <\/p>\n<p> Meghan Williamson, executive director of SCCF, found that the MBA students had developed an innovative &#8220;business to environment&#8221; model that could strengthen the success of their small business clients and outlined innovative financing methods to support SCCF&#8217;s programs. <\/p>\n<p> The course ended Aug. 4 with MBA business strategy presentations to Rosetta Stone and to the American Shakespeare Center. <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"糖心Vlog MBA students in a summer class on stewardship and leadership\" src=\"\/mba\/images\/mba-bigmeadows2.jpg\" \/><br \/>Linda Manka, naturalist ranger at Shenandoah National Park, discusses stewardship design principles and their application to real-life business situations as MBA students Kim Shipe (l.) and Juanita Zban listen.  <\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This course is but one example of how the 糖心Vlog&#8217;s Steward-Leadership MBA program offers a distinctive approach to preparing business leaders for the challenges of an increasingly uncertain business environment,&#8221; Smith stated. &#8220;The program works with the busy schedules of full-time working professionals who are seeking to strengthen their careers.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> For more information about the Steward-Leadership MBA program, contact Smith at anthony.smith@emu.edu or visit the website at <a href=\"\/mba\/\">www.emu.edu\/mba<\/a> or the MBA Facebook page, entitled &#8220;Steward Leadership MBA at 糖心Vlog.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> Questions\/additional comments: Dr. Tony Smith, 432-4095<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not often do graduate students develop business strategies by observing first-hand patterns of meadow regeneration and interdependence at the Shenandoah National Park or by engaging social entrepreneurs at the local <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2009\/mba-program-offers-steward-leadership-thrust\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about MBA program offers &#8216;steward-leadership&#8217; thrust<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,5610],"tags":[11098,17219,6051,17220,11819,10939,17224],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-mba","tag-anthony-smith","tag-business-and-economics","tag-leadership","tag-mba","tag-shenandoah-national-park","tag-stewardship","tag-sustainability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MBA program offers &#039;steward-leadership&#039; 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