Location
Streatham Campus, Exeter
The University of Exeter Business School has joined forces with WWF, the global conservation organisation, to develop the One Planet MBA. Our vision is that the One Planet MBA will be a traditional MBA with all the expected ingredients but global in outlook, developing leaders and managers capable of running organisations in a culturally diverse, resource-constrained world, influenced by radically different values and concerns from those of the recent past.
"One Planet" means a very specific kind of education. It refers to the fact that business planning of the future must recognise that we only have one planet’s worth of resources, yet we are currently collectively using over one and a third planets, a figure which increases daily. The combination of very significant and asymmetric population growth over the next thirty years, the inevitable tendency for increased consumption of natural resources, and expected developments in the political economy make it essential that business people be educated in a manner, and with a curriculum, very different from that of the past. The One Planet MBA will address this.
You will develop the business skills upon which MBAs have traditionally been based but will demonstrate a fully comprehensive grasp of global issues and cultures. The One Planet MBA will be a distinctive and innovative model for management education, transforming paradigms and priorities in the student experience, curriculum, and educational processes.
You will find many opportunities for physical and mental challenges during the One Planet MBA programme. For the past nine years, our MBA students have achieved great success in the annual MBA Regatta. The event is run in the summer and the programme of sailing and hospitality offers participants an excellent opportunity to interact with peers and prospective employers whilst participating in a fantastic and competitive sporting event.
Practising managers in MBA programmes from innovative business schools around the world will come together for a week in Mexico City to focus on learning from their own managerial experience. This is a unique opportunity to develop your managerial skills with experienced managers and a dedicated faculty from around the world in an exceptional environment. This is a special opportunity to take a week out of the MBA classroom in order to probe, reflect and analyse the processes of managing itself and how it takes shape in different parts of the world. All the participants will be experienced managers with current and challenging roles – that is the main criterion for entry to the programme; and faculty are selected for their ability to work with you on your current managerial challenges.
