MBA in Sustainability
Focusing on personal development and business leadership in sustainable practices?
The Creative Enterprise curriculum offers coursework in business management, integrating sustainable practices, eco-conscious values, innovative technologies, traditional wisdom, corporate social responsibility, systemic thinking, ecological economics, and social entrepreneurship. This degree program provides students with the opportunity to activate core capacities and develop skills which are relevant for pursuing alternative paths in sustainable business.
The Creative Enterprise program takes a distinct approach to Transformative Learning, emphasizing the transformation of identity, as well as that of personal and professional life. The program underscores the integration of sustainable practices, strategic decision-making, and community-building as critical dimensions for effective leadership in the complex, rapidly changing global business environment.
Green MBA
Seeking a masters degree that enables effective sustainable business practices?
The Creative Enterprise curriculum emphasizes sustainability-focused business courses as well as core courses that support the student’s evolving relationship to responsible corporate conduct.
- Part-time, full-time, and accelerated options available.
- Designed to prepare students for work in sustainability-focused business roles or as environmental consultants.
- Diverse concentrations enable personalized degree paths in areas like sustainable finance or corporate social responsibility.
- Flexible learning formats and individualized academic advising.
ESG and Sustainability
Looking to lead in the realm of sustainable business practices?
The MBA in Creative Enterprise curriculum offers innovative coursework in business management and sustainability to prepare students for leadership roles, including core, sustainability-focused, and research courses. The core curriculum provides a foundation for the ESG and sustainability courses, supporting the student’s evolving commitment to sustainable business practices.
- Complete in as little as 18 months on the accelerated path, with standard and part-time degree paths also available.
- Alumni often pursue leadership roles in sustainability or ESG consulting.
- Concentrations available are aligned with: Organizational Development, Project and Process management, Strategic Business Leadership, and more.
Social Entrepreneurship Degree
Ready to pursue a research-focused degree that promotes Social Entrepreneurship?
The MBA in Creative Enterprise curriculum offers coursework drawing on sustainable business practices, innovative thinking, creative problem-solving, social impact strategies, systemic solutions, inclusive economics, societal transformations, and ethical leadership.
By emphasizing research, entrepreneurial, and cultural praxis skills, the Social Entrepreneurship program aims at finding solutions for social issues to maximize one’s social impact. The research coursework prepares students for the completion of an original research project or a social venture plan in order to bring theory and practice together.
Purpose at Work
In order to be prepared for engaging the unprecedented complexities emerging in the world today, the profession of business requires new vision and new perspectives that change the way we see the world to bring about a flourishing future. To follow this call to Creative Enterprise requires the development of our individual and collective complexity capabilities, for example the capabilities of self-awareness, collaboration, dialogue, negotiation, and co-creation. These capabilities are critical for the success of entrepreneurs, organizational leaders, and managers in this age of technical, social, and dynamic complexity. In realizing ourselves as a whole person, we can begin to see a world comprised of whole systems. Your inner call to have a generative impact on the world as an entrepreneur, manager, and executive can be enabled by the capabilities you will develop through the MBA in Creative Enterprise.
There are five dimensions integrated throughout the MBA curriculum. Creative Enterprise occurs at the intersection of these dimensions and offers a more holistic perspective of each dimension in relationship to the others.
These five Meridian MBA dimensions are:
- Transforming business innovation to integrate and engage social, cultural, and technological challenges.
- Building purpose and development-driven organization.
- Engendering Business as a means of regenerating the commons.
- Empowering companies and non-profits through the theory and practice of living systems.
- Actualizing entrepreneurship that is locally and globally generative.
Willis Harman — Author of Global Mind Change and Co-founder of the World Business Academy
Professional Future
The Meridian MBA curriculum is designed to prepare graduates for a professional future in the contexts noted below, with which the MBA concentrations are specifically aligned.
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Project and Process Management
- Operations Management
- Human Resources Management
- Management Consulting
- Executive, Developmental, and Performance Coaching
- Strategic Leadership
- Organizational Development
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Meridian's MBA in Creative Enterprise degree is designed to prepare graduates for a professional future in the contexts noted below, with which the concentrations are specifically aligned.
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Concentrations
The Business Psychology concentration at Meridian is designed for those who seek to redefine the landscape of organizational behavior and leadership through a lens of group facilitation and psychological depth.
The Complexity Management concentration emphasizes coursework aligned with the practice of strategic and operational management at small, mid, and large scale, across sectors.
The Developmental Coaching concentration emphasizes coursework aligned with practice in contexts such as executive coaching, developmental assessment, and management of deliberately developmental organizations.
The Generative Entrepreneurship concentration emphasizes coursework aligned with developing the capabilities required for launching new entrepreneurial initiatives.
The Organizational Development concentration emphasizes coursework aligned with the practice of organizational leadership and development in various institutional domains, like: Business, Non-profits (NGOs); and government including sectors such as education, law, and the arts.
The Transformative Leadership concentration emphasizes coursework aligned with practice in contexts such as executive coaching, developmental assessment, and management of deliberately developmental organizations.
The Transformative Innovation concentration emphasizes coursework aligned with the development of next practices that drive systemic change, social impact, and sustainable value creation.
The Business Psychology concentration at Meridian is designed for those who seek to redefine the landscape of organizational behavior and leadership through a lens of group facilitation and psychological depth.
The Complexity Management concentration emphasizes coursework aligned with the practice of strategic and operational management at small, mid, and large scale, across sectors.
The Developmental Coaching concentration emphasizes coursework aligned with practice in contexts such as executive coaching, developmental assessment, and management of deliberately developmental organizations.
The Generative Entrepreneurship concentration emphasizes coursework aligned with developing the capabilities required for launching new entrepreneurial initiatives.
The Organizational Development concentration emphasizes coursework aligned with the practice of organizational leadership and development in various institutional domains, like: Business, Non-profits (NGOs); and government including sectors such as education, law, and the arts.
The Transformative Leadership concentration emphasizes coursework aligned with practice in contexts such as executive coaching, developmental assessment, and management of deliberately developmental organizations.
The Transformative Innovation concentration emphasizes coursework aligned with the development of next practices that drive systemic change, social impact, and sustainable value creation.
Claudia Meglin — Meridian MBA Alumnus
Academic Structure
Meridian’s academic structure gives students the flexibility to navigate the University’s curricular architecture in ways that match their passions, professional goals, and other life commitments.
The structure is designed to serve a diverse student body, who live around the globe, have varied cultural and clinical visions for their careers, and are at different stages in their professional journey.
Students enroll in a degree program, can elect a concentration, and register for one or multiple courses each quarter. In addition to core courses for the specific degree program and anchor courses that represent the Transformative Learning intent of Meridian’s curriculum, students select elective courses that align with their Meridian concentration, background, and career path.
Learning Formats
Online Format
The online learning format allows students to complete 100% of their degree requirements remotely from anywhere in the world. Grounded in a distinctive faculty-led model, Meridian’s dynamic online learning platform provides maximum flexibility while maintaining high levels of engagement.
Hybrid Format
Meridian’s hybrid learning format integrates online courses with in-person classes at the Los Angeles Campus. This format combines an innovative online learning approach with face-to-face engagement with faculty, staff, and peers while offering access to co-working spaces and campus resources.
Introducing Unique Impact Scholarships
Available to Meridian University students worldwide, Meridian University's Impact Scholarships represent the University's commitment to supporting graduates to take transformative action in the fields of Business, Education, Leadership, and Psychology.
- The Meridian Social Entrepreneurship Scholarship
- The Meridian Developmental Coaching Scholarship
- The Meridian Collective Trauma Transformation Scholarship
Accreditation and Financial Aid
Meridian University is a degree-granting higher education institution accredited by the Senior Commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). As an accreditor, WASC is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. WASC is also an accreditor of the University of California, Berkeley, UCLA, and Stanford University.
Meridian is approved by the U.S. Department of Education for participation in the Federal Student Aid programs as well as by the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs for the training of veterans and other eligible persons.
The University is approved by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to provide form I-20 to eligible international students, enabling travel to and stay in the United States.
Meridian offers institutional financial aid to qualified international students.
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