N-BE-MEM - Master of Environmental Management - Business and Environment

The Business and Environment (BE) Program provides students with training on the challenges that private sector organizations face in engaging with the natural environment. Students learn about business organization, the fundamentals of finance, and how multinational firms and small and medium enterprises address environmental, economic, and social sustainability imperatives. The BE curriculum enables students to customize their educational experience to meet their interests and career goals, whether they involve a focus on supply chains, natural resource finance, compliance, consulting, strategy, or product innovation.

Students take a series of required and elective courses to gain foundations to incorporate analytical tools to evaluate environmental and economic trade-offs of both organizational and technological innovations. Students also gain hands-on experience through client- based consulting projects. These projects leverage tools such as financial, strategic, and life-cycle analysis in preparation for a career focused on the unique role businesses play with respect to the environment.

Prerequisites: calculus, statistics, and microeconomics (or general economics that focuses on microeconomics rather than macroeconomics) required.

For more detailed information about this program, including specific prerequisites and degree requirements, see nicholas.duke.edu/academics/masters-programs/master-environmental-management/business-environment.