Sitar Mody | October 20, 2010
Fall is just beginning and the EDF Climate Corps team is already making the rounds to MBA schools and business and energy conferences across the country. We are looking to meet MBA students who are inspired by sustainability, and provide the opportunity to use their business skills to turn their inspiration into practice.
EDF Climate Corps trains a select group of MBA students in energy efficiency best practices, pairs them up with a Fortune 1000 company, and then sends them out into corporate America to uncover efficiencies that can save the environment and improve their host company's bottom line. Read more about our selection criteria here.
As I mentioned before, the EDF Climate Corps recruiting tour is already underway. Here are a few of the places we've had the opportunity to share some insight on the program:
On September 15, we visited University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, where 2010 EDF Climate Corps fellow at CSX Corporation, Matt Coleman, spoke with students about how his internship provided tangible experience to jump-start a career in corporate sustainability. Will Teichman, a member of Target's Environmental Sustainability team and Darden alum, added some valuable perspective from a participating company's point of view and noted that MBA internship opportunities in corporate responsibility, like EDF Climate Corps, are few and far between.
The following day at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the EDF Climate Corps team met with MBA and dual degree students interested in learning more about the opportunities available through EDF Climate Corps. Emily Martin, an EDF Climate Corps fellow at SAP this past summer, talked with her fellow classmates about the network she walked away with after participating in EDF Climate Corps. This is the network that many of our EDF Climate Corps alumni turn to in order to find like-minded colleagues forging successful pathways in corporate sustainability.
Then we traveled across the country to attend the National Black MBA Association conference in Los Angeles on September 23 and 24. There we met students with backgrounds from finance to marketing to operations, all looking to apply their MBA degrees to become leaders in making the business case for sustainability.
These are just a few of the places we've visited, and we're only getting started. We are excited to be attending the Net Impact Conference at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business on October 28-30. We will be at the Net Impact Expo all day on Friday, hosting a reception for prospective fellows on Friday evening at Vinology starting at 6:30pm, and sharing the experiences of alumni fellows at a panel on Saturday at 12:30pm. If you're in town, please join us at any of these activities to learn more about how you can get involved with EDF Climate Corps.
We will be visiting many more MBA schools and conferences this fall. Check out our events calendar and come by and say hello because we are eager to meet you!
You can learn more about the application process on our website, don't forget to apply by January 11, 2011 to become an EDF Climate Corps fellow and a corporate change agent.
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