Learn to create and manage innovative for-profit and non-profit social and sustainable enterprises designed to address social and environmental change. Develop leadership skills. Start your own business. Gain a practical foundation in accounting, finance, marketing, and other disciplines needed to succeed in business and the larger world. Appreciate the stories and characteristics of successful social and sustainability entrepreneurs from around the globe and in your neighborhood.
Join us in an education that doesn’t just change your life — it gives you the tools to change the world.
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Sample Program
Business Entrepreneurship Fundamentals
Offered Fall 2018–Winter 2019
In this introductory program, you'll develop the skills and insight needed to conduct and understand the relationship between business and society. The program includes fundamental work in entrepreneurship, leadership, management, ethics, quantitative work, economics, accounting, income taxes, financial statement and ratio analysis, as well as the concept of time value of money.
At the end of the program, you'll gain understanding of how a successful business operates. You'll be better equipped to work with financial data and procedures in the conduct of business and public policy and for the quantitative requirements of businesses and governments.
View this program in the catalog.
A student prepares for lecture and discussion in the program Business and Management Strategies for the Private and Public Sectors.
After Graduation
Greener Sam Schroeder’s co-owned business, the Olympia Coffee Roasting Company, was named Micro Roaster of the Year by Roast Magazine.
Evergreen Business graduates are prepared to do business. They create their own enterprises and work with or consult with others in founding or growing organizations. Our programs provide a solid foundation for graduate studies in business administration, public administration, and law. Our graduates are leaders in the private sector, government, and nonprofit organizations.
Facilities & Resources
Evergreen Business graduates create their own enterprises and work with or consult with others in founding or growing organizations.
Evergreen offers students plenty of opportunities to gain practical, hands-on experience in business.
Students run several enterprises on campus, including the Flaming Eggplant café and a farm stand that sells produce from the college’s Organic Farm.
The Greener Bookstore provides student employment and career training. KAOS, Evergreen’s licensed radio station, depends on volunteers to operate, and the college’s newspaper, the Cooper Point Journal is staffed entirely by students (on both the editorial and business sides).
Student Activities gives students the awesome ability to start their own clubs. In the past, students have established business-oriented clubs such as the Center for Sustainable Entrepreneurship, which helped students learn about pursuing business careers.
Students can also find and connect with Greeners in many areas of business, both locally and around the world, through the online Alumni Entrepreneurs Directory and through ongoing campus events.
| Title | Expertise |
|---|---|
| Benson-Quaziena, Marcella | human and organizational systems |
| Buchman, Andrew | music composition |
| Hirakawa, Takaaki | |
| Kennedy, Cynthia | leadership |
| Khaleghi, Dariush | Leadership, Management, Organizational Psychology and Behavior, and Human Resources Management |
| Muehleisen, David | sustainable agriculture, entomology |
| Nivala, Melissa | mathematics |