{"id":1613,"date":"2018-09-10T08:23:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T12:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2018-09-07T22:03:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T02:03:12","slug":"planning-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2018\/09\/10\/planning-for-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning for &#8220;Launch&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sustainable Innovation MBA is a unique program in many ways. Above all, it is reinventing business education to produce leaders who aim to solve the world&#8217;s most challenging economic, environmental, and social problems through the lens of enterprise and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p>And, because it&#8217;s a one-year accelerated MBA, students begin their career exploration and planning right from the first day, aiming to develop the skills, networks, and insights to &#8220;launch&#8221; into opportunities post-graduation &#8212; just eleven months from now.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, as part of our innovative &#8220;Launch&#8221; workshop series, students spent an afternoon building the foundations of self-discovery, articulating strengths and weaknesses, and beginning to think about various potential career pathways. Here&#8217;s a peek:<\/p>\n<p><em>Developing an inventory of necessary leadership traits:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1614 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2018\/09\/00100dPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20180907142714162_COVER.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2018\/09\/00100dPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20180907142714162_COVER.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2018\/09\/00100dPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20180907142714162_COVER-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2018\/09\/00100dPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20180907142714162_COVER-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2018\/09\/00100dPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20180907142714162_COVER-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Meryl and Matt, building and practicing a personal elevator pitch:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1615 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2018\/09\/00100dPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20180907144000184_COVER.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2018\/09\/00100dPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20180907144000184_COVER.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2018\/09\/00100dPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20180907144000184_COVER-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2018\/09\/00100dPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20180907144000184_COVER-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2018\/09\/00100dPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20180907144000184_COVER-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Getting support and encouragement from the cohort&#8217;s honorary member:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1616 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2018\/09\/00100dPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20180907144144057_COVER.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2018\/09\/00100dPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20180907144144057_COVER.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2018\/09\/00100dPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20180907144144057_COVER-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2018\/09\/00100dPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20180907144144057_COVER-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2018\/09\/00100dPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20180907144144057_COVER-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sustainable Innovation MBA is a unique program in many ways. Above all, it is reinventing business education to produce leaders who aim to solve the world&#8217;s most challenging economic, environmental, and social problems through the lens of enterprise and entrepreneurship. And, because it&#8217;s a one-year accelerated MBA, students begin their career exploration and planning &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2018\/09\/10\/planning-for-launch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Planning for &#8220;Launch&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[163314,46457,26210,26],"tags":[6901],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-us","category-jobs","category-class","category-learning","tag-networking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-q1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}