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Chocolate sustainability is not the career path of your typical MBA graduate, but I use what I learned at business school every day. Even though I work for a large corporation—Mars is the fifth-biggest private company in the U.S.—the sustainability effort is pioneering new practices all the time.
We are essentially a startup within a big company, and a lot of what we’re doing has never been done before at scale. This means I have to be entrepreneurial. I helped craft a road map that ensures our cocoa sustainability investments are going to the right places. Now I lead the effort to evaluate and monitor our programs and capture insights to make us more effective.
Business school gave me the confidence to lead a diverse team—an area my Sloan professors would call “organizational behavior.” I have had to learn how to navigate the company effectively, how to find advocates within the organization, and how to come up with strategies that help achieve our goals in the most efficient way possible. My job requires that I work closely with geneticists, agronomists, global policy experts, and others with highly technical skills.
Source: www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-14/mars-cocoa-sustainability-manager-fights-a-global-chocolate-famine
Chocolate sustainability is not the career path of your typical MBA graduate, but I use what I learned at business school every day. Even though I work for a large corporation—Mars is the fifth-biggest private company in the U.S.—the sustainability effort is pioneering new practices all the time.
We are essentially a startup within a big company, and a lot of what we’re doing has never been done before at scale. This means I have to be entrepreneurial. I helped craft a road map that ensures our cocoa sustainability investments are going to the right places. Now I lead the effort to evaluate and monitor our programs and capture insights to make us more effective.
Business school gave me the confidence to lead a diverse team—an area my Sloan professors would call “organizational behavior.” I have had to learn how to navigate the company effectively, how to find advocates within the organization, and how to come up with strategies that help achieve our goals in the most efficient way possible. My job requires that I work closely with geneticists, agronomists, global policy experts, and others with highly technical skills.
Source: www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-14/mars-cocoa-sustainability-manager-fights-a-global-chocolate-famine
