COVER STORY
Modeling Sustainability
In the College of Business, students learn that ethics and profit go hand in hand.
When Katie Parker (MSBA, ’12) moved across the country to pursue her MBA at SF State’s College of Business (CoB), she had no idea the school was nationally ranked for its focus on sustainability — nor, at the time, would she have cared.
“I had never heard of ‘sustainability’ before,” says Parker, who had majored in math and statistics in college and begun her career as an analyst for an insurance company. She simply wanted to continue working with numbers, figured that the credential would lead to a higher-paying job in the same field and chose SF State for its great location and its program in decision science, which she defines as supporting management decision-making with numbers. Everything worked out despite her initial ignorance. “It ended up being the best decision ever because I gained a soul in the world of business,” says Parker, who now works as a senior supply chain analyst at ...
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