Gifford Pinchot III

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Gifford Pinchot III, grandson of the American conservationist by the same name (Gifford Pinchot), is a man of many interests. After earning an honors economics degree at Harvard, Pinchot sought to understand human social behavior in its complexity by studying sociology, biology, and neurophysiology at Johns Hopkins University. Told by successive academic advisors that he was in the wrong discipline, Pinchot took up a variety of careers, including organic dairy farming, blacksmithing, writing correspondence courses in entrepreneurship, and consulting. Somewhere in the mix, he stumbled upon sustainable business development.

Co-founder and president of both Pinchot and Co. and the Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI) and author of the best-selling book "," Pinchot's influence on business could one day prove as important as his grand- father's influence on the creation and preservation of America’s public lands.

Pinchot, along with his wife Elizabeth and co-founder Sherman Severin, started the [The Bainbridge Graduate Institute] in 2002. BGI’s purpose is to transform business toward sustainability and social justice through business education. BGI offers an MBA program with a focus on sustainable innovation and management training. The school, which has grown to over 100 students, shares its curricula with other business schools seeking to incorporate sustainability into their programs.

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