July 20, 1998
Contact: Elaine Ruggieri
	  (804) 924-3220

U.VA.'S DARDEN RECOGNIZED FOR RAISING ENVIRONMENTAL
AWARENESS IN M.B.A. CLASSES

	The University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business
Administration has won national recognition for incorporating concern
over the environment into its M.B.A. program.
	Darden was one of eight business schools recently honored by the
Washington-based World Resources Institute, an international research
organization focusing on issues of the environment and sustainability.
	The schools were chosen from a national survey of top M.B.A.
programs by the World Resources Institute, which released its findings
in a new report, "Grey Pinstripes with Green Ties: M.B.A. Programs Where
the Environment Matters." This was the institute's first effort to
compile and publish such information.
	U.Va. ranked in the top quartile, "Programs at the Cutting
Edge," along with (in alphabetical order): George Washington University,
New York University (Stern), Northwestern University (Kellogg),
University of Michigan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Kenan
Flagler), University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and the University of
Washington.
	In related news, Darden faculty members have shaped and
contributed to an upcoming book on "The Business of Consumption:
Environmental Ethics and the Global Economy."
	"Companies are finally beginning to realize that environmental
consciousness is to their economic advantage," says Patricia H. Werhane,
Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics at Darden. Werhane co-edited the
book with a philosophy professor at the University of Windsor, Ontario,
Canada.
	The book is a collection of essays that explores ethical issues
in consumption and their impact on environmental sustainability,
economic development and free enterprise. Students and faculty from
Darden and the U.Va. schools of architecture and engineering were
invited to contribute.
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	"The book is designed for academics, including students of
ethics, public policy and economic development and we hope that
practicing managers will read it as well," Werhane says.
	The collection also explores international concerns about global
regulations and questions whether environmental sustainability, economic
development and free enterprise are compatible values for the future.

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	For more information about environmental ethics and business,
call Patricia Werhane at (804) 924-4840; or, for more information about
Darden's program, call Alan R. Beckenstein, professor of business
administration, at (804) 924 4805. Television reporters should contact
the TV News Office at (804) 924-7550.