Environmentally Sustainable Business Practices

Catalog description

This course covers the process of bringing new innovations and ideas to fruition. By emphasizing where sources of funding (grants, governmental programs and incentives, universities and school systems, philanthropic organizations) can be combined with markets and organizations to take ideas from the research and development phases to being market-ready, this course combines theoretical approaches to market innovation with hands-on experience and practice. This course will include a minimum of 15 hours of field-based learning. With a firm focus on the common components of business practices globally, this course explores the relationship between sustainable business practices and environmentalism. Students will examine business practices that combine present-day approaches to prioritizing the environment, comparing systems across the globe. Students will compare business strategies and evaluate actions that lead businesses to be more resilient and sustainable. Students will also appraise project management strategies within an organization, including the triple bottom line, from a multicultural perspective.