DEL: Green Development

Catalog description

This course will cover green building, smart cities, and related cleantech innovations. Students will explore these topics through the lenses of business strategy, corporate sustainability drivers, challenges and risks, global megatrends, investor perspectives, entrepreneurship, measures of success, and implementation tools. Teaching methods will include case studies, practice-oriented assignments, readings from industry and thought leaders, structured group discussions, and skill building such as professional memo writing. Open to Duke Environmental Leadership Master of Environmental Management students only. Department consent required for all other students.