Strategies for Environmental and Social Sustainability

Catalog description

This graduate level course provides an overview of topics related to environmental and social sustainability with a focus on how strategy and innovation at the business level help to create sustainable societies and infrastructures. This course has three major objectives: to increase students’ knowledge of key global sustainability related trends; to teach students to think strategically on environmental and social challenges; to help students understand the promises and limits of modern business approaches to sustainability. The course combines talks, case studies, and class discussions on management theory, tools, and frameworks shaping the business-environment interface, and evolving requirements for business success. Several guest lecturers will discuss how they have addressed sustainability within their company.