Sustainability in a Dynamic Global World

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This course explores the pressing issues in today's world pertaining to sustainability, and the associated challenges that managers and organizations face related to these issues internationally. Students will better understand how business impacts their stakeholders and communities in which they operate. Specifically, students will learn how to formulate strategic analyses, utilize data-driven approaches to business analytics, and assess the financial impact that our changing environment and climate has on firms in different international settings. In doing so, students will gain a better understanding of how managers foster organizational resilience in the face of dynamic shifts in governance and policy, technology, migration, the environment, and the broader social fabric in which an organization is embedded. The course involves interactions with international business leaders, entrepreneurs, consultants, and policy makers.