Course Content

Week 1: Course introduction & overview

  • Flipped classroom design
  • Assignment expectations
  • Blog and other resources
    

Week 2: What is sustainability?

  • Earth systems and their limits
  • The Era of the Anthropocene
  • Climate change
  • Biggest sustainability challenges
    

Week 3: From linear to circular economy

  • Production and consumption
  • Ecological footprints
  • Drivers of business sustainability

Week 4: Role of business in sustainability

  • Pillars of sustainable development
  • Global initiatives
  • Industry initiatives
  • What is the responsibility of business?
    

Week 5: Leadership and value

  • Individual values and business sustainability
  • Corporate cultures for sustainability
  • Organizational structures for sustainability
  • Corporate Citizenship
    

Week 6: Key business models for sustainability

  • Triple bottom line
  • Natural- resources based view
  • The natural step
  • Mitigation hierarchy (biodiversity)
  • True Business Sustainability

Week 7: Sustainable production frameworks

  • Closed loop production
  • Product life extension
  • Sharing economy
    

Week 8: Sustainable supply chain management

  • Reverse logistics
  • Green supply chain management
  • Life cycle assessment tool
  • Industry symbiosis
    

Week 9: Design for environment frameworks

  • Eco- innovation
  • Cradle- to- cradle
  • Biomimicry
    

Week 10: Green governance

  • Social and environmental accounting & reporting
  • Sustainability performance management
  • Greenwashing & reputation management
    

Week 11: Stakeholder management

  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Frameworks for analyzing stakeholders
  • Frameworks for managing stakeholders
    

Week 12: Future of business & sustainability

  • Student presentations

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