This is a Related Course of the MOT Program.
Effective management now takes into account a wide range of criteria relating to the financial, environmental, and social implications of business operations. Research indicates that a strategic commitment to Sustainability has clear implications for the corporate bottom line. Companies continue to struggle with the fundamental challenge of embedding sustainability into their day-to–day business operations and management. One key reason they struggle with embedding sustainability is a lack of metrics. Without measurement how do you know if you are improving? Without common metrics, how can you compare your operations to those of another?
This course exposes students to the theories, frameworks, and cases for measuring sustainability and investigates "good practices" of companies who have implemented sustainability measures. We will explore metrics in the financial, environmental and social aspects of sustainability through readings, discussions, debates, expert guests and lectures. Therefore attendance and participation are critical.
In addition, students will look at real products and companies to evaluate how they stack up against the ‘sustainability competition’ in a variety of business sectors. In the end a student should come away with an ability to critically evaluate and apply the priority sustainability metrics for a product, company or entire business sector.
This course presents a great opportunity for future business leaders to move from theory into practice with real-world, complex, multidisciplinary sustainability problems.
Course Syllabus (pdf)
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