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Business Sustainability Strategy: Technology and Management

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Overview

Enhance your ability to navigate intricate sustainability issues, and design a roadmap for implementing sustainable business practices that drive positive change.

On completion of this course, you’ll walk away with: The skills to navigate complex sustainability issues, with insight from the holistic PROMISE framework that examines the impact of sustainability goals and choices. A strategy for engaging stakeholders in sustainability challenges and motivating for positive, long-lasting change in your organization. Insights from MIT faculty and guest experts on sustainability challenges within businesses, and an understanding of how technology can drive sustainability solutions. The ability to navigate the tension between implementing business sustainability initiatives and increasing financial performance.

Syllabus

  • Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus
  • Module 1: World challenges: Environment, inequality, poverty, and social well-being
  • Module 2: The standard playbook: Managing for sustainability
  • Module 3: The PROMISE framework: Tensions, trade-offs, and impact
  • Module 4: Next-generation strategies for sustainability: Technology and innovation
  • Module 5: Market failures and institutions: Changing the rules of the game
  • Module 6: Management for the 21st century: Agents of change

Taught by

Roberto Rigobon and Jason Jay

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