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MANA 374

Sustainable Management

3 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2026

Topics

  • Stakeholder management
  • Sustainability governance
  • Organizational integration
  • Performance reporting
  • Business cases
  • Sustainability returns

Readings

  • R. Sheen and A. Gallo. HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case. Harvard Business Review Press (2015).
    Required
  • Assigned: Carroll, A. B., Brown, J. A., and Buchholtz, A. K. (2018). Business & Society: Ethics, Sustainability & Stakeholder Management. Cengage; chapter 2, pp. 30–70, and chapter 3, pp. 71–100.
    Listed reading
  • Assigned: Mitchell, R. K., Agle, B. R., and Wood, D. J. (1997). Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of Who and What Really Counts. Academy of Management Review 22(4), 853–886.
    Listed reading
  • Assigned: Morris, J., and Baddache, F. (2012). Back to Basics: How to Make Stakeholder Engagement Meaningful for Your Company. BSR.
    Listed reading
  • Assigned: Singer, T. (2016). The Seven Pillars of Sustainability Leadership: CEO Business Implications. The Conference Board.
    Listed reading
  • Assigned: Tobin, D. (2017). The Benefit Corporation Should Become a Legitimate Business Model. The Globe and Mail.
    Listed reading
  • Assigned: United Nations Global Compact (2015). Roadmap for Integrated Sustainability.
    Listed reading
  • Assigned: Polman, P., and Bhattacharya, C. B. (2016). Engaging Employees to Create a Sustainable Business. Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fall.
    Listed reading
  • Assigned: Thomson Reuters (2017). The Sustainability Reporter: A Deep Dive into the Challenges and Benefits of New Corporate Reporting Processes.
    Listed reading
  • Assigned: Clark, G. L., Feiner, A., and Viehs, M. (2015). From the Stockholder to the Stakeholder: How Sustainability Can Drive Financial Outperformance.
    Listed reading
  • Assigned: Whelan, T., and Fink, C. (2016). The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability.
    Listed reading
  • Assigned: Sheen and Gallo (2015), HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case; chapters 1–8 (pp. 3–46), 9–11 (pp. 49–84), and 12–17 (pp. 87–117).
    Listed reading
  • Assigned: Atz, U., Van Holt, T., Douglas, E., and Whelan, T. (2019). The Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI): Monetizing Financial Benefits of Sustainability Actions in Companies. Review of Business 39(2), 1–31; assigned portions pp. 5–6, 8–11, 16–17.
    Listed reading
  • Optional further resource: Driving Sustainable Decisions, approach description and case studies (no full bibliographic details given).
    Listed reading
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