ESD.S43

Green Supply Chain Management

Graduate · Historical course

Spring 2014

The half-semester graduate course in Green Supply Chain Management will focus on the fundamental strategies, tools and techniques required to analyze and design environmentally sustainable supply chain systems. Topics covered include: Closed-loop supply chains, reverse logistics systems, carbon footprinting, life-cycle analysis and supply chain sustainability strategy. Class sessions will combine presentations, case discussions and guest speakers. All students will work on a course-long team project that critically evaluates the environmental supply chain strategy of an industry or a publicly traded company. Grades will be based on class participation, case study assignments and the team project.

Readings

Rogers, Dale S., and Ronald Tibben‐Lembke. “ An Examination of Reverse Logistics Practices .” Journal of Business Logistics 22, no. 2 (2001): 129–48. ↗
Required
Guide, V., Kumar Neeraj, et al. “ Cellular Telephone Reuse: The ReCellular Inc. Case .” Managing Closed-Loop Supply Chains . Case: Part 6, (2005): 151–56. ↗
Required
Mark, K. “ Whirlpool Corporation: Reverse Logistics .” Richard Ivey School of Business. Case: 9B11D001, August 8, 2011. ↗
Required
“Life Cycle Assessment of Hand Drying Systems.” (PDF - 1.3MB) Material Systems Laboratory, MIT, 2011. ↗
Required
“The Guide to PAS 2050:2011 (Annex B through G).” (PDF - 2.9MB) British Standards, 2011. ↗
Required
Golden Agri Resources and Sustainability Case Study . Global Network for Advanced Management . Yale School of Management and National University of Singapore Business School. March, 2013. ↗
Required
Atasu, A., and L. Van Wassenhove. Getting to Grips With Take-Back Laws . IESE Insight, 2011. ↗
Required
Porter, Michael E., and Mark R. Kramer. “ Strategy and Society: The Link between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility .” Harvard Business Review 84, no. 12 (2006): 78–92. ↗
Required
SES #: 2 · LECTURE TOPICS: Invited Speaker: Gregor Thompson (GENCO) · SESSION PRE-READINGS: (1)
Reading assignment
SES #: 3 · LECTURE TOPICS: Reverse Logistics / Closing the Loop · SESSION PRE-READINGS: (2) & (3)
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SES #: 4 · LECTURE TOPICS: Carbon Footprinting (A. Craig) · SESSION PRE-READINGS: (4)
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SES #: 5 · LECTURE TOPICS: Life Cycle Analysis (A. Craig) · SESSION PRE-READINGS: (5) & (6)
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SES #: 7 · LECTURE TOPICS: Multi-stakeholder Engagements (A.Bateman) · SESSION PRE-READINGS: (7)
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SES #: 9 · LECTURE TOPICS: Invited Speaker: Noelle Selin – MIT Environmental Policy · SESSION PRE-READINGS: (8) & other readings distributed in class
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SES #: 10 · LECTURE TOPICS: Green SC Strategy (All) · SESSION PRE-READINGS: (9)
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Sources

Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
MIT OCW syllabus ↗
MIT OCW readings ↗
Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.