Translating Sustainable Business Practices

3 units

The current opportunities for creating stakeholder value by embracing sustainable business practices may be the largest since the industrial revolution. In this course, students will learn about those opportunities, as well as the risks of inaction for generations to come. The goal of this course is to empower students with an understanding of how to validate the evolving and increasingly vital concepts within sustainability and resiliency, and to then direct that understanding towards business regeneration. Students will learn what it means for a business to prioritize planetary limits and nurture their social license to operate. The class will translate often less-familiar key performance indicators into the languages of the many participants who create the global economy. The times are changing-sustainable business is fast becoming just business. We will be the change makers. This class does not expect any prior knowledge of business concepts or experience with traditional business skills.