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The achievement of balanced economic, social, and environmental development, as expressed in the UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, is recognised as one of humanity's major challenges today. What is less clear is whether and how organisations can create business opportunities and value for their stakeholders while dealing with such challenges.
In this course, thought leaders from a wide range of management and economic fields demonstrate how to assess and capitalise on the opportunities presented by global emergencies. They will provide ideas and examples on how to manage the transition process to realise the value creation potential of corporate sustainability for all involved stakeholders, as well as new ways to understand the purpose and logic of success of the business enterprise in this new context.
Learning objectives :
- Recognize the macroeconomic and microeconomic consequences of climate change, poverty, hunger, gender or race discrimination, and a lack of communication between the state, civil societies, and businesses, among other things.
- Recognize why it is critical for businesses to address sustainability issues in order to generate more and better business opportunities.
- Discover how each individual, organisation, and system can begin to analyse their behaviours and shift toward more sustainable practises and models.
Syllabus :
1. Understanding the Sustainability Challenge: the Systemic Level
- Welcome to the Course – Maurizio Zollo
- Short-Termism and its Long-term Consequences – Maurizio Zollo
- Short-Termism and its Long-term Consequences: Introduction to the Fishbank Simulation – Maurizio Zollo
- Understanding the Tragedy of the Commons – Maurizio Zollo
- A New, Research-based, Approach to the Development of a Sustainability Mindset – Maurizio Zollo (optional: meditation podcasts in the Download section)
- The Sustainable Development Goals and their Relevance for Business – Valentina Mele
- Climate Change and its Economic Implications – Valentina Bosetti
- Industrial Ecology – Fabio Iraldo
- Poverty and Income Inequalities – Eliana La Ferrara, Maurizio Zollo
- Gender Equality and Sustainability – Paola Profeta
2. Understanding the Sustainability Challenge: the Business Level
- What is a Sustainable Enterprise? (part 1) – Maurizio Zollo
- What is a Sustainable Enterprise? (part 2) – Maurizio Zollo
- The Purpose of the Corporation – Nicola Misani
- The Stakeholder-based View of the Firm – Nicola Misani
- The Shareholder-Stakeholder Debate – Nicolai J. Foss, Maurizio Zollo
- Corporate Governance – Xing Kelly Chen
- Business Ethics & Sustainability – Maurizio Zollo, Celia Moore
- Responsible Leadership – Massimo Magni
- International Implementation of Sustainability – Anne Jacqueminet
- Roundtable on the Nature of the Sustainable Enterprise – Maurizio Zollo, Christiane Bode, Armando Cirrincione, Anne Jacqueminet, Michael Russo, Miles Bernard Gietzmann
3. Why Corporate Sustainability? Assessing the Strategic Opportunity
- What is the Business Case for Sustainability? – Anne Jacqueminet
- Social Impact and Employee Preferences – Christiane Bode
- Social Enterprise: Definitions and Examples – Rakhi Mehra
- Creating a Sustainable Enterprise from Scratch: a Case Study – Rakhi Mehra
- Impact Investing – Audrey Selian, Rakhi Mehra
- Impact Assessment – Rakhi Mehra, Eric Ezechieli
- Circular Economy: The Aquafil Case – Salvo Testa, Giulio Bonazzi
- Responsibly-Innovative Startups: Re-Bello & Wrad Cases – Francesca Romana Rinaldi
- Cross Sector Partnerships - Lilach Trabelsi
4. Seizing the Strategic Opportunity: Managing Sustainability Transitions across Business Functions
- How to Manage the Transition towards Sustainable Enterprise – Maurizio Zollo
- Integrating Sustainability in Corporate Strategy – Maurizio Zollo
- Sustainable Corporate Growth Strategies – Maurizio Zollo
- Governance: Institutionalizing Sustainability – Xing Kelly Chen
- Accounting and Controlling – Ariela Caglio
- Supply Chain: Main Problems – MJ. Ni. ilknur Tekin
- Supply Chain Focus Pills: Risks in Fashion Supply Chain – Iolanda D’Amato
- Supply Chain Case: the YKK Group Case – Iolanda D'Amato
- HR Strategy and Management – Silvia Bagdadli
- Sales & Marketing – Armando Cirrincione
- R&D Innovation: a Framework – Nicoletta Corrocher
- R&D Innovation: Technological Change and Innovation – MJ. Ni. ilknur Tekin
5. Transitioning Organizations to Sustainable Enterprises: Developing the Road-Map
- Cultural Change – Frank Brueck
- Developing a Roadmap for Transformation: Individual Level – Frank Brueck
- Developing Roadmap for Transformation: Organizational Change – MJ. Ni. ilknur Tekin
- Developing a Roadmap for Transformation: How to Pursue Organizational Change – Michael Russo
- Developing a Roadmap for Transformation: Change at the Systemic Level – Steve Waddell
- Course Wrap-up – Maurizio Zollo
6. FINAL ASSESSMENT
