204-035-IO Sustainability Management
Study program: | International Management (MBA) |
Academic level and semester: | Master, 3rd semester |
ECTS credits/workload per semester: | 6 / 150 |
Contact hours per week/contact hours per semester: | 4 / 45 |
Type/Teaching method: | Lecture |
| Language of instruction: | English |
Frequency: | Winter semester |
Lecturer: | Prof. Dr. Robert Gabriel, Dr. Joachim Rücker |
Content: | Sustainable Business Management: The course offers a broad overview of all aspects that relate to sustainable business management, from a very practice-oriented perspective. Starting with sustainability drivers and sustainability leaderhip, the students learn about stakeholder dialogue and apply a method to identify the most material sustainability aspects for the sustainability strategy of an organisation. This section concludes with the question how sustainability can create value for businesses. In further classes, the students learn how sustainability must always look at a corporation’s value chain, and how the value chain can be broken down in three perspectives, in order to operationalize sustainability for the different corporate functions: product view, corporate view and supply chain view. The students learn about the different tools and methods typically applied for these perspectives, and see a number of case studies and practical examples for a deeper learning experience. The last part of the course deals with sustainability reporting – objective, standards and critical review of its importance – and with sustainability ratings, used by investors to select the most sustainable assets for the investement portfolio. Business Ethics and Sustainability Structures: coming soon. |
Textbooks: | Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). GRI-Standards. Can be retrieved from https:// www.globalreporting.org/standards |
| Recommended for: | Undergraduates, graduates |
| Prerequisites: | Background in Business/Economics |
Restrictions: | This course cannot be taken together with the following courses: 101-115-IO Marketing and Sustainability and 101-118-IO-01 Sustainability Performance Management & Reporting Number of undergraduates is limited to 6 |
Assessment: | Written exam, presentation |