CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS IN BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY

INTLBUS/MHR 403

Focuses on the strategic management required in global business. Topics include environmental analysis, global strategy, and subsidiary control. The aim of the course is to develop special skills that are required to manage international firms.

MHR 710

Provides central knowledge and skills to tackle challenges at the intersection of business and sustainability. Analysis of the causes of sustainability challenges as relating to business and study of frameworks and measurement systems for incorporating sustainability into corporate decision-making and business analysis.

OTM 370

Organizations employ a variety of improvement approaches to develop sustainable practices. Sustainability concerns such as natural capital, emission buildup, and base of the pyramid are directly addressed by examining innovative system-improvement concepts, while simultaneously strengthening mission-central concerns such as cost, quality, customer, market, revenue, profit, brand, reputation sourcing, and quality of work life.

ENVIRST 215

An introduction to the dynamic and emerging transdisciplinary field of sustainability. A broad survey of the global sustainability science challenges and their potential solutions using an integrated social-environmental systems approach. Applies a sustainability and systems thinking lens to various topics, such as complexity, resilience, ecological literacy, global climate change, economics, food systems, energy, sustainable development, and social equity. Facilitates the exploration of complex interrelationships among contemporary environmental, social, and economic problems and the solutions to support more sustainable systems. Focuses on the skills, knowledge, and attitudes to implement sustainable practices and to enact sustainable development through sustainability science and education.

MHR 365

Exploration of subject areas possibly to be introduced into the business curriculum.