Transforming Business Education Through Sustainability & Integrated Management
Environmental and Social Sustainability should not be confined to a single course, concentration, or academic discipline. It is increasingly part of how organizations manage strategy, finance, operations, supply chains, innovation, technology, people, risk, and stakeholder relationships.
The opportunity for Faculty and entire Universities is to move beyond simply adding sustainability content and instead ask a more important question: How can sustainability be integrated across the curriculum and into the capabilities we expect graduates to develop? We have the technology and capability to integrate environmental and social sustainability into every business function, but do we have the will and the leadership to back it up?
This resource hub, i.e., the books, research, teaching, and curriculum-development work, provide faculty and academic leaders with evidence, frameworks, cases, and practical tools for integrating sustainability and systems thinking into individual courses, business programs, and interdisciplinary curricula.
A design element and question for us to think about: How do we prepare future decision makers to manage organizations in a world where there is so much uncertainty around sustainability, AI, climate, stakeholder expectations, supply-chain risk, and financial performance are increasingly interconnected?
Redesign a Program
The course of study for a degree or certificate: For academic leaders developing or transforming undergraduate, MBA, sustainability, leadership, and interdisciplinary programs. Helping to build internationally recognized MBA programs, turning campuses into innovative ecosystems, and developing experiential curricula.
Universities worldwide are redesigning management education. Learn more about why and how this is happening.
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AACSB Standard 9
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Positive Impact
Transform a Curriculum
The specific content, lessons, and materials taught within that program: For departments and schools seeking to integrate sustainability across disciplines rather than isolate it within individual courses.
Change a Course
For faculty seeking cases, readings, frameworks, exercises, and assignments that integrate sustainability into an existing course. Together, we can translate research into practice while integrating sustainability into every business function.