MGT 380 Sustainable Enterprise Management

The course will review the latest issues pertaining to sustainability and their impact on business today. Through a series of discussions based on best practice case studies and readings from technical journals discussing the issues, students will learn key issues of sustainability, learn to appreciate the business opportunity associated with sustainability, understand how a sustainability program can be applied to an enterprise, comprehend some of the related risks, understand simple performance, reward systems and common measurement systems and appreciate the legal issues that relate to sustainability. They will learn to comprehend the options and impact of environmental decisions on business today.

The course will include developing sustainability strategy, improving corporate processes, products and projects, leadership for corporate sustainability, organizing for sustainability including employee engagement and the costing and capital investments of sustainability programs. The metrics and methodology used for sustainable development such as the Environmental Sustainability Index and ISO 14001 will be discussed. During the course the GHG protocol, life cycle assessment and ecological foot print analysis would be discussed to allow the students to comprehend the impact of business decisions on the environment.