Fall 2022 MBA Courses in Sustainable Business
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At a time of indisputable societal and environmental change, Stern MBA students specializing in Sustainable Business and Innovation will examine the unique role of the private sector and gain a broad understanding of how embedding sustainability into core business strategy benefits financial performance and management practices. To learn more about the Specialization and its course requirements, click here.
To assist MBA students as they design their schedules, CSB has assembled the following list of Sustainable Business and Innovation courses offered in the upcoming Fall 2022 semester.
Professor Rifkin | T 6:00 - 9:00pm | Virtual
This course is designed to assist students in developing the knowledge, skills, and perspective they need to understand and address environmental and social challenges in business, so that as leaders they reduce risk, create competitive advantage, and develop innovative services, products, and processes, all while building value for society and protecting the planet.
Professor Haidt | T 9:00 - 11:45am or M 6:00 - 9:00pm | In-Person
For centuries, work was regarded as nothing but toil – a requirement for earning one's daily bread. But in recent decades, expectations about work have been transformed as has its very nature. While it still provides one’s daily bread, it is also regarded as a major opportunity for people to find purpose, meaning, and happiness in their lives. In this course, students study the latest research on what makes people happy at work, on how happiness at work improves the quality of work, on how people and organizations develop wisdom, and on what makes a career not just successful but meaningful. We will also discuss some of the impediments – both individual and organizational to doing meaningful and satisfying work. Students will develop their own visions of their ideal career, and of the ideal company they’d like to lead or work for.
DBIN-GB.3110 Doing Business in Costa Rica: Sustainable Business in Latin America
Professor Whelan | Travel January 8 - 13 | In-Person
This course aims to give students a focused experience on sustainable business in Latin America. Through a series of lectures with INCAE faculty and speakers, and visits to relevant destinations, students will become familiar with the role of socially, culturally, environmentally, and economically sustainable business practices within Latin American emerging markets.
DBIN-GB.3318 Doing Business in South Africa (Cape Town)
Professor Hall | Travel January 8 - 20 | In-Person
This program, Doing business in South Africa is shaped by the intersection of inequality and opportunity. Measured in terms of household income, South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world, resulting in high levels of unemployment and underemployment, lack of equitable access to health, housing, education and other core services and severely restricted markets for consumer products and services. But at the same time, South Africa provides significant opportunities; high levels of creativity and energy, a young population and access to the wider markets of sub-Saharan Africa.
MGMT-GB 2100: Inclusive Leadership
Professors Weisberg and Basch | M 6:00-9:00pm | In-Person
This course will provide students with the skills and strategies to leverage their talents, including female talent, and in so doing to become more inclusive – and better - leaders. It will also identify new approaches that can bolster inclusive leadership. Women and men who take this course will be able to utilize the skills and knowledge taught when making their own career decisions, as well as when managing, being managed by, or collaborating with others of diverse backgrounds
MKTG-GB 2323 Marketing and Sustainability
Professor Bollinger | MW 3.00 PM - 4.20pm or M 6:00-9:00pm | In-Person
This course aims to provide a broad range of tools and frameworks for understanding how businesses can interact with issues related to sustainability, taking a marketing perspective. In particular, we examine how traditional marketing strategies can be incorporated into and/or modified in domains in which sustainability is critical. This course will draw upon cases, guest speakers, academic and industry research, and recent articles and events. In addition, we will have two “live cases” presented by industry representatives. The final course deliverable will be a marketing plan focused on a firm strategy that can increase the sustainability of the firm’s actions while also creating stakeholder value.
PADM-GP 2311 Social Impact Investment
Professor Taitel | W 4:55 - 6:35pm | In-Person
This course provides an introduction to the impact investment landscape, the potential evolution of impact investment as an asset class and the opportunities and challenges for investors seeking meaningful impact investment vehicles. The course will also teach the process by which an investor performs financial due diligence on a social enterprise to render a responsible investment decision.
Professor Taparia | R 9:00-10:40am | In-Person
This course is designed to put the idea of teaching social entrepreneurship to its ultimate test, with a focus on identifying and solving problems in the food industry through the vehicle of entrepreneurship. The objective of this course is to incubate a food venture that has the potential to be a viable business and positively impact public health and/or environmental outcomes.
BSPA-GB.2308 Driving Market Solutions for Clean Energy
Professor Gowrishankar | W 6:00-9:00pm | In-Person
This course is designed to provide students with a rich understanding of the economy-wide energy transitions that are needed in the United States to help curb climate change, with an emphasis on how the private sector can drive such changes. As relevant background, the course will cover energy-related macroeconomic concepts and trends, and provide environmental and international context.
Global Markets, Human Rights, & the Press
Professor Posner | Th 6:00-9:00pm ET | In-Person
This course will explore some of the choices global businesses face in addressing human rights challenges in their core business operations. The course will include a series of case studies from different industries where accelerating globalization and advancing technology have made these challenges more acute in recent years. The course will focus on the evolving public face of these issues driven in part by rapid developments in the global media and advances in information technology.
To assist MBA students as they design their schedules, CSB has assembled the following list of Sustainable Business and Innovation courses offered in the upcoming Fall 2022 semester.
Foundational Course (Required for Specialization)
BSPA-GB.2305: Sustainability for Competitive AdvantageProfessor Rifkin | T 6:00 - 9:00pm | Virtual
This course is designed to assist students in developing the knowledge, skills, and perspective they need to understand and address environmental and social challenges in business, so that as leaders they reduce risk, create competitive advantage, and develop innovative services, products, and processes, all while building value for society and protecting the planet.
Discipline
BSPA-GB 3110 - Work, Wisdom, and HappinessProfessor Haidt | T 9:00 - 11:45am or M 6:00 - 9:00pm | In-Person
For centuries, work was regarded as nothing but toil – a requirement for earning one's daily bread. But in recent decades, expectations about work have been transformed as has its very nature. While it still provides one’s daily bread, it is also regarded as a major opportunity for people to find purpose, meaning, and happiness in their lives. In this course, students study the latest research on what makes people happy at work, on how happiness at work improves the quality of work, on how people and organizations develop wisdom, and on what makes a career not just successful but meaningful. We will also discuss some of the impediments – both individual and organizational to doing meaningful and satisfying work. Students will develop their own visions of their ideal career, and of the ideal company they’d like to lead or work for.
DBIN-GB.3110 Doing Business in Costa Rica: Sustainable Business in Latin America
Professor Whelan | Travel January 8 - 13 | In-Person
This course aims to give students a focused experience on sustainable business in Latin America. Through a series of lectures with INCAE faculty and speakers, and visits to relevant destinations, students will become familiar with the role of socially, culturally, environmentally, and economically sustainable business practices within Latin American emerging markets.
DBIN-GB.3318 Doing Business in South Africa (Cape Town)
Professor Hall | Travel January 8 - 20 | In-Person
This program, Doing business in South Africa is shaped by the intersection of inequality and opportunity. Measured in terms of household income, South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world, resulting in high levels of unemployment and underemployment, lack of equitable access to health, housing, education and other core services and severely restricted markets for consumer products and services. But at the same time, South Africa provides significant opportunities; high levels of creativity and energy, a young population and access to the wider markets of sub-Saharan Africa.
MGMT-GB 2100: Inclusive Leadership
Professors Weisberg and Basch | M 6:00-9:00pm | In-Person
This course will provide students with the skills and strategies to leverage their talents, including female talent, and in so doing to become more inclusive – and better - leaders. It will also identify new approaches that can bolster inclusive leadership. Women and men who take this course will be able to utilize the skills and knowledge taught when making their own career decisions, as well as when managing, being managed by, or collaborating with others of diverse backgrounds
MKTG-GB 2323 Marketing and Sustainability
Professor Bollinger | MW 3.00 PM - 4.20pm or M 6:00-9:00pm | In-Person
This course aims to provide a broad range of tools and frameworks for understanding how businesses can interact with issues related to sustainability, taking a marketing perspective. In particular, we examine how traditional marketing strategies can be incorporated into and/or modified in domains in which sustainability is critical. This course will draw upon cases, guest speakers, academic and industry research, and recent articles and events. In addition, we will have two “live cases” presented by industry representatives. The final course deliverable will be a marketing plan focused on a firm strategy that can increase the sustainability of the firm’s actions while also creating stakeholder value.
PADM-GP 2311 Social Impact Investment
Professor Taitel | W 4:55 - 6:35pm | In-Person
This course provides an introduction to the impact investment landscape, the potential evolution of impact investment as an asset class and the opportunities and challenges for investors seeking meaningful impact investment vehicles. The course will also teach the process by which an investor performs financial due diligence on a social enterprise to render a responsible investment decision.
Issue Area
BSPA-GB.2306 Social Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Food BusinessProfessor Taparia | R 9:00-10:40am | In-Person
This course is designed to put the idea of teaching social entrepreneurship to its ultimate test, with a focus on identifying and solving problems in the food industry through the vehicle of entrepreneurship. The objective of this course is to incubate a food venture that has the potential to be a viable business and positively impact public health and/or environmental outcomes.
BSPA-GB.2308 Driving Market Solutions for Clean Energy
Professor Gowrishankar | W 6:00-9:00pm | In-Person
This course is designed to provide students with a rich understanding of the economy-wide energy transitions that are needed in the United States to help curb climate change, with an emphasis on how the private sector can drive such changes. As relevant background, the course will cover energy-related macroeconomic concepts and trends, and provide environmental and international context.
Global Markets, Human Rights, & the Press
Professor Posner | Th 6:00-9:00pm ET | In-Person
This course will explore some of the choices global businesses face in addressing human rights challenges in their core business operations. The course will include a series of case studies from different industries where accelerating globalization and advancing technology have made these challenges more acute in recent years. The course will focus on the evolving public face of these issues driven in part by rapid developments in the global media and advances in information technology.