Corporate Sustainability Strategy

QST SI 849

Corporate Sustainability Strategy is an advanced corporate-level strategy course that explores such varied issues as the underpinnings, interconnectedness and systems dynamics of human-coupled natural ecosystems, limits to growth and the increasing influence of climate change, environmental degradation and natural resource depletion on the corporate strategy, industrial development and the global economy. Specifically, this course: 1) Applies situational analysis techniques and methods to macro-level social, economic and environmental systems and their driving forces, 2) Evaluates a variety of strategic planning/forecasting tools, methods and techniques, 3) Investigates decision frameworks for corporate strategy focused on creating/capturing value and risk management through a sequence of action over time, 4) Explores new emerging paradigms for product/service, business model, structural and financial innovations, 5) Identifies new opportunities/challenges for innovation and value creation/capture through collaborations and competition, partnerships/alliances/consortia and platforms. The course takes the perspective of the corporate leader/strategy analyst and challenges students to identify driving forces, evaluate global trends, understand implications and assess their impact on strategies, objectives, operations and performance of the firm.