Strategy and the Sustainable Enterprise

By P D Jose | Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB)

Learners enrolled: 1294

Strategy and the Sustainable Enterprise analyses the structure of sustainable development from a business perspective.

The course explores why sustainability has become a pressing concern for strategists and how firms are responding to the numerous sustainability challenges they face. By adopting a sustainability driven perspective, a firm can transform these potentially crippling challenges into profitable opportunities, benefiting both itself and society. The course highlights multiple frameworks to address these sustainability challenges and adapt those to fit the issues at hand. Along with frameworks, the course brings several experts from the corporate and academic spheres to the table for meaningful discussion on sustainable development.

While considering the rapid change in the business landscape in a globalized world, the course deals with the need to manage stakeholders and risks through the lens of sustainability. The last modules detail the journey a firm can take to continually transform into a sustainable enterprise.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	6 weeks
Category :	Management Studies
Credit Points :	2
Level :	Postgraduate
Start Date :	27 Jul 2020
End Date :	14 Dec 2020
Enrollment Ends :	14 Oct 2020
Exam Date :	25 Mar 2021 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: What is Sustainability and why should Strategists care?

• Introduction to Sustainability

• The Changing Landscapes of Business

• New Rules of Doing Business

Week 2: Managing Stakeholders

• Introduction to Stakeholder Management

• The Stakeholder Theory of the Firm

• Managing for Stakeholder Value

• Stakeholders and Non-Market Strategies

Week 3: Managing Sustainability Risks

• Introduction to Risk Management

• Assessing Sustainability Risks

• Managing Issues

• Managing Risks in a Global Context

Week 4: Transforming into the Sustainable Enterprise

• Introduction to Corporate Sustainability

• Tools and Techniques

• Green Supply Chain Management

• Company Case Studies

• Sustainability Reporting

Week 5: The Anarchist Corporation

• Introduction

• New Business Models for Sustainability

• The Anarchist Corporation

• Corporate Stories

• Synthesis and Summation

Books and references

References provided inside course weekly.

Instructor bio

P D Jose

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB)

P D Jose is an professor at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, where he teaches core courses on Business and Corporate Strategy and several electives on sustainability. He is a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He also has a Post Graduate Diploma in Forestry Management from the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal and Bachelors in Physics from the Institute of Science, Bombay. He has taught classes on strategy and/or sustainability at a number of schools including Cardiff University Business School (UK); the School of Economics and Business at the University of Goteborg, Sweden; Indian Institute of Management at Kozhikode and Ahmedabad. He has also consulted with several government agencies, non-governmental, private sector and international organizations.

Course certificate

Weightage: 25% weightage weekly assessments and 75% weightage for final exam.

Passing Marks: You will be eligible for certificate only if you score minimum 40% weekly assessment and min 40% in final exam. If you score less than 40% in either weekly assessments (avg) or in final exam, you will not receive the certificate.

The final score will determine if you will / will not receive a certificate.

Grades:

1. Final score < 40%: NO certificate.

2. Final score between 40% - 49.99%: Grade D.

3. Final score between 50% - 59.99%: Grade C.

4. Final score between 60% - 84.99%: Grade B

5. Final score of 85% and above: Grade A