Бакалавриат
2024/2025
Устойчивое развитие и ESG практики компаний
Статус:
Курс обязательный (Бизнес-информатика)
Направление:
38.03.05. Бизнес-информатика
Где читается:
Высшая школа бизнеса
Когда читается:
4-й курс, 1 модуль
Формат изучения:
без онлайн-курса
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Иванова Екатерина Александровна
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course on sustainable development and ESG practices provides a conceptual and theoretical framework that is applied to a number of recent business cases based on real data. The lectures provide the theoretical grounding and the smaller seminar groups are used for case studies.
Learning Objectives
- To develop a conceptual and theoretical framework for sustainable development and corporate ESG practices in the age of AI. The framework includes shareholder theory, stakeholder theory, CSR, the Triple Bottom Line, Value-Based Management, Value Rationality, AI and the Value Alignment Problem, Relative and Absolute Value, Corporate Core Values, Organisational Integrity, Perceived Leader Integrity, and Ethical Leadership. AI and ethical decision-making.
- To apply and test the conceptual and theoretical frameworks that support sustainable development and ESG practices in simulated cases based on real events and actual data from the local and international business environment including and use of Large Language Models and AI.
- To discuss and debate and critically analyse the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to sustainable development and ESG practices with a particular focus on the use of AI to support creative thinking and decision-making.
- To integrate ethical principles into corporate strategy that supports sustainable development and ESG practices through effective collaboration with AI.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- 1) Critical Thinking: Critically analyze and assess the impact of various business practices on sustainability and ESG criteria.
- 2) Holistic Mindset: Formulate and propose comprehensive sustainability and ESG strategies tailored to specific industries or companies using informed decision-making.
- 3) Managerial Dashboarding: Apply tools and techniques from business informatics to collect and interpret data related to sustainability and ESG performance.
- 4) Ethical Consideration: Recognize and evaluate the ethical implications of business decisions related to sustainability and responsibility.
- 5) Collaborative Problem-Solving: Work effectively in teams to propose innovative solutions to real-world sustainability challenges, emphasizing stakeholder engagement and community impact.
Course Contents
- Module 1. Introduction to Sustainable Development and ESG
- Module 2. Future Trends in Responsible Management Practices
- Module 3. The Role of Data Management in Sustainability
- Module 4. Social and Governance: Frameworks and Practices in Sustainability
- Module 5. Environmental: Frameworks and Practices in Sustainability
Assessment Elements
- Colloquiums on team-charter, book world café, cinemalogia and collage (group)See course syllabus for the detailed instructions on these assignments.
- Project “Digital sustainability management” on the ESG-dashboards (group)See course syllabus for the detailed instructions on this assignment.
- Final exam (individual)
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 1st module0.2 * Colloquiums on team-charter, book world café, cinemalogia and collage (group) + 0.5 * Final exam (individual) + 0.3 * Project “Digital sustainability management” on the ESG-dashboards (group)
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Principles of management : practicing ethics, responsibility, sustainability, Laasch, O., 2021
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Raworth, K. (2017). Doughnut Economics : Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1850087
- Scharmer, O., & Kaufer, K. (2013). Leading From the Emerging Future : From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies (Vol. 1st ed). San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=591172
- The sustainability mindset principles : a guide to developing a mindset for a better world, Rimanoczy, I., 2021