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Bachelor 2019/2020

Sustainable development

Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Type: Elective course (Management)
Area of studies: Management
Delivered by: School of Management
When: 4 year, 2 module
Mode of studies: distance learning
Instructors: Elena V. Shadrina
Language: English
ECTS credits: 4
Contact hours: 28

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course introduces the topic of sustainability from four perspectives: sustainable development goals, corporate sustainability (core of the module); business ethics and social innovation. Students will be involved in an engaging debate discussing the different economic, environmental and social perspectives on the topics discussed. At the end of this module, students will have a comprehensive understanding of sustainability issues, the relevance for policymakers, the role of corporations and the implications for decision-making. Blended: https://ru.coursera.org/learn/corp-sustainability
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • Learning Outcomes - Know the history of the sustainable idea. - Be able to discuss the conflicts which are involved in the sustainable development concept on the national as well as on the global scale. - Be familiar with potential strategic options for sustainable development; - Be able to discuss the (dis-)advantages of instruments for sustainable development. - Understand the sustainable development challenge for companies, their responsibility and their potentials for action.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • understand the idea and knows the principles of sustainable development.
  • Student knows global issues.
  • Able to identify sustainable development problems at the country, company, personal level.
  • understand the connection between sustainable development issues and business activities.
  • Define the role of business in sustainable development.
  • Analyze the transformation of business goals.
  • Know How each individual, organization and system can start to analyse its behaviours and change towards more sustainable practices and models.
  • understand the structure of social and innovative entrepreneurship, their role for sustainable development.
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Introduction to Sustainable Development.
    1. Sustainable development: core definitions, sustainable development debates. 2. Global risks and sustainable development goals. Challenges at a country and company level. Climate change. Limited natural resources. World population growth. Poverty. Inequality. Corruption. Sustainable development is country specific. Why the Sustainable Development Goals are important.
  • Sustainable Development and Business
    3. The role played by business: CSR, sustainability and shared value. The sole purpose of a business? Sustainability in business. From CSR to corporate sustainability and shared value. The fake news effect and corporate sustainability. 4. Sustainability today Why companies engage with sustainability. Sustainability leaders vs practitioners vs traditionalists. Sustainability in practice in engineering. Sustainability in practice in the oil and gas sector. Sustainability in practice in the Perm Region business. 5. Practising sustainability thinking and decision making. Case study: Mercato Metropolitano. Making recommendations for Mercato Metropolitano. Case study of business company in Russia. Making recommendations. Review. 6. Business Ethics and Sustainable Development. What are ethics? Why do ethics matter in business? Business dilemmas: What would you do? CEOs about ethical questions.
  • Social innovation and Sustainable Development
    7. Social innovation and social entrepreneurship. Social innovation phenomena. Social entrepreneurship phenomena. Tackling a social problem. Module review.
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Independent Study
  • non-blocking Essay
  • non-blocking Online exercises
  • non-blocking Project
  • non-blocking In-class examination
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • Interim assessment (2 module)
    0.1 * Essay + 0.4 * In-class examination + 0.1 * Independent Study + 0.3 * Online exercises + 0.1 * Project
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Sarkar, Runa, and Anup Sinha. Economics of Sustainable Development, Business Expert Press, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5184983

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Roosa, Stephen A.. Sustainable Development Handbook, The Fairmont Press, Inc., 2010. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3239039.