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Building Sustainable Businesses
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Program Overview
This course examines how business owners, entrepreneurs and innovators can counter climate change and other environmental damage through key changes to the global economy.
Students will explore how businesses are stepping up and rethinking the ways we generate and distribute energy, grow and process our food, move around in our communities and travel over long distances, build our homes, design and manufacture everyday products, and more.
Key Information
Topics of Study
- Improving the environmental performances of existing businesses
- Building strategies in an era of changing environmental and economic policies
- Spotting opportunities and designing compelling, environmentally-friendly products and services
Learning Highlights
- Identify the localized and global changes in the Earth’s environment and how they might affect consumer priorities, lifestyles and buying power
- Learn how to enhance the efficiency of companies to make their products and services more environmentally sustainable
- Understand emerging business models that cope with new realities of resource availability, cost, regulation and more
- Get exposed to new, environmentally-friendly technologies and production techniques
- Create marketing messages to find and attract a rising generation of environmentally-conscious consumers
- Identify the basic drivers of ecologically impactful industries and sectors (e.g., food, energy transport) to uncover opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship
Requirements
- Students must bring their own laptops
- Students are expected to wear business casual attire for presentations and field trips. Please note that classrooms and field trips sites are often air-conditioned — consider bringing layers!
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