SUSTAINABILITY COURSES

MBA

In addition to the many case studies within each of the core MBA and HBA courses, the MBA program contains several courses that fall under the auspices of the Centre.

Module 3: Competing Successfully in a Global Environment of the new MBA program contains two segments that are directly relevant to the Centre. The Managing Individuals within Corporations and Society segment sensitizes students to the role of individuals in the corporation and the role of corporations in society. The Leading a Culturally Diverse Workforce segment sensitizes students to the cultural influences and biases faced by managers and leaders of global organizations. Additionally, many of the other segments contain activities or case studies developed by or relevant to the Centre for Building Sustainable Value.

HBA

Since 2007, second year HBAs take a core course called Individuals, Corporations and Society.  This course covers topics pertaining to sustainability such as stakeholder management, clean technologies, ethical decision making, non-profits, and sustainable business models.  

In addition all first year HBA students partake in four diversity workshops covering gender discrimination, gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered experiences in the workplace, accommodating persons with disabilities, and sexual harassment.

EMBA

Sustainability is considered a part of the contemporary topics course taught in this program.

PhD

During the 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 years a doctoral seminar entitled "Building Sustainable Value"  was  offered to PhD students. In the true spirit of the cross-enterprise centre, each class was taught by a different faculty member with expertise in a different social issue. The course will continue to be a great forum for interaction between doctoral students and a great number of faculty, and it could potentially lead to new cross-enterprise research collaborations.