IIMBx: ST250x Strategy and the Sustainable Enterprise

  WELCOME TO STRATEGY AND THE SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISE

This page will guide you through the course syllabus and provide important information related to this course.

In this five week course, you will learn how sustainability issues influence corporate strategy and how corporations may transform these challenges into sources of competitive advantage.

This course explores the emerging relationships between sustainability issues and competitive advantage. Building on the basic concepts of strategic management, this course will explore how managers may effectively deal with the sustainability challenges that they now encounter.

By encouraging you to reflect on these issues using multiple case studies, discussions and interviews, we will aim to enhance your understanding of alternative models of strategy development in the context of sustainable development.

Pre-requisites

No prior knowledge or experience is mandatory.

However, prior exposure in the subject areas of management, especially strategic management will help you navigate through course easily.

Course Agenda

Week	Section Name	Topics Covered	Thought Leaders	Start Date
0	Welcome to the Course	Course Overview Navigation in edX Pre-course Survey	NA	13 Oct 2016 (03:30 UTC)
1	What is Sustainability and Why Should Strategists Care?	Introduction to Sustainability The Changing Landscapes of Business New Rules of Doing Business	John R. Ehrenfeld	20 Oct 2016 (03:30 UTC)
2	Managing Stakeholders	Introduction to Stakeholder Management The Stakeholder Theory of the Firm Managing for Stakeholder Value Stakeholders and Non-Market Strategies	R. Edward Freeman N. R. Narayana Murthy	27 Oct 2016 (03:30 UTC)
3	Managing Sustainability Risks	Introduction to Risk Management Assessing Sustainability Risks Managing Issues Managing Risks in a Global Context	Christine Bader Auret Van Heerden	3 Nov 2016 (03:30 UTC)
4	Transforming Into the Sustainable Enterprise	Introduction to Corporate Sustainability Tools and Techniques  Green Supply Chain Management Company Case Studies Sustainability Reporting	Aditi Haldar Carol Sanford Shankar Venkatesan N. R. Narayana Murthy	10 Nov 2016 (03:30 UTC)
5	The Anarchist Corporation	Introduction New Business Models for Sustainability The Anarchist Corporation Corporate Stories Synthesis and Summation	Stuart L. Hart John Elkington Duncan Goose	17 Nov 2016 (03:30 UTC)

Time Commitment

Course Length:

• 5 Weeks
• Each week is released across the globe on Thursday, 03:30 UTC.

Weekly Commitment

4-5 hours per week.This includes the time spent in going through the course materials (videos and reading materials), taking up the assessment and participating in the discussion forums.

Grading Scheme

The course follows an End of Week assessment scheme, which consists of multiple choice questions. There are 5 graded assessments in this course. The score from each assessment will contribute to the final score, which you can track using the Progress tab.

Note: The ungraded assessments are interspersed throughout the course to recall what you have learnt so far. These do not count for final assessments and will not show up on the Progress tab.

Each week’s assessment carries 20% weightage.

Academic Code of Conduct

Please follow the rules for academic honesty and online conduct for this course by reading edX Terms of Services.

Note

• Many of these dates are dynamic and subject to change during the course run. Please be sure to visit the Course Home page and refer to your weekly course email for any change in any of the dates listed above.
• As you work through your course, you’ll see dates and times when new materials are released and when assignments and exams are due. It’s important to remember that edX lists all times in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), 24-hour format.