Corporate Sustainability: Introduction
About This Course
Corporate Sustainability deals with strategies, activities, processes and structures that can help organizations sustain themselves as well as their people, natural resources and communities for the long run.
The negative impact created on the society and environment by industrial operations has resulted in increasing pressures from Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society, and other stakeholders on corporations to adopt more sustainable and socially responsible practices in all their activities - right from sourcing to distribution, and to how the products and packaging is handled at the end of a use cycle. Corporate sustainability and responsibility have therefore become key concerns for the board members, shareholders as well as market regulators.
What You'll Learn
At the end of the one-day module, participants students should have gained:
1) An appreciation of the key issues in corporate sustainability.
2) An appreciation of a strategic framework for implementing sustainable business practices.
3) Insights into implementing lean and green operations.
4) Appreciation of concepts such as sustainable product design, circular economy and responsible sourcing.