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Sustainable Business Management
Code
GBE-ECE2
Version
1.0
Offered by
Global Business Engineering
ECTS
5
Prerequisites
Understanding of, and interest in, strategic, commercial and managerial aspects of business
Main purpose
Industries, markets and businesses are sometimes impacted or even rapidly disrupted.
The various interests and power of stakeholders are increasing, and geopolitics is now on the agenda of the board. Because it must be.
Any company must mitigate with the impacts, risks and opportunities within the market & industry that they are operating in. Or wishes to operate in.
Answers to questions such as are evident;
What is sustainability? Should a company work with sustainability? And what does that really mean to that company? Their business model? Their supply chain?
Can working on sustainable measures give a competitive advantage?
Will the company work with ESG reporting? And/or with a double materiality assessment?
Why/why not?
And what is the right balance – for a particular company - between governance and commercial risks and opportunities?
Knowledge
The student must have knowledge of why a company works with sustainability. And how.
As well as knowledge of what is the right balance between governance and commercial risks and opportunities
Skills
The student must be able to assess how management mitigates the impacts, risks and opportunities within their market & industry.
As well as assessing how sustainability is – or should be - embedded in a company’s business model and supply chain
Assessing stakeholders and their impact on ESG reporting.
Competences
The student can make a strategy on how a company mitigates within the scope of sustainability and geopolitics
Topics
Teaching methods and study activities
Students taking this course are enrolled in various programs and semesters meaning that the students – in groups – are to form the strategic issue or opportunity of their own choice within the overall learning goals of the course.
This means that the groups decide on a case company on which they are working on solving an issue or an opportunity with the overall learning goals of the course.
The groups (3-4 persons) are formed by the students. However it is recommended to form groups with a very high degree of diversity as well as including students from all programs listed (below).
The course is student driven to a large degree meaning the number of classes are lower than other courses and with a high degree of research, group work and presentations, however supervision and peer review are facilitated by the lecturer during the semester.
Resources
Evaluation
Examination
Prerequisites for exam:
None
Exam type:
An up to 8-pager mandatory group paper is handed in prior to the exam. The paper accounts for 50% of the grade.
Oral exam is a 45-minute group exam with individual grading;
Up to 10 minutes group presentation of the paper
Around 30 minutes dialogue, discussion and assessment
Around 10 minutes of grading and feedback
The oral exam accounts for 50% of the grade.
Internal censor.
Tools allowed:
None
Re-exam:
As ordinary exam
Grading criteria
Additional information
Responsible
Steen Skriver (stes)
Valid from
01-08-2025 00:00
Course type
Keywords
Sustainable, Business, Management, ESG, Strategy, Stakeholders, Mitigation, Impact, Risks, Opportunities