DePaul University - Kellstadt Graduate School of Business

Courses in Sustainability

Yes

Sustainability course is

Required

Description

Where will your marketplace be in 2015? Designing and managing sustainable systematic change.Challenging basic assumptions--do you really know what they are? Are fundamental needs of the organization met? are competitors satisfying these needs more sustainably than you? Are you learing fast enough in this fast changing economy? Challenges for your team to think more creatively and effectively about the organizations's true value added and it's fit in a competitive, socialluy fragile and natural resource-constrained 21st century world.Focus on how economic challenges susatinability, and social concerns c an drive strategies to create and deliver value to a wider variety of stakeholders. Building intergrative sustainable managememnt practices.Asking different kinds of questions altogether based on different points of view.

Research Opportunities in Sustainability

Yes

Description

Cooperate with Ethics Center on joint programs. Business Ethics Case study projects have been initiated involving start ups which contribute to economic development and triple line benefits.Surveysof sustainable managment practices.Identifying standards that are used to create viable start ups that wil live for years and years. Going beyond the bottom line. What legacy do entreprenurs wish to leave their family?

School's environmental commitment 1:

Professional Society called "Net Impact" which is concerned about creating institutions for the long run without depleting natural resources and focusing on fair traded strategies.

School's environmental commitment 2:

Offering a new concentration in sustainable management at the graduate level in the College of Commerce, Department of Management.This unique MBA degree is based on the premise that in these changing times and growing awarenessof global and environmental challenges and in the current state of social and financial crisis there is a need to have a better understanding of the role of business in the use of resources and developing strategies to appropriately manage the environment.

School's environmental commitment 3:

Seminar and Workshop on Sustainable Management.There is a need for every type and size of organization-commercial, non-porfit and civic to engage in environmental and social issues and determine their impact on management practices.Action must be taken in analyzing logistics,energy, and material cost savings and responding to the changing market demand calling for potential radical innovation by integrating sustainability as a fundamental strategy, examining virtually every phase of the organizastion from processes, practices and partnerships to basic management models, mission, purpose and values.