2025/2026
Управление устойчивым развитием компании
Статус:
Маго-лего
Где читается:
Высшая школа бизнеса
Когда читается:
1 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Роулинс Томас Эдвард
Язык:
английский
Контактные часы:
24
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course provides a comprehensive exploration of sustainable development theories and practices within a business context. It examines the evolution from shareholder to stakeholder theory, the rise of ESG and the triple bottom line, and the ethical foundations critical to managing sustainability challenges. Students engage with normative ethics—utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics—and critically evaluate prevailing economic rationality through classical and human-centric frameworks, including Habermas’ discourse ethics. The course integrates contemporary case studies and applied seminar discussions to develop practical decision-making skills and ethical leadership capacities in sustainable development management.
Learning Objectives
- - To understand core sustainable development theories and their application in business management. - To analyze ethical frameworks relevant to sustainability decision-making. - To critically assess and compare the underlying assumptions of economic rationality models—particularly instrumental rationality versus communicative rationality—and evaluate how these differing assumptions influence approaches to managing sustainable development. - To apply stakeholder theory and corporate responsibility principles to real-world cases. - To develop skills in ethical reasoning, stakeholder engagement, and solution-oriented sustainability leadership.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Students develop a solid understanding of the basic concepts and principles of sustainability, including its social, environmental, and economic dimensions.
- Students recognize the urgent need for businesses to address sustainability issues and the potential benefits of doing so.
- Students identify and prioritize the stakeholders relevant to the organization and understand their perspectives, needs, and expectations
- Students understand the process of prioritizing materiality issues based on their potential risks and opportunities and aligning them with the organization's goals and values
- Students integrate sustainability considerations into financial decision-making processes
- Students analyze financial statements and data, conduct valuation assessments, and interpret ESG-related information
- Students comduct the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology and identify potential areas for improvement
- Students apply sustainability certifications and standards, such as LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), ISO 14001 (Environmental Management Systems), or B Corp certification
- Students develop different communication strategies and techniques that organizations can use to effectively communicate their sustainability efforts
- Students identify ethical considerations involved in sustainable communications
- Students develop specific metrics and indicators used to measure sustainability performance
- Students apply data collection methods, data management, and data analysis techniques
- Students set performance targets, track indicators over time, and assess progress toward sustainability goals.
- Students explain key concepts and historical development of sustainable development, including SDGs and ESG frameworks.
- Students differentiate among normative ethical theories and relate these to business decision-making.
- Students critically evaluate tensions between utilitarian, deontological, and virtue ethics approaches in corporate sustainability.
- Studens articulate principles of communicative rationality and discourse ethics as human-centric decision-making tools.
- Students analyze contemporary sustainability challenges through real-world case studies using stakeholder theory.
- Students demonstrate effective ethical reasoning and active participation in seminar discussions.
- Students produce concise, reflective written and oral justifications on sustainability topics.
- Students will be able to critically analyze how AI misalignment can pose risks to equity and sustainability, explain the structural challenges of value alignment, and evaluate case studies demonstrating ethical issues in AI to propose approaches that align AI development with human-centric sustainable goals.
Course Contents
- Topic 2.Ethics and Economic Rationality in Sustainable Development
- Topic 3. Human-Centric Approaches and Leadership in Sustainability
- Topic 1. Foundations of Sustainable Development
- Artificial Intelligence and the Value Alignment Problem
Assessment Elements
- Seminar Participation (12 seminars)
- Written Assignments (two 50-word answers)
- Video Justifications (two 1-minute videos)
- Final Exam (20 multiple-choice questions)
- Lecture Attendance Requirements
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 1st module0.2 * Final Exam (20 multiple-choice questions) + 0 * Lecture Attendance Requirements + 0.4 * Seminar Participation (12 seminars) + 0.3 * Video Justifications (two 1-minute videos) + 0.1 * Written Assignments (two 50-word answers)
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Kokubu, K., & Nagasaka, Y. (2020). Sustainability Management And Business Strategy In Asia. World Scientific.
- Principles of management : practicing ethics, responsibility, sustainability, Laasch, O., 2021
- Schönborn, G., Berlin, C. 1981, Pinzone, M., Hanisch, C., Georgoulias, K., & Lanz, M. (2019). Why social sustainability counts: The impact of corporate social sustainability culture on financial success. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 17, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2018.08.008