2025/2026
Управление устойчивым развитием компании
Статус:
Маго-лего
Где читается:
Высшая школа бизнеса
Когда читается:
1 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ
Преподаватели:
Роулинс Томас Эдвард
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
24
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This innovative course explores the critical intersection of business management and sustainabe development in today’s rapidly evolving global marketplace. It equips future business leaders with the essential knowledge and skills to navigate global ethical challenges while driving sustainable development and creating long-term value. “Sustainable Business Management” delves into how purpose-driven organizations can act human-centric agents and have a positive impact on the Triple Bottom Line. Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of how to integrate sustainable practices into core business strategies, operations, and decision-making processes, aligning with the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria. The curriculum covers key topics, such as, stakeholder and shareholder engagement, corporate social responsibility, and the paradigm of humanistic management. This approach focuses on protecting dignity and promoting well-being rather than just wealth acquisition, emphasizing the shift towards a human-centric appraoch to leadership. Through applying theoretical frameworks to contemporary case studies, students will learn to analyze sustainability-related risks and opportunities, implement sustainable business models, and measure the triple bottom line impact of their decisions. By the end of the course, students will be equipped with the knowledge and tools to drive sustainable innovations, enhance organizational resilience, and lead responsible businesses that contribute positively to both profit and the planet. Students will emerge prepared to implement ethical and responsible management practices, engage diverse stakeholders, and drive positive change in both local and global contexts. This course aims to nurture a new generation of conscientious business leaders capable of steering organizations towards higher purposes while addressing complex global issues. Students will be ready to navigate the complexities of sustainability, create competitive advantages in an increasingly conscious market environment, and contribute to making our planet a better place for living.
Learning Objectives
- 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 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 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
- 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 + 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