Магистратура
2025/2026
Управление устойчивым развитием компании
Статус:
Курс обязательный (Бизнес-информатика: цифровое предприятие и управление информационными системами)
Где читается:
Высшая школа бизнеса
Когда читается:
2-й курс, 1 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
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
- Understand the evolution, key concepts and practices of sustainability management and sustainable development with focus on implementing the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
- Gain the extensive knowledge on sustainability strategies in global business, developed and communicated in line with the generally accepted international frameworks and standards (e.g. the UN Global Compact, ISO 26000, GRI, etc.) and approaches for addressing the ESG challenges at the operational level;
- Grow personally and professionally through experiential learning opportunities, based on learning from inspiring case studies and reflecting upon the interaction with ethical, responsible and sustainable management practices from the cutting edge ESG experts;
- Develop critical and appreciative view of the world, facilitate cultivation of the sustainability mindset, by taking into account contemporary debates on the role of business in society and nature with respect to local culture, global challenges, and opportunities;
- Implement an experiential learning research team project “ESG-Dashboard” as a digital sustainability management tool for the selected company.
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.
- Define sustainable development, the 17 SDGs, and key global challenges shaping the business environment.
- Explain the stakeholder theory, materiality assessment, and the process of integrating ESG principles into corporate strategy.
- Identify the key differences between CSR, sustainability, and ESG, and analyze national ESG trends in Russia.
Course Contents
- Topic 2.Ethics and Economic Rationality in Sustainable Development
- Topic 3. Human-Centric Approaches and Leadership in Sustainability
- Topic 1: Introduction to Sustainable Development & Corporate StrategyIntroducion of the concept of sustainable development (SDGs), global challenges, and the role of business in achieving sustainability. It covers integrating sustainability into corporate strategy, stakeholder engagement, materiality assessment, and the evolution from CSR to ESG. Key frameworks like the UN Global Compact and Russian national ESG trends are discussed.
- 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 * Lecture Attendance Requirements + 0.4 * Seminar Participation (12 seminars) + 0.1 * Written Assignments (two 50-word answers) + 0.3 * Video Justifications (two 1-minute videos) + 0.2 * Final Exam (20 multiple-choice questions)
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
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- 9781000204766 - Isabel Rimanoczy - The Sustainability Mindset Principles : А Guide to Developing а Mindset for а Better World - 2020 - Routledge - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2574742 - nlebk - 2574742