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Alexander Cooper is gearing up to lead an expansion strategy for the scrappy and super successful car sharing service, Uber. While the company has not been without its controversy, it is making headway in far off places like India…
The Kerovka simulation is a highly innovative software tool that is used as part of an organised workshop, either in a classroom or in remote format, to deliver an intense experience that helps participants with a wide variety of experience levels to develop skills for dealing with challenges such as managing crisis scenarios, and leading responsibly & sustainably.
Outside the classroom, business is happening in a complicated world. Social and environmental issues are bombarding businesses with new risks, costs, and challenges—as well as new investment and innovation opportunities. You need to get up to speed.
MBA EDGE briefings give you a primer on the most important issues of our day and the ways they intersect with business risks and opportunities.
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This case tackles the issue of recycling of poly-coated beverage cartons in the United States. In 2008, recycling access to the commodity was low, putting the industry at risk of losing market share to other forms of packaging…
The Kellogg Company has made aggressive changes to its policy for the sourcing of palm oil for its products since 2011. In addition, since 2008 Kellogg has been a corporate member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), an organization and certification scheme that promotes sustainable production of palm oil.
Can Tesla replicate its success in the United States to become a global leader in the rapidly growing electric vehicle market?
15.871 and 873 introduce you to system dynamics modeling for the analysis of business, strategy, and public policy problems. You will learn to visualize a business organization or environmental system in terms of the structures and policies that create dynamics and determine performance.
System dynamics allows us to create ‘microworlds,’ management flight simulators where space and time can be compressed, slowed, and stopped so we can experience the long-term side effects of decisions, systematically explore new strategies, and develop our understanding of complex systems. We will use simulation models, case studies, and management flight simulators to develop principles of policy design for successful management of complex strategies. Case studies of successful strategy design and implementation using system dynamics will be stressed. We consider the use of systems thinking to promote effective organizational learning and policy design.
Each of our Erb Institute toolboxes is designed to help you better implement decision-making strategies for sustainability at your company. These toolboxes cover a wide variety of topics and are routinely updated to keep up with changing innovations and trends.
This course explores the growth of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investing with a particular focus on the role of public capital markets in helping to address sustainable development goals (https://sdgs.un.org/goals). ESG is increasingly mainstream – for example, the largest global network of investors, the UN-sponsored Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has now over 3,000 signatories managing with over US$100 trillion in assets (https://www.unpri.org/about-us/about-the-pri). However, there is an active debate regarding every aspect (definitions, measurement, regulation, etc.) with claims of “greenwashing” and also a backlash against ESG which strengthens the need for a critical and evidence-based exploration of the field. This course covers some of the major ESG investing approaches (screening, thematic, integration and engagement) in capital markets and takes a global perspective. It includes a special module on Climate Finance that covers the physical, transition and regulatory risks of climate change and the need to finance a shift to a net-zero carbon economy. A few guest speakers will provide additional ideas and tools to interpret the case studies and enrich the class discussion.
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Each of our Erb Institute toolboxes is designed to help you better implement decision-making strategies for sustainability at your company. These toolboxes cover a wide variety of topics and are routinely updated to keep up with changing innovations and trends.
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Learners play the role of the General Manager of a 500-room, 4-star city-center hotel with the goal of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. As a first major step, the hotel needs to reduce its emissions by 50% over the next 7 years and at the same time optimize its financial performance. Each year, learners must prioritize and select up to 3 initiatives from a wide-ranging and evolving list that impact the hotel’s emissions and business performance. Initiatives are divided into energy, purchasing, and management categories. Learners must also make management decisions about expenditure on staff environmental awareness training and guest communication. Feedback is provided to learners in terms of the hotel’s emissions and their underlying drivers (including energy and water consumption, waste generation, food consumption and purchased products), as well as the hotel’s financial performance after each round of decisions. Altogether, the hotel’s emissions are reduced through a combination of technical solutions and behavioral changes by staff, customers and suppliers. Business performance is impacted through investments in initiatives, changes in operational costs, and potential improvements in revenue per available room (RevPAR). To take into account recent technological developments or to tailor the simulation to specific local conditions, instructors are able to tailor key settings of the simulation, including the location of the hotel (London, Mumbai, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Singapore) and other model parameters (including the efficiency of solar panels, emissions associated with electricity consumption, and embodied carbon of purchased products).
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This course will introduce students to core concepts, learnings, and frameworks in risk and environmental management, with a focus on climate change-related risks. The class will explore a variety of approaches to risk analysis, drawing from practices across financial actors and economics sectors.
The course is broadly broken into three parts, organized into: (1) risk identification; (2) communicating and framing of risk; and (3) risk management. Classes involve a combination of lecture, student participation, guest lecture, and simulation.
Google has been widely criticized for its data center energy usage. Google Energy, a recently created subsidiary, has successfully responded to this criticism but must now formulate an expansion strategy. If successful, the…
Are “wide-scale distribution” and “sustainability” mutually exclusive? This case explores this question through the examples of Honest Tea, one of the fast growing companies in the Ready-To-Drink market, and Coca-Cola…
This case study examines the design and implementation of an Integrated Project Management System to achieve the ultimate goal of First Ore on Ship (FOOS) by November 30, 2014, by Paulo Castellari, CEO of the Anglo American subsidiary Iron Ore Brazil.