Course 2017-2018 a.y.

Classes: 15 (I sem.) - 16 (I sem.) - 17 (I sem.) - 18 (I sem.) - 21 (I sem.) - 22 (I sem.)

Instructors:
Class 15: STEFANO POGUTZ, Class 16: MICHAEL RUSSO, Class 17: CHRISTIANE BODE, Class 18: ANNE JEANNE MARIE JOSEPH SERVANTIE JACQUEMINET, Class 21: MAURIZIO ZOLLO, Class 22: XING KELLY CHEN

Sustainable development goals, ecological problems such as planetary boundaries and climate change, globalization of supply chains and growing social and ethical conflicts affect business and decision-making processes. Consequently, companies are increasingly required to respond to these challenges developing adequate policies and practices.
The seminar aims at providing students with a first understanding of the ethical and strategic implications of corporate responsibility and sustainability. Adopting a strategic perspective, the seminar intends to familiarize participants with the complexity of these decisions, and with the business opportunities resulting from a proper stakeholder management approach. We accomplish these objectives through engaging students in active learning based on highly interactive lectures, mini-case studies coupled with plenary discussions, and by providing evidences thanks to managers and practitioners’ leadership examples.

• Defining business ethics, CSR, and corporate sustainability.
• Understanding the challenges: from climate change to social and ethical conflicts.
• A strategic approach to CSR and sustainability: competitive opportunities, legitimacy and risks.
• Dealing with complex decisions, dilemmas and trade-offs in CSR and sustainability.
• How to adopt CSR and sustainability practices: transforming existing corporations and starting new firms.
• Learning from managers: putting CSR and sustainability into practice.

For attending students
Assessment based on the participation in class activities and on individual written exam (pass/idoneo or fail/non idoneo mode).

For non attending students
Assessment based on individual written exam with multiple choice questions (pass/idoneo or fail/non idoneo mode).

Please remember that in order to get the credits, the registration to the exam is mandatory.
No class exchanges are accepted.