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Advice received on teaching sustainability at the master level

Jane, take a look at AIM2Flourish. The organization has 100+ professors that help each other and their students teach sustainability in their courses - following the 17 sustainable development goals from the United Nations. – JM

From David Chandler <DAVID.CHANDLER@ucdenver.edu>

Hi Jane,

I saw your email below this morning and wanted to reply with some potential resources for your class.

I recently published the fourth edition of my textbook – Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/strategic-corporate-social-responsibility/book245163). As the title implies, the book is about CSR, but it is tackled from a strategy perspective. The focus is on what I term "sustainable value creation" – the creation of value for the firm's broad range of stakeholders over the medium to long term. I believe the concept of "value creation" appeals to all functional areas in the business school. Every department (finance, marketing, accounting, whatever) focuses on creating value. As such, I think it is essential to frame the arguments around CSR from this multidisciplinary perspective.

As a complement to the textbook, I write a CSR Newsletter that I send out 2-3 times a week during the long fall and spring semesters. Past Newsletters are archived on my blog (http://strategiccsr-sage.blogspot.com/) and are intended to be a resource for both instructors and students. The Newsletter is free, so if you would like me to add your email to the distribution list, please let me know.

Finally, my colleague Michael Hendron (copied here) and I have created an online CSR simulation (http://www.strategiccsrsim.com/). The simulation is written from the same perspective as my textbook, but is designed as a stand-alone teaching tool that draws on issues related to CSR, business ethics, and stakeholder theory, broadly defined. In the simulation, students (in groups or individually) act as the Corporate Responsibility and Ethics Officer (CREO) for a fictional cellphone company, K-Tai, Inc. As the firm's new CREO, the students work within a budget to set-up their office, employ personnel, and respond to various scenarios that are presented to them over multiple years of operations. The scenarios emerge from the firm's wide range of stakeholders across all aspects of operations, and the CREO's responses have consequences at the individual, firm, and industry level.

Please let me know if any of this is of interest and we can arrange a time to talk.

Take care

David

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David Chandler, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Management

Co-Director, Managing for Sustainability Program

University of Colorado Denver Business School

tel: (303) 315-8462

From J. Alberto Aragon-Correa

Hi Jane,

You might want to have a look to the ONE division webpage here http://one.aom.org/index.php/online-resources/teaching-resources.

The ONE email list is also a good place to look for some additional advice if necessary.

I hope that it helps.  Best wishes, Alberto

J. Alberto Aragon-Correa

Professor of Management

Surrey Business School, University of Surrey (UK)

j.aragon@surrey.ac.uk

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/sbs/people/jalberto_aragoncorrea/

Editor in Chief of Organization & Environment, a SAGE leading journal

Editor of the Cambrige Book Series on Organizations and Natural Environment

Past Chair of the ONE-Academy of Management Division

From Rushiun Liou <r.liou@tamuct.edu>

You may find a range of sustainability courses offered at various schools in the following links.

1. MIT: http://mitsloan.mit.edu/sustainability/courses

2. Penn State http://sustainability.psu.edu/learn/students/courses

3. http://www.thebestschools.org/rankings/10-best-online-mba-sustainability-degree-programs/

Would you share what feedback, if any, you receive from BPS listserv?

Thanks!

Rushiun

Ru-Shiun Liou, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Management

Texas A&M University-Central Texas

From Olga Hawn <Olga_Hawn@kenan-flagler.unc.edu>

http://moore.sc.edu/about/sustainableenterprisedevelopment/pageprize/pageprizecurriculumlist.aspx

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Best regards,

Olga Hawn, PhD

Assistant Professor in Strategy and Entrepreneurship

Sustainability Distinguished Fellow

UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

From Steven Zhou Shijin.Zhou@nottingham.edu.cn

I got master from LUMES, which is  master program in Sustainability Science. I am not sure what you are looking for. However, I think LUMES website will give you some idea to start. 

http://www.lumes.lu.se/

From Geoff Martin G.Martin@mbs.edu

The Patagonia case from HBS is great and there is also a good video about Yvon Chouinard (from Patagonia) on youtube.  Yvon wrote a book called "Let My People Go Surfing" which sets the standard for sustainability.  The shared value concept (see Tedtalk by Michael Porter) is also helpful.

Good luck!

Kind regards,

Geoff Martin

Associate Professor of Strategy

Melbourne Business School

From Jyoti Bachani bachani.jyoti@gmail.com See attached file