Introduction
This course is a digital online course .
All sectors in society increasingly need people trained in interdisciplinary collaboration and complex problem-solving to address critical societal challenges, particularly related to sustainability transition and digital transformation in an international landscape. This is an applied strategy course.
Doing Sustainable Business is a final semester capstone course that aims to prepare students for strategic and entrepreneurial business development in practice. Students will learn to structure and analyze real world problems, utilizing skills, methods, and knowledge across academic disciplines and perspectives, and combine insights to arrive at well-argued decisions. The course will provide a learning process based on solving business cases in teams across specializations, thereby training students in interdisciplinary collaboration, teamwork, and oral presentation. All cases in the course will address major societal challenges, such as described by UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The course takes a strategic approach to real life business problems, enabling the utilization and integration of knowledge, methods, and skills gained across all bachelor courses and programs.
As a foundation to the case solution process, the course will introduce frameworks for developing sustainable firm-level strategies, contributing to the company’s ability to create and retain value.
During the semester, students will be exposed to a three-layer learning model. First, students will be provided with overall introductions to cases, business development frameworks, and case solution approaches. Second, a main part of the course consists of digital classes that focus on helping the students tackle the cases and team dynamics. Third, students will be offered a skills toolbox with videos to refresh knowledge, methods, and skills from previous courses to support case analysis, case solution, and presentation.