It is no longer acceptable for organisations to focus entirely on financial success if they are to be competitive on the global stage. As corporate scandals continue to make headlines, you will expand your strategic thinking beyond your organisation’s competitive financial environment to consider its broader impact on society. You will grapple with the conflicting outcomes of maximising financial return and societal impact as you develop the skills to create a balance that is sustainable. Through structured learning activities (video lectures, quizzes, discussion prompts and written assessments) you will gain an appreciation of how important sustainability will be for every organisation in the future – and how to achieve it.
This course is part of the Strategising: Management for Global Competitive Advantage Specialization
About this Course
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Try Coursera for BusinessWhat you will learn
Assess business decisions using metrics including financial maximization, shareholder value, customer well-being, and societal impact
Apply the principles and tools of complex systems thinking to sustainable business challenges and/or opportunities
Identify and evaluate strategies, processes and leadership techniques that enable successful sustainability transitions in a business context
Skills you will gain
- Sustainability
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Ethics
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
The nature of sustainability
Concerns with business impacts
Strategic responses to sustainability
The difficulty of being ethical in organisations
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- 5 stars81.57%
- 4 stars15.98%
- 3 stars2.43%
TOP REVIEWS FROM GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: BE SUSTAINABLE
Enjoyed learning this course which gives a very practical understanding of Sustainability and CSR, very structured and interesting!
This course provided some excellent frameworks and principles which can be incorporated into all sorts of business models. Very valuable indeed.
A really good introduction to sustainability in a corporate environment. This course really helped me get up to speed in an area that I am now directly involved in at my organisation.
Course has really helped me in developing conceptual understanding. Content is updated and to the point
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