Explore sustainability issues, trade-offs, and strategies as you gain the skills to drive sustainable business initiatives.
6 weeks,
excluding orientation
6–8 hours per week,
self-paced learning online
Weekly modules,
flexible learning
1
The knowledge to navigate the multifaceted sustainability challenges facing businesses today, using the lens of the PROMISE framework.
2
A strategy for implementing sustainability initiatives and engaging others in the development of sustainable business practices.
3
Insight into how new technologies can solve sustainability issues and drive solutions.
4
An understanding of how to navigate the tensions between pursuing sustainability initiatives and optimizing business performance.
This program is suited to business leaders and strategic decision makers who hope to drive their organization forward in a responsible, ethical way. It also applies to those involved in the day-to-day functions of a business who want to play a role in proposing strategies or company-wide policies.
Over the duration of this online program, you’ll work through the following modules:
MODULE 1
World Challenges: Environment, Inequality, Poverty, and Social Well-being
Explore the choices that businesses and society are making in the context of social and environmental sustainability issues.
MODULE 2
The Standard Playbook: Managing for Sustainability
Review the stakeholders and strategies involved in traditional approaches to sustainability management.
MODULE 3
The PROMISE Framework: Tensions, Trade-Offs, and Impact
Learn to utilize the PROMISE framework to navigate complex and multifaceted sustainability issues.
MODULE 4
Next-Generation Strategies for Sustainability: Technology and Innovation
Discover how new technologies, strategies, and changes in human behavior, in conjunction, can drive innovative sustainability solutions.
MODULE 5
Market Failures and Institutions: Changing the Rules of the Game
Learn the causes and costs of key types of market failures and how these may be remediated.
MODULE 6
Management for the 21st Century: Agents of Change
Work through the stages of developing a strategy to enact positive and sustainable change.
Please note that module titles and their contents are subject to change during course development.
Roberto Rigobon
Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management and Professor of Applied Economics, MIT
Rigobon is a Venezuelan economist whose areas of research are international, monetary, and development economics. Rigobon focuses on the causes of balance-of-payments crises, financial crises, and the propagation of them across countries — the phenomenon that has been identified in the literature as contagion. Currently, he studies properties of international pricing practices, trying to produce alternative measures of inflation. He is one of the two founding members of the Billion Prices Project, and a co-founder of PriceStats.
In addition to his work at MIT, Rigobon is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Census Bureau’s Scientific Advisory Committee, and a visiting professor at IESA.
Jason Jay
Senior Lecturer and Director, Sustainability Initiative, MIT Sloan School of Management
Jay teaches courses on leadership, strategy, and innovation for sustainable business. His research focuses on how people navigate the tensions inherent in the quest for sustainability, as they simultaneously pursue their own interests and the flourishing of human and other life. Jay’s work includes in-depth case studies of cross-sectoral collaboration and hybrid organizations that combine social and business goals, which have been published in the Academy of Management Journal and the California Management Review. He also contributes to the MIT Sloan Management Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and GreenBiz. As a facilitator and consultant, Jay has helped advance the sustainability strategies of global companies like Biogen and Bose. He has also consulted on leadership development and organizational change for major corporations and NGOs, including BP and the World Bank. Jay holds an AB in psychology, a master’s in education from Harvard University, and a PhD in organization studies from MIT Sloan.
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