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About the Course

The achievement of a balanced economic, social and environmental development - as expressed in the UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development - is recognized as one of the major challenges humanity is facing today. What is less clear is whether and how organizations can generate business opportunities and value for their stakeholders while tackling such challenges. In this course, thought leaders in a wide variety of management and economics fields illustrate how to assess and seize the opportunities offered by these global emergencies. They will offer new ways to understand the purpose and the logic of success of the business enterprise in this new context, providing ideas and examples on how to manage the transition process to realize the value creation potential from corporate sustainability for all involved stakeholders. Learning objectives The course will allow you to: - Understand What the macroeconomic and microeconomic consequences of both climate changes, poverty, hunger, gender or race discriminations, lack of communication between the State, Civil Societies, and businesses, etc are. - Understand Why it is important for businesses to tackle sustainability issues in order to create more and better business opportunities; - Learn How each individual, organization and system can start to analyze its behaviors and change towards more sustainable practices and models....

Top reviews

EP

May 25, 2020

This is an extremely detailed and informative course, ideal for someone looking to expand their knowledge of sustainability issues and the strategy required to address them in a corporate context.

YG

Nov 6, 2023

Great insights! The course is holistic and covers many aspects of the business day to day decisions. It fosters new discoveries towards the path of becoming a Sustainable Enterprise. Recommended.

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By Mona A A

Jul 19, 2020

good

By Shankar M

Mar 10, 2022

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By TUSHAR U

Jan 27, 2021

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By Bradley M

Jun 25, 2020

A well put-together course in which I felt a lot was learnt. Having a range of tutors run the 'lessons' was very useful in avoiding the course feeling repetitive and also beneficial in getting different views and opinions on how best to tackle the issue of corporate sustainability. Bringing in company founders was especially interesting, as well as some of the readings from well-known professors.

My only piece of constructive criticism would be that some of the videos weren't as easy to understand and or follow. The voice-text function worked well though and helped to limit this slight problem.

By Arnaud B

Nov 23, 2023

The content of this course was excellent and covers all the elements. I can recommend to anyone interested in sustainability on the strategic level. A few notes: - For someone working in or with companies in the EU I would certainly recommend to read up on the CSRD, ESRS guidelines and relevant legislation although it is also good for persons not involved in that. - The checking of the progress and understanding could have a bit more depth. - The transcripts are unformatted texts which is difficult for reuse without editing.

By Tony C

Jul 8, 2022

I thought this cause was very good. It considered possibly all of the very important issues facing businesses today.

Perhaps it could have included a few more success stories. I think drilling down deeper into a sustainable business would have reinforced more of the issues illustraded in the course.

The presenters were very good And explained thier sections very well.

I think I could build a structure of actions around a plan that could be followed by a business towards a sustainable business.

I enjoyed thank you.

By Roberto

Jan 27, 2020

I really liked the course. Specific:

- The number of participants, with different points of view.

- Real examples, 100% counted by the protagonists.

- The approach of the final work.

I would suggest, to improve as much as possible:

- A greater focus on the Business Case - would greatly help participants build Business Case in their work environments/companies. If companies with good sustainable performance are profitable, won't there be more tools to make a powerful approach?

By AP

Jul 21, 2024

I really feel I am more competent on the matter after this course. At first, it may seme too theorethical and academical, but it all comes together at the end and a very sound and thorough view of sustainabilty in business is provided, form many different perspectives. Some improvements would be welcomed in updating the content to include the most recent developments on the matter such as EU CSR Directive and ESG reporting.

By Timothy L

Jun 8, 2020

I really enjoyed the course as an introduction to Corporate Sustainability. The course gives a good overview of the whys towards a transition to sustainability and how to prepare for one. I think a deeper emphasis on the concrete actions to be taken while pursuing a transition towards sustainability would be useful as a add-on to the course.

By Jurriaan B

Oct 14, 2022

Very broad overview of the different elements of Corporate sustainability strategy, and especially the panel discussions were nice. Important to note is that the course is slightly below intermediate I would say. Therefore, there were many things discussed that I knew already.

Overall, good and informative course.

By Giulia P

Jan 23, 2021

I enjoyed the course very much, although some of the concepts are repeated too extensively and, sometimes, the lessons may sound redundant. Overall, I really appreciated the different points of view proposed by the diverse teachers and their practical examples. Thank you Bocconi for this complete course.

By Natalia N

May 22, 2020

Very informational course! A lot of useful and trustworthy websites were provided. All of the articles and books were very interesting and engaging. It would be helpful to see some course managers' responses to the final work though. Thank you very much for the course! It was a pleasure!

By Giuseppe M

Jan 5, 2021

It's a very structured course, interesting, engaging and comprehensive. I've had some difficulties following some lectures because of the limited ability of the lecturer to deliver his/her content in front of a camera...but I could read the transcript anyway...

By lea h

Sep 21, 2020

The course covered a very wide range of topics on CSR from accounting to discrimination, closed-loop economies. It was very interesting but there was a lot more work to provide than is first stated. Some lectures were a lot more interesting than others too

By Luca C

May 16, 2020

My First course on Coursera. It is well organized and the content is very understandable and interesting.

If you have just a little interest in sustainability I suggest you try this course. You'll find it a good starting point in understanding the topic!

By Katelyn S B

Sep 21, 2022

I really enjoyed learning more about Corporate Sustainability through this course. There were some typos and other issues with translation that I've submitted to Coursera and will hopefully be corrected. Thank you for offering this!

By ADARSH K S

Aug 2, 2023

It has been a fantastic experience over the last few weeks with the professors of Bocconi University. The course was filled with various practical examples, allowing me to immerse myself in the learning process.

By Ezzeddine J

Jan 11, 2023

A very interesting course with interesting content and perspectives. The reference material provided at the end of each week was a great addition and I personally enjoyed reading each one of them.

By Jio P D

May 18, 2020

The course is very interesting and overall well structured. Some lectures could be improved, but definitely worth the effort for everybody interested in sustainability and sustainable business.

By Motilal C

May 9, 2022

This is a excellent course for people who are intrested in starting their carrer in Sustanibility . Each concept is explained in a cronological manner covering past, current and future .

By David J F R

Feb 6, 2024

Good course. Nice overview of different perspectives and strategizing for incorporating sustainability. The slideshows were nice summaries of the lectures. Case studies were interesting.

By Yana B

Jun 14, 2020

I recommend this course to all those who are interested in the topic of sustainability and corporate management. It will be great to have more practical examples and case studies.

By Alessandro L S

Apr 7, 2021

Very interesting general course, but I expected more concrete example and especially tools and specific techniques in order to assess and implement sustainability in companies.

By Serena B C G

Oct 7, 2020

The content and insights of the course are really good and relevant in the context of Corporate Sustainability, but some videos are too long which ended up demotivating me

By Bert D

Nov 6, 2019

Interesting material, dense but instructive and very well illustrated with practical case studies. Week 5 I found a bit too abstract. All in all - a course worth taking !