Course11010115332 lectures
Business and Sustainable Development
Prof. Trupti Mishra · IIT Bombay
About
With the advent of emerging climate economy, it is essential for companies to be aware of not only the threats to business-as-usual from changes in the physical and regulatory environments, but also the unique opportunities to achieve competitive advantage from acting proactively in this area. The underlying rationale for the course is to present a vision of the way in which firms include sustainable development as a key component of the decision-making process. It covers briefings on specific sustainable development topics from a business perspective, strategies, tools to incorporate the principle of sustainability into everyday business activities and business opportunities arising from sustainable development.
INTENDED AUDIENCE : Bachelors and Master’s in management, Commerce and Social Sciences/final year engineering
INDUSTRY SUPPORT : This would be relevant for all these industry professionals who are engaged in initial stage of their sustainability journey.
Lectures
Week 1
- Lecture 1 : Introduction to Sustainable Development and Sustainability
- Lecture 2 : Evolution of Sustainable Development
- Lecture 3 : Importance of Sustainability
- Lecture 4 : Sustainability - A mega trend
- Lecture 5 : Environment, Human & Economy
- Lecture 6 : Robert Solow’s Conceptualization of Sustainability
- Lecture 7 : Introduction to Firm’s Response
- Lecture 8 : Sustainable Products
Week 2
- Lecture 9 : Cleaner Production
- Lecture 10 : Cleaner Production Illustrations
- Lecture 11 : Life Cycle Assessment
- Lecture 12 : Understanding LCA Through Examples
- Lecture 13 : Design for Environment
- Lecture 14 : Sustainability Reporting
- Lecture 15 : Current Status of ESG in Indian Companies
Week 3
- Lecture 16 : Corporate Strategy
- Lecture 17 : Competitive Environment Strategies
- Lecture 18 : Eco-Branding
- Lecture 19 : Competitive Environmental Strategy Matrix
- Lecture 20 : CSR and Social Sustainability
- Lecture 21 : Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)
- Lecture 22 : Sustainability Standards
- Lecture 23 : Sustainability Standards
Week 4
- Lecture 24 : Green Supply Chain
- Lecture 25 : Examples of Green Supply Chain
- Lecture 26 : Environmental Regulations and Policy Instruments
- Lecture 27 : Market based instruments in India
- Lecture 28 : Environmental Laws and Disclosure Regulations
- Lecture 29 : Risks and Opportunities
- Lecture 30 : Sustainable financial product and services
- Lecture 31 : Sustainable Value Framework
- Lecture 32 : Course Summary
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Bombay
- Department
- Management
- Teacher
- Prof. Trupti Mishra
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Business and management
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
- NPTEL states: "Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike / CC BY - NC - SA", beside a BY-NC-SA badge.
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