Sustainable Management school training courses in Austin, TX (public, in-house or online)

This course explores operational drivers in organizations that impact sustainability of infrastructure, strategy and process flows across supply chains. Interdependencies among human resources, innovation and sustainability are considered. Issues of management systems, sustainable design and future business opportunities are examined. Comparative case analyses of best-in-class organizations are performed.

One well-known business saying is that you can’t manage what you can’t measure. With the growing importance of sustainable management, business leaders must find the appropriate tools and techniques for measuring their organization’s sustainability performance.

This course reviews the measurement of sustainable management practices and performance.

After completing this module, you should be able to:

Explain how managers can model and measure sustainable mana...

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Sustainability refers to the use of ecosystems and their resources in a manner that satisfies current needs without compromising the needs or options of future generations.

A sustainable business is one that generates profits for its owners, protects the environment, and improves the lives of the people with whom it interacts.

This program covers several key topics, including:

The reasons for sustainability’s increase in popularity
The connection between the environ...

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Society faces three interlocking problems as we move deeper into the twenty-first century—global population that will reach 10 billion by 2050, depletion of several key natural resources, and climate change and its likely ecological consequences. The field of sustainability policy and environmental management is designed to systematically address these challenges. It encompasses several foci including environmental science, environmental economics, industrial ecology, sociology, political scienc...

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This course aims to address the real life challenges of environmental sustainability by building change agent capacities of students who operate within myriad institutional and other contexts. The course begins by exploring the wide range of institutionally related environmental impacts and the associated roles of individuals within these settings. Harvard University is used as a primary case study to illustrate institutional practices, including procurement, utility supply and consumption, buil...

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