Sustainability Principles, ESG Risk, and Value Creation in Organizations

This course examines principles of organizational sustainability and introduces the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues that influence our understanding of firm performance. We will explore the ESG data sets that measure those principles and develop a perspective on the potential of sustainability strategy to help reduce risk, create durable competitive advantage, expand notions of governance, and respond to quick shifts in public culture and global markets. The class combines lecture and class discussion; coursework is primarily focused on introducing and building technical skills that practitioners use to respond to multiple stakeholders, including investors, regulators, employees and markets.