First Steps in Making the Business Case for Sustainability
Become a Sustainable Business Change Agent,
The Business School at the University of Colorado Denver wants to help you become a change agent for sustainable business. We hope that with the skills and concepts you gain from this specialization that you will help your business reduce its social and environmental impact. Being a change agent is hard. It takes courage and passion and knowledge. To implement change also requires being able to make the case for that change in terms that people in your company or organization respond to and understand. After completing the specialization, you will be able to: * Discuss the threats and opportunities that major global trends such as climate change present to businesses; * Identify ways a company can improve its environmental and social performance; * Evaluate and compare companies’ sustainability activities and products; * Develop a business case for implementing sustainability investments; * Identify key criteria of green businesses and product design; * Be a change agent in your organization; * Understand emerging topics in sustainable business, including those in the public policy space. We're very excited about offering this MOOC specialization and hope it gives you the first step toward learning about and taking action to make the places you work and the products you buy more sustainable. Sustainable business changes daily with new products, innovations and ideas, so you will be important in keeping the class current. We look forward to learning from you as you take this green journey! ______
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| Rating | 4.5★ based on 14 ratings |
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| Length | 6 weeks |
| Effort | 5 weeks of study, 4 - 8 hours/week |
| Starts | Jul 3 (43 weeks ago) |
| Cost | $79 |
| From | University of Colorado System via Coursera |
| Instructor | John Byrd |
| Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Business Engineering Social Sciences Science |
| Tags | Business Physical Science And Engineering Environmental Science And Sustainability Leadership And Management |
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Additionally, I found the B-Lab assessment is useless and it seems that it's just a promotion of BCorp.It could be interesting to learn about it, but not to spend 45 minutes minimum on completing the questionnaire which nobody cares about.
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system rather tricky though
The peer-graded assignment system rather tricky though.
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A few errors, but still worth passing it Easy to follow, well laid out, great information.
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compulsory test area
BCorp assessment should be a choice made by a company and not a compulsory test area.
shift his/her career
Excellent course for starting idea of sustainable organization I think it is a great course for anybody, who is new to sustainability and wants to shift his/her career in this field.
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Definitely starts with the basics, which is what someone like me needed.
john byrd
However, I would like to say thanks for everybody who contributed to the realization of this course, and by all means to the senior instructor, John Byrd.
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| Rating | 4.5★ based on 14 ratings |
|---|---|
| Length | 6 weeks |
| Effort | 5 weeks of study, 4 - 8 hours/week |
| Starts | Jul 3 (43 weeks ago) |
| Cost | $79 |
| From | University of Colorado System via Coursera |
| Instructor | John Byrd |
| Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Business Engineering Social Sciences Science |
| Tags | Business Physical Science And Engineering Environmental Science And Sustainability Leadership And Management |
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