Fundamentals of Corporate Sustainability
Succeed With Sustainable Choices
Sustainability in business promotes organizational innovation, enhances risk management, enables sustainable growth, and helps to secure feasible conditions for business in the long term. Sustainability competence has become a crucial part of the basic business competence of every successful company. What sustainability choices should be made in your organization to support growth in a sustainable way? How do you align business and stakeholder goals in a sustainable way? And do you identify the areas that promote sustainability in your own work?
The Fundamentals of Corporate Sustainability program is a comprehensive introduction to the themes associated with corporate sustainability and the reasons why they matter for business success. The program provides insights into sustainability opportunities, risks, and responsibilities and offers tools to value and assess these. Specific attention is paid to creating a synthesis of the different areas to understand their interrelations.
This program is one of Aalto EE's Sustainable Business programs. Check all sustainability programs.
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World-class facilitated learning sessions designed to accelerate change in the individual, and in the organisation
Learn from leading countries and companies in their sustainability plan and understand how you can align your sustainability target with business goals
Participants will engage in deep discussions exercises to open new ways of thinking
Benefits
The program delivers a Nordic perspective on sustainability issues while placing them in the global context. Systematic sustainability management and clear goal setting will help organizations achieve the goals of sustainable business. This program offers participants new ways to utilize sustainability as a strategic tool to increase competitiveness.
For
The training is suitable for those working in organizational development, expert, and management positions who are responsible for environmental and quality issues. It is also suitable for those working in human resources and communications units who develop business responsibility and promote stakeholder cooperation.
Contents and Schedule
Corporate sustainability at the heart of the strategy
The economic viability of corporate responsibility: how can you create value for stakeholders?
Stakeholders as developers of corporate responsibility
- Triple bottom line
- The principle of materiality
- Environment + economy + social responsibility
- Advantages and disadvantages of reporting
- Risk management
- The environment
- The social dimension
- Responsibility communication and reporting – future trends
Sustainability and innovation
- Sustainability strategy and competitiveness
- Sustainable leadership
- Disruption
- Innovation processes
- Open innovation
- Business models
Learning cycle 6 weeks
Including kick-off
24 hours of live sessions
Pre- and post-assignments
Independent study
Program Fee and Registration
Program Fee
The Early Bird fee of SGD 2,500 is valid until July 25, 2022.
From July 26, 2022 the fee is SGD 2,780.
Please contact us for a special fee if two or more people from your organization are registering for the program.
If you are an Aalto Executive MBA Alumni, please contact us for a special fee.
Registration
The registration is open until August 22, 2022.
Should you be interested to enroll in all three sustainability programs, please register here.