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While demands for improved sustainability performance and disclosure continue to rise, organizations continue to face hurdles in operationalizing sustainability. A focus will be placed on understanding how to meet these rising expectations and embed sustainability into core strategy. Prerequisite: BUS 716.

Students will explore how businesses are realigning or reinventing their organizations toward more sustainable business models. Developments that enable organizations to reduce their firms' negative environmental and social impacts while increasing profits and competitive advantage will be discussed. Students will also learn about management systems and initiatives for improving the environmental and social performance of organizations and the business system as a whole. Students with credit for BUS 649 or BUS 735 may not take this course for further credit.

Students will grow their capabilities to be in good relations with Indigenous Peoples, which is a necessary, and increasingly important, skill for business leaders working in settler colonial states. The capabilities that they learn can be applied in professional settings working in both Indigenous-led, non-Indigenous-led and partnering organizational contexts. Prerequisite: BUS 741.

Integrating sustainability considerations across your company’s value chain can help you to improve the impact your company has on the environment and on communities. A focus will be on understanding how to engage with and support suppliers and customers to improve their sustainability performance. We will leverage life-cycle and systems thinking to identify opportunities across procurement and product life-cycles. Prerequisite: BUS 716.

We will examine traditional marketing approaches through the context of Euro-American Centric histories, corporate social responsibility, Indigenous and other world views, creation of responsible goods and services, social and cause-related marketing, anti-racism in the marketplace, non-profit and voluntary sectors, green marketing, healthcare , and consumer financial decision making.

Strategic elements and underlying conceptual foundations of management of public-sector and nonprofit organizations will be explored. A focus will be on the nature of market failures and the purpose and potential of nonprofit and government organizations to solve societal challenges. Students will appreciate the dilemmas of managing with both financial and non-financial goals, and have an enhanced set of tools for strategic leadership in these sectors.

A responsible innovation incubator will provide practice generating responsible innovation concepts. Exploration of the creation and adoption of innovations intersect with an array of social and environmental issues such as climate change, human rights, and privacy. Students will identify key problems and needs associated with the dark side of innovation, shifting the mindset to view them as opportunities to challenge existing economic and organizational models. Prerequisite: BUS 714 and BUS 716.

Special topics in business administration.