Discover sustainability opportunities and risks with IMD professor of Global Leadership and Sustainability, Francisco Szekely. Learn how to implement a new business model for sustainability in your business.

Staying profitable in today’s business environment is no easy task – to do it you need to understand how sustainability fits into your strategy. 

This program guides you to:

  • Understand business sustainability and why it is so important today for you and your company

  • Identify sustainability risks and opportunities for your business

  • Discover what leading companies from different industries are doing to successfully respond to today’s sustainability demands, and realize how to apply it to your own business

  • Develop a new business model for sustainability

Online course overview:

You begin this eight-week digital program with a comprehensive understanding of sustainability principles and best practices for your business. You focus on how to create a winning business strategy while at the same time keeping sustainability at the heart of your organization. You learn how to compete with other sustainable businesses and to both inspire and engage with internal and external stakeholders. Sustainable innovation is also studied and applied directly to opportunities in your organization. Finally, you gain an in-depth understanding of how to create value throughout your supply chain.

Individual assignments, virtual group work, case studies, readings, video summaries,personalized feedback from your program coach, peer reviews with other participants from across the globe, and personal reflection moments – are all combined to stimulate your thinking, unlock new insights, change habits, and firmly embed the learning.

You will complete Building Business Sustainability with a rich understanding of what it means to be a sustainable leader and an action plan of how to introduce sustainability into your business operations.

Benefits:

  • Increase your competitiveness by maximizing the actions of your company to meet consumer demand for sustainability

  • Create more value for your supply chain and all your stakeholders

  • Discover a new way of thinking for your business focusing on company aspirations versus what you want to avoid

  • Develop effective tools to innovate sustainability


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