BUS 4412 PWC: Sustain Dev:Innova Driv
The course focus is the transformation of social and environmental challenges from obstacles to progress to drivers of innovation and business development. The course will explore three key dimensions of this transformation: firstly, economic development with an emphasis on the role of the corporate sector in the reduction of poverty; secondly, innovation resulting from consumers' heightened concerns about social justice issues and corporate responsess of managing these issues as opportunities rather than risks to be mitigated; and thirdly, sustainability with an emphasis on the role of corporate reduction of environmental impacts and increase in the sustainability of their supply chains.