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POST GRADUATE PROGRAM IN MANAGEMENT (AY 2024-26)

COURSE PLAN

Course Code CSL120302 Term III


Title of the Course: Sustainability and Business Credit: 1/2
Course Prerequisites Genuine desire and ability to learn and Email ID [email protected]
unlearn and to critique prevalent
practices and trends.Explore creative
alternatives
Faculty Facilitator (s) Prof Sanjeeb Kakoty Contact No. 238008/9436923316

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Climate emergency is a reality that can be ignored only at our own peril. The world is witnessing
environmental disasters with increased frequency and grater intensity. Sustainability is no longer something
that can be confined to activists keen on preserving the environment. Governments and businesses are
waking up to the need to position sustainability into the core of their activities. Without a doubt, it is a
realization that the fallout of climate change , the rapid depletion of natural resources and the breaching of
planetary boundaries cannot but imperil the future. Can business survive without incorporating the basic
tenets of sustainability and at the same time can sustainability be successfully propagated without the help
from the corporate world? A basic understanding of both the universe and the natural eco system is
imperative to promote sustainability and examine how the inter connectedness of life and ecological balance
can be achieved while also promoting human well being.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
1. Analyze the multiple strands and the major concepts that contributes to the sustainability debate
2. Analyze specific practices of mankind that has acted as drivers to breaching planetary boundaries
3. Identify and highlight models and technology that have used to promote sustainability
4. Examine ethical and technological solutions to meeting the sustainability challenge

PEDAGOGY / TEACHING METHODOLOGY:

Mix of lectures, cases either video or written, discussions reflections and exercises.

EVALUATION:
COMPONENT WEIGHT %
Individual Assignment 10
Group Activity 20
End Term 20
TOTAL 50

TEXT BOOKS:

• Hawken, Paul, (2005) The Ecology of Commerce, Harper Collins Publishers


• Michael Braungart and William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle, Vintage Book
• Edward Wilson, The Future of Life, Vintage Books
• Klein, Naomi (2014) , this Changes Everything, Penguin Randomhouse
• ADDITIONAL BOOKS / READINGS:
• Anderson, Ray ,(2009) , Confessions of a Radical Industrialist, Random House Business Books
• Heinberg, Richard, (2011) The End of Growth, New Society Publishers, Canada.
• Carson, Rachael (2000) The Silent Spring, Penguin Books
• Gunter Pauli, Blue Economy
• E.F.Schumacher , Small is Beautiful, Vintage Books

IMPORTANT GUIDELINES TO THE PARTICIPANTS:


• Go through the 'Syllabus' in the MOODLE section of the web-site(http://iims.eportal/) in order to find
out the Reading List.
1. Get your schedule and try to pace your studies as close to the timeline as possible.
2. Get your on-line lecture notes (Content, videos) at Session Notes section. These are our lecture notes.
3. Check your course update on Moodle regularly
4. Keep updated with the posts, assignments and examinations conducted on the Moodle
5. Be regular, so that you do not suffer in any way
6. Academic Dishonesty, Class attendance, Etiquettes: As per PGP Ex handbook.
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) (should be between 3-6)
At the end of the course a participant is expected to accomplish the following course learning outcomes (CLO).
Alignment of CLO with the Program Goal/Objectives and Assessment of the learning outcomes of the course is
presented below.

Course Learning Outcome LOs) Program Objective (PO) Assessment Tool(s)


CLO1: Analyze the major PO3b: Demonstrate Group activity
concepts that contributes to the awareness about the
sustainability debate sustainability challenges in
decision making
CLO2: Identify and highlight PO1c: Anticipate and adapt to Individual assignment
models and technology that may disruptions catalyzed by
be used to promote emerging technologies
sustainability.
CLO3 Examine how Ethics can PO3a: Recognize ethical End Term
be brought Centre stage to help issues in different global
meet the sustainability business contexts
challenge

Sessions Topics / Subtopics Pre-reads/ Post reads/Asynchronous links/ Case


Learning Outcomes mgd44iscussion / Conversation/ Roleplay
1& 2 Sustainability Perspectives: critical Edward Wilson, The Future of Life
understanding of multiple realities
3&4 Understanding the Sustainability Paul Hawken, The Ecology of Commerce
Challenge Edward Wilson, The Future of Life
Planetary Boundaries natural limits and Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything
exponential growth
5&6 Some voices of Reason Rachael Carson, The Silent Spring
E.P.Schumacher, Small is Beautiful

7&8 Re thinking and re designing Gunter Pauli, Blue Economy


Ray Anderson, Confessions of a Radical
Industrialist
9 &10 Presentations
End term Examination

CONSULTATION TIME

Timing
Sanjeeb Kakoty By appointment please.

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