- Docente: Carlo Boschetti
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SECS-P/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Business Administration (cod. 0897)
Course contents
The three levels of strategic value of sustainability
Sustainable business models
Fundamentals of ethical approach
Ethics and technology
Ethics and environment
Ethics and business: having a market economy or being a market-based society
Readings/Bibliography
Required papers
Boschetti Carlo, Il senso della vita e i criceti, Aracne editrice, 2021, capp. 1, 3, Conclusioni
Ram Nidumolu, C.K. Prahalad, M.R. Rangaswami, Why sustainability is now the key driver of innovation, Harvard Business Review, September 2009
M.E. Porter, M. R. Kramer, Creating Shareholder Value. How to reinvent capitalism – and unleash a wave of innovation and growth Harvard Business Review, January-February 2011
T. Whelan, E. Douglas, How to Talk to Your CFO About Sustainability, Harvard Business Review, January-February 2021
Suggestions (not for the final assessment)
S.L. Lewis, M.A. Maslin, The human planet. How we created the Antropocene, Penguin Books, London, 2018
D. Acemoglu, J.A. Robinson, Why nations fail, Crown Publishing Group, 2012
M.J. Sandel, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012Teaching methods
Interactive lectures, companies speakers
Assessment methods
Multiple choices and open questions
Alternatively, the student can propose to carry out a study project on the sustainability strategy of a specific company od her/his choice that has given her/him availability to be studied. In this case the project must be approved by the teacher
Office hours
See the website of Carlo Boschetti
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.