MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Source URL: http://dusp.mit.edu/subject/spring-2013-1506s

Managing Sustainable Businesses for People and Profits

This course examines opportunities and challenges involved in building and growing businesses that achieve high financial performance and returns to society. It is an anchor course for the social dimensions of sustainability and serves as an elective Sloans Sustainability Certificate program.  Through readings, cases, simulations and class visits from industry leaders, students explore the underlying principles and business practices that help to secure that alignment between business health and societal wellbeing. The class involves a team project with a firm that is addressing a sustainability challenge.

Room number: 
E51-149
Other info: 

Registration is through the Sloan School of Management. 

Credits: 
3-6-3
G
Schedule: 
T (4:00-7:00)
Attachments: 
PDF icon 15.06S Syllabus.pdf [1]
Semester: 
Spring 2013 [2]
Project Images: 
Linked: 
Yes
Subject number: 
15.06S
Joint subjects: 
ESD.278J
Instructor(s) (non-users): 
Thomas Kochan
Subject Level: 
Graduate [3]
Combined Level: 
1

Links:
[1] http://dusp.mit.edu/sites/dusp.mit.edu/files/attachments/course/15.06S%20Syllabus.pdf
[2] http://dusp.mit.edu/semester/spring-2013
[3] http://dusp.mit.edu/subject-level/graduate