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    Dept.

    of Management
    Courses in English
    Course Title: Sustainable Management
    681.1.125

    Course Instructor: Dr. Avshalom M. Adam

    This course introduces theory and practice of sustainable development and energy
    management: both are explored as they related to business, government, non-profits,
    local citizens and the global village.
    The course discusses the methodology of the Triple Bottom Line (TBL)the delivery
    of economic, social, and environmental performanceand instructs students to apply
    models, tools, best practices and frameworks to incorporate social and environmental
    aspects into daily practice.
    Course design enables future business women and men to provide guidance,
    leadership and support to organizations in the development and successful execution of
    initiatives in sustainable development and energy management. The course will include
    lectures, case studies, guest speakers and community-based projects to illustrate
    issues, challenges and opportunities related to sustainable development and energy
    management.

    No prerequisites are required.


    3 credits.
    Target Students: Under Graduate across the Business School.

    Since this is a multi-disciplinary course further list of reading will be given at the
    beginning of the course and in its duration.

    Requirements:
    Full attendance and participation.
    Assignments: a brief mid-term essay 10%, class assignments 00%, a team presentation
    20%, and a final exam 00%.
    List of required readings may be adjusted, changed or updated during the course.
    week essentials readings and assignments
    1 Course overview, goals and requirements; course Savitz, Introduction and
    structure. The need for management sustainability. Chapter 1.
    Managerial dilemmas and free choices, the fat-man
    dilemma: decision mechanisms structure within
    external and internal constrains
    2 Stakeholder theory and methodology and analysis Weiss, Chapter 2
    3 The role of the firm. Friedman, 1970; Freeman,
    2007.
    4 Sustainable management: Theory and practice -the Weiss, Chapter 5
    case of Exxon Valdez?
    5 Environmental Values and Environmental ethics. Bunge, chapters 1-3
    6 Reinventing Environmental Regulation Marcus et al, 111-147
    The case of Intel, Merck and Weyerhaeuser Further readings TBA
    7 The role of humans in climate change: Conflicting Savitz, chapter 4- 6
    theories Further readings TBA
    8 Intended and unintended consequences of green Merton, 894-904.
    technologies: the case of biofules. Scharlemann and Laurance,
    43-45
    Zehner, 2011
    Further readings TBA
    9 Sustainable management local and global regulations Roseland, Chapters: 1-4
    10 Risk management and sustainability: Regulation and Savitz, Chapters 5, 11
    Law Further readings TBA
    11 Environmental Programs strengths and weaknesses Roseland, chapters 5-7
    12 Students presentations Porter and Kramer, 2011
    13 Students presentations Porter and Kramer, 2011

    Readings
    Mario Bunge, 1989. Treatise on Basic Philosophy, Vol 8, Ethics: The Good and the
    Right, Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company.
    Edward Freeman, January 2007. Managing for Stakeholders Available at SSRN:
    http://ssrn.com/abstract=1186402 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1186402A.A.
    Marcus, D.A. Geffen and K. Sexton. 2002. Reinventing Environmental Regulation:
    Lessons from Project XL. Washington, C: Resources for the Future.
    Milton Friedman, 1970. The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase its Profits.
    New York Times. New York: 122-126.
    Porter E. M. & M.R. Kramer 2011. "Creating Shared Value". Harvard Business Review.
    62-78
    Robert K. Merton, 1936. The Unanticipated Consequences of Purpositive Social
    Action. American Social Review. Vol. 1, Issue 6. 894-904.
    Mark Roseland. 2005. Toward Sustainable Communities: Resources for Citizens and
    Their Governments. NY: New Society Publishers.
    Andrew W. Savitz, 2006. The Triple Bottom Line. San Francisco: Jossy-Bass A Willy
    Imprint.
    J.P.W. Scharlemann and W. Laurance, 2008. How Green are Biofules?, Science. Vol. 319. 43-
    44.
    Joseph W. Weiss, 2003. Business Ethics, Canada: Thompson.
    Ozzie Zehner, 2011. Unintended Consequences. In Green Technology, edited by Paul
    Robbins, Dustin Mulvaney and J. Geoffrey Golson, 427-32. London: Sage.

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