Business and Sustainability
Overview
Business operates in an increasingly complex setting. Environmental and social concerns are at the forefront of the new issues which are stretching the responsibilities of business and demanding new types of management thinking. These concerns first affected established industries in forestry products, chemicals and mining sectors. Today, however, they are impacting other manufacturers, retailing and service industries, and the financial sector.
One of the first of its kind in North America, the Erivan K. Haub Program in Business and Sustainability at Schulich is at the cutting edge of current best practice. The business and sustainability specialization equips students for general management and senior corporate positions, as well as for work in specialist environmental management or consulting posts.
For more information about the Program see the Centre of Excellence in Responsible Business website.
Business and Sustainability
Tel: (416) 736-5268
Fax: (416) 736-5762
E-mail: bsus@schulich.yorku.ca
Faculty
Faculty members from the Schulich School, York’s Osgoode Hall Law School and the Faculty of Environmental Studies have gained recognition internationally for teaching and research in their respective fields.
| Name | Position |
| Program Directors (alternating) | |
| Andrew Crane | Professor of Strategic Management/Policy George R. Gardiner Professorship in Business Ethics |
| Bryan Husted | Professor of Strategic Management/Policy Erivan K. Haub Chair in Business & Sustainability |
| Dirk Matten | Professor of Strategic Management/Policy Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility |
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| Markus Biehl | Associate Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems Associate Dean, Academic |
| Burkard Eberlein | Associate Professor of Strategic Management/Policy |
| Brenda Gainer | Associate Professor of Marketing Royal Bank Professor of Nonprofit Management Director, Nonprofit Management and Leadership Program |
| Irene Henriques | Professor of Economics and Sustainability |
| Alan J. Richardson | Professor of Accounting |
| Perry Sadorsky | Associate Professor of Economics |
| Stepan Wood | Assistant Professor |
| Detlev Zwick | Associate Professor of Marketing |
General Concentration
REQUIREMENTS
- 12.00 credit-hours of elective courses consisting of:
- 6.00 credit-hours of prerequisite courses
- 3.00 - 6.00 credit-hours of recommended courses listed on the next tab
- up to 6.00 credit-hours of additional courses (with the permission of the Program Director, students may take courses in the Faculty of Environmental Studies and Osgoode Hall Law School not listed on the next tab)
PREREQUISITE COURSES
BSUS 6200 3.00 Managing Ethics and Social Responsibility
BSUS 6300 3.00 Management Practices for Sustainable Business
BSUS 6500 3.00 Business Strategies for Sustainability
In addition, it is possible to take an independent study towards the concentration with the consent of the Program Director.
Graduate Diploma
REQUIREMENTS
- taken concurrently with an MBA or MES degree (students must satisfy both Graduate Diploma and MBA or MES requirements)
- diploma must be completed within one term of completing graduate program degree requirements
- 12.00 credit hours of elective courses consisting of:
- 6.00 credit-hours of required courses below
- 6.00 credit-hours of recommended courses listed on the next tab
- normally complete a 12 week internship in an approved organization
- MGMT 6100 3.00 Strategy Field Study at a site approved by the Program Director
REQUIRED COURSES
BSUS 6300 3.00 Management Practices for Sustainable Business
BSUS 6500 3.00 Business Strategies for Sustainability
Study Options
- Concentration
- Post-MBA Diploma in Advanced Management
- Graduate Diploma in Business and the Environment
| Course Code | Course Title |
| SCHULICH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | |
| ACTG 6951 3.00 | Accountability and Sustainability Reporting |
| BSUS 6200 3.00 | Managing Ethics and Social Responsibility |
| BSUS 6300 3.00 | Management Practices for Sustainable Business |
| BSUS 6500 3.00 | Business Strategies for Sustainability |
| BSUS 6600 3.00 | Sustainability and Carbon Finance |
| ECON 6170 3.00 | Environmental Economics for Business |
| ETHC 6950 1.50 | Ethics and Finance |
| MGMT 6200 3.00 | Business Administration and the Law |
| MGMT 6500 3.00 | Sustainable Value Creation |
| MINE 6100 3.00 | Managing Growth in the Global Mining Sector |
| MINE 6300 3.00 | Toward Sustainable Mining |
| MKTG 6480 3.00 | Nonprofit Marketing and Resource Development |
| NMLP 6350 3.00 | Social Purpose Business: Alternative Economic Models |
| NMLP 6400 3.00 | Microfinance and Social Impact Investing |
| ORGS 6350 3.00 | Managing Change |
| ORGS 6400 3.00 | Power and Politics in Organizations |
| ORGS 6420 3.00 | Crisis Management |
| ORGS 6560 3.00 | Negotiations |
| PROP 6550 3.00 | Sustainable Cities: Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Strategic Choices |
| PUBL 6140 3.00 | Business and Government |
| FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES | |
| ENVS 6114 3.00 | Sustainable Development for Canada |
| ENVS 6115 3.00 | Ecological Economics |
| ENVS 6144 3.00 | Action Learning |
| ENVS 6148 3.00 | Environmental Negotiation and Mediation |
| ENVS 6155 3.00 | Program Implementation |
| ENVS 6164 3.00 | Environmental Law |
| ENVS 6179 3.00 | Climate Change |
| ENVS 6186 3.00 | Theory and Methods of Impact Assessment |
| ENVS 6281 3.00 | Consulting Skills |
| OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL | |
| LW 2880 3.00 | Environmental Law |
| LW 3490 3.00 | Resource Management |
| LW 3590 3.00 | Transnational Corporations and Human Rights |
| LW 3830 3.00 | Climate Change Law |
| LW 4880 3.00 | International Environmental Law: Protection of the Global Environment |
| LW 5170 3.00 | Corporate Governance |
Executive Education
The Schulich School of Business has developed and run numerous successful executive education programs under the banner of the Sustainable Enterprise Academy (SEA). A program founded by the Erivan K. Haub Program in Business and Sustainability at the Schulich School of Business in 1999. SEA and sustainability executive training in general is now going to be led through the Schulich Executive Education Centre, and inquiries about course development and offerings should be directed to
Elaine Gutmacher,
Director, Operations,
Schulich Executive Education Centre
E-mail: egutmach (at) schulich.yorku.ca
Telephone: 416-736-2100 ext. 22386
In addition, to the Business Leader Seminars which SEA had hosted, it also led in the development of a specific Academy for the K-12 Education sector. The resulting Sustainability and Education Academy (SEdA) hosts a series of Education Leader Seminars targeted directly to leaders in the school system. More information about this program can be found on their website.