Bachelor 2024/2025

Business ethics and sustainable development

Type: Compulsory course (International Bachelor's in Business and Economics)

Area of studies: Economics

Delivered by: Department of Management

Where: St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management

When: 1 year, 4 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Instructors: Глебова Софья Валерьевна, Ekaterina Ivanova, Svetlana V. Pavlovskaya, Aleksandra Sazhina, Maxim Storchevoy

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course provides contemporary business ethics and CSR knowledge and skills which is required by every manager:•Good knowledge of basic ethical theory (utilitarianism, deontology) as well as CSR and sustainability concepts and ability to apply it to various business dilemmas. •Understanding of psychological and situational reasons for unethical decisions and ability to work with these factors in practice•Ability to design and use of mechanisms of managing ethics in the market (competition, state and self-regulation) and in the company (compliance systems and sustainability management).