2024/2025

Responsible Business and Sustainable Development

Type: Mago-Lego

Delivered by: Department of Educational Programmes

When: 3 module

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Instructors: Liliana N. Proskuryakova

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 32

Course Syllabus

Abstract

At the time of VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world caused by planetary ‘grand challenges’ such as climate catastrophe, inequality, pandemics, social impact of supply chain practices, shortage of resources and increasing political turbulence, flourishing businesses around the world are encouraged to devote substantial efforts to responsible business practices, and sustainable development. That is why modern businesses with purpose are expected to act as agents of world benefit, serving all stakeholders, in making our planet a better place for living by contributing to the 17 United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and adopt the environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles. For conscious business leaders a paradigm of socially responsible management is becoming a new norm. This course provides key frameworks and tools for integrating responsibility and sustainability in corporate management, stakeholder participation, conscious culture, responsible leadership and sustainable practices. Designed with the application of the most innovative teaching methods focusing on experiential learning, the course aims to develop a new generation of responsible business leaders with a sustainability mindset that rests on a multi-disciplinary approach to learning and requires profound environmental awareness, development of systems thinking (knowing) combined with emotional (feeling) and spiritual (being) intelligence.