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Teaching Sustainability
Case Studies
Evaluating strategies and initiatives in self-declared "green businesses" is often a good way to approach learning about sustainability in the business domain. Interviewing the business executives and entrepreneurs behind these companies would offer insight and primary source material to inform research papers and projects. Try assigning students to look into these local businesses as case studies:
- Mark Miller Subaru/Subaru of America
- Boeing Salt Lake
- Staker Parsons (Brigham City)
- Le Croissant Catering
- Caffe Ibis (Logan)
- Resorts: Park City Mountain Resort and Sundance Resort
- Treasure Mountain Inn
Related Guides
Research Tips
Most books and journal articles that discuss integrating sustainability into a business curriculum are found in management education and education for business journals and subject headings. Try the following terms and searches to find more materials:
Sustainable management
Green businesses
Business ethics -- Study and teaching
Sustainable development -- Study and teaching
Business education
Environmental management -- Study and teaching
Sustainability in Higher Education
Strategies: Books
Note: You will need to be on-campus or logged into CIS from off-campus to access these resources.
Effectively Integrating Ethical Dimensions into Business Education by ISBN: 9781617355806Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Teaching Business Ethics for Effective Learning by Call Number: eBookISBN: 1567204821Publication Date: 2002-05-30
Management Education for Global Sustainability by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781607522348Publication Date: 2009-07-01
Teaching Business Sustainability: From Theory to Practice by Call Number: eBookISBN: 1874719543Publication Date: 2004-08-01
Teaching Business Sustainability: Cases, Simulations and Experiential Approaches by Call Number: eBookISBN: 187471973XPublication Date: 2007-03-01
Strategies: Peer Reviewed Articles
Note: You will need to be on-campus or logged into CIS from off-campus to access these resources.
- A Framework for Teaching Social and Environmental Sustainability to Undergraduate Business MajorsThe authors outline an undergraduate exercise to help students more fully understand the environmental and social justice aspects of business sustainability activities. The students achieve a deeper understanding of related issues facing organizations, what some organizations have done to date, and what remains to be done.
- Teaching sustainability to business students: shifting mindsetsThe paper provides a summary of sustainability concepts as applied to business practices and describes how this is used in teaching sustainability to business students.
- Incorporating Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Into a Business Course: A Shared ExperienceThe author discusses how corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability were incorporated into a business course by using 4 assignments, a project with a CSR question, 7 ethics cases, and 17 ethics scenarios tied to a corporate code of ethics. The author also discusses student evaluation of CSR learning experience, strengths and weaknesses of the assignments, and teaching tips
- Practical wisdom: making and teaching the governance case for sustainabilityThis paper examines the larger role that business education must begin playing in developing a generation of new leaders with the skills required to tackle the complex and increasingly serious challenges of sustainability. It posits a new framework for cultivating more responsible ways of thinking and acting in our current and future business students.
- Integrating Sustainability in Management and Business Education: A Matrix ApproachThis paper presents a matrix of options for integrating sustainability in management and business education; the matrix also includes the curriculum.
