SCOPESCOPE (Sustainability Co-Creation Programme)

This course offers students opportunities to acquire knowledge and skills to analyze the role of businesses to contribute to global sustainability. There is growing expectation for businesses to play more important roles toward solving global problems such as climate change, poverty, and various forms of inequalities. More concretely, businesses are expected to work with their stakeholders to reduce negative impacts across their supply chains and deliver solutions to challenging sustainability issues. In this course, through active learning, including students’ presentation and class discussions, students will proactively learn the current status and challenges of corporate efforts regarding various sustainability challenges.

Students should aim to be able to achieve the following goals:
(1)Understand global sustainability challenges and how companies are tackling various problems to realize CSV(Creating Shared Value).
(2)Analyze actual business cases with analytical frameworks learned in class.

Among diploma policies,"DP3" is related

英語 / English

The class consists of lectures, students’ presentations, and discussion.

Feedback on assignments submitted by students will be provided in class or through the Learning Management System.

あり / Yes

なし / No

授業形態/methods of teaching：対面/face to face

※各回の授業形態は予定です。教員の指示に従ってください。

Week 1[対面/face to face]：Overview of business and sustainability (1)

Understand why sustainability matters for business.

Week 2[対面/face to face]：Overview of business and sustainability (2)

Understand the relationship between sustainability challenges and business.

Week 3[対面/face to face]：Elements of sustainability and key concepts of business and sustainability

Understand the elements of sustainability and then understand key concepts of business and sustainability, including ISO26000, CSR, CSV, SDGs, ESG and the Paris Agreement.

Week 4[対面/face to face]：Corporate sustainability and stakeholders

Understand why companies need to communicate with their stakeholders and meet their needs.

Week 5[対面/face to face]：Sustainability and business strategy(1)

Understand why and how sustainability needs to be integrated into business strategy.

Week 6[対面/face to face]：Business and human rights (1)

Understand human rights issues in business and how companies are addressing them.

Week 7[対面/face to face]：Business and human rights (2)

Understand human rights issues in the supply chain through case studies.

Week 8[対面/face to face]：Business and human capital

Understand the relationship between business and human capital.

Week 9[対面/face to face]：Climate change and business (1)

Understand the climate change issues which are having a major impact on business and how companies are responding to them.

Week 10[対面/face to face]：Climate change and business (2)

Learn corporate climate change strategies through various case studies.

Week 11[対面/face to face]：Climate change and business (3)

Understand the TCFD disclosures which increasing numbers of companies are rapidly responding to.

Week 12[対面/face to face]：Sustainability and business strategy (2)

Review case studies of companies successfully integrating sustainability elements into business strategy.

Week 13[対面/face to face]：Sustainability and business strategy (3)

Review case studies of companies successfully integrating sustainability elements into business strategy.

Week 14[対面/face to face]：The price companies had to pay for not considering sustainability (Teachings of Minamata disease)

Learn the history of Minamata disease and understand its causes, damage, social and economic impact, etc.
Understand how a series of wrong corporate decisions and practices caused a devastating effect on people and the community.

Students are expected to attend each class fully prepared by reading textbooks and references. Also, students are required to complete all assignments on time. If students want to maximize their learning effectiveness, approximately 4 hours study for each class is required (2 hours for preparation and 2 hours for review).

Academic literature to be used as textbooks will be introduced during the orientation.
Several chapters of the following books will be reviewed.
Marc J. Epstein “Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts Second Edition” Routledge

Reference will be introduced in class as appropriate. Below are some of the reference.
*Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer (2011) “Creating Shared Value” Harvard Business Review January-February 2011.
*Takashi Yorifuji, Toshihide Tsuda and Masazumi Harada(2013) “Minamata disease: a challenge for democracy and justice” Late lessons from early warnings: science, precaution, innovation, EEA Report No 1.

Grading will be decided based on the following criteria:
(1) Active class participation (making comments and asking questions in class): 30%
(2) Students’ presentation (on average two times/course): 35%
(3) Final writing assignments: 35%

Please note if students miss four or more classes, they cannot receive credit without a justifiable reason. Even with a justifiable reason, if students miss four or more classes, their grading may be adjusted.

Per students’ request, the instructor will provide individual feedback to help students improve their presentation skills.

When students make their presentation in class, they may need a device such as PC.