SCOPESCOPE (Sustainability Co-Creation Programme)

This seminar offers students opportunities to deepen their knowledge and skills to analyze the role of business to contribute to solving various sustainability challenges, especially global issues described in the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As governments alone cannot solve problems such as climate change, poverty, and various forms of inequalities, there is growing expectation for businesses to play more important roles. Businesses are expected to reduce negative impact across their value chains and solve various environmental and social problems with innovative management, products, and services. Through this course, students learn various efforts of global and local companies to solve challenges in the world and how they are realizing sustainable growth.

Students should aim at achieving the following goals:
(1)Learn global and local sustainability challenges and how companies are realizing their sustainable growth.
(2)Develop logical thinking skills to set hypotheses, collect necessary information, and test the hypotheses through systematic analysis on themes which students choose.

Among diploma policies,"DP3""DP4""DP5" is related

英語 / English

The course will mainly consist of discussions and presentations by students with instructor’s facilitation.
To acquire basic knowledge on global sustainability and roles of companies, students will review and present selected academic literature and various companies’ sustainability/integrated reports. If students have a specific research topic, they can present their research findings in class and further discuss with seminar members.

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]：Orientation

Introduction to the course Short lectures and discussions

Week 2[対面/face to face]：Reading academic literatures 1

Review and discuss “Creating Shared Value”(1)

Week 3[対面/face to face]：Reading academic literatures 2

Review and discuss “Creating Shared Value”(2)

Week 4[対面/face to face]：Reading academic literatures 3

Review and discuss “The Wise Company” (1) Chapter 4

Week 5[対面/face to face]：Reading academic literatures 4

Review and discuss “The Wise Company” (2) Chapter 4

Week 6[対面/face to face]：Reading academic literatures 5

Review and discuss Making Sustainability Work Chapter 1

Week 7[対面/face to face]：Reading academic literatures 6

Review and discuss Making Sustainability Work Chapter 2

Week 8[対面/face to face]：Presentation on students’ own research topic 1

Student presentation and discussions(1)

Week 9[対面/face to face]：Presentation on students’ own research topic 2

Student presentation and discussions(2)

Week 10[対面/face to face]：Presentation on students’ own research topic 3

Student presentation and discussions(3)

Week 11[対面/face to face]：Presentation on students’ own research topic 4

Student presentation and discussions(4)

Week 12[対面/face to face]：Presentation on students’ own research topic 5

Student presentation and discussions(5)

Week 13[対面/face to face]：Presentation on students’ own research topic 6

Student presentation and discussions(6)

Week 14[対面/face to face]：Presentation on students’ own research topic 7

Student presentation and discussions(7)

Students are expected to attend each class fully prepared. For students' own research topics, they are required to read materials and summarize key points on a regular basis. Instructor will provide students with support regarding what literature they should read and how they effectively conduct research.
If students want to maximize their learning effectiveness, approximately 4 hours for preparation for each class is required.

The textbooks to be reviewed will be determined based on the composition of the SCOPE Seminar participants (ratio of repeated participants to first-time participants).
In the fall semester of 2024, reviewing and discussing several chapters of the following literature is planned (literature is subject to change).

*Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer (2011) “Creating Shared Value” Harvard Business Review January–February 2011.
*Ikujiro Nonaka, Hirotaka Takeuchi (2019), “The Wise Company: How Companies Create Continuous Innovation” Oxford University Press
*Marc J. Epstein, Adriana Rejc Buhovac(2014) “Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental, and Economic Impacts (Second edition) “Routledge

We will also review some latest literatures, as new papers on business and sustainability are constantly published.

Reference will be introduced in class as appropriate.

Grading will be decided based on the following criteria:
(1) Active participation in class discussion: 50%
(2) Students’ presentations: 30%
(3) Student’s overall progress: 20%

Details will be explained in class.
Please note if students miss four or more classes, they cannot receive credit unless they have a justifiable reason.

The instructor will provide students with detailed feedback on presentations for their future improvement.

PC or other devices are required for student presentations.