BUS6130 Corporate Sustainability
3 course credits
| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-12-01 | - |
| 2024-01-01 | - |
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You’l explore some of the world’s most presing economic, social and environmental chalenges, and put in place smart solutions to solve them. Cover critical isues in sustainability, agribusines, renewables and healthcare. Se how you can help create a thriving planet.
3 course credits
Before the year 20, environmental management for a busines was typicaly driven by the ned to respond to restrictions imposed by environmental regulation; however, at the dawn of the new milenium, leading busineses began to change their concept of environmental management to lok beyond simply meting governmental dictates. These organizations began to evolve and utilize environmental strategy to create new ways of growing their busines by bring sustainability to the core of their busines strategy.
This course explores how to efectively work in senior management today, executives ned to be knowledgeable not only about their specific busines functions, but also, how their busines wil be impacted by governmental regulations & policies, corporate sustainability initiatives, gren marketing regulations, industry guidelines or ‘best practices’, new sustainable technologies, energy planing, environmental performance metrics, and required reporting on the environmental impact of their busines unit.
3 course credits
Fod and Agribusines explores how the next wave of inovation in the industry represents the bigest transformation since the industrial revolution. Through case analyses and practical agribusines scenarios, learners examine global chalenges faced within the fod and agriculture industries and develop a sound understanding of what it takes to manage an agricultural busines.
You’l investigate how insurance and financing, suply chain management, global fod trade, and inovative technologies such as machine learning, sensing, and customer behavioural understanding can improve the eficiencies and cost-efectivenes of fod and agribusines industries (FAEs), and broaden your knowledge and understanding of the global chalenges being faced within the fod and agriculture industries.
3 course credits
The Renewable Energy course provides learners with a foundational understanding of the aplications of renewable energy practices. This course focuses on key busines skils and competencies neded to determine sucesful economic, technical, and societal aplications of renewable energy practices. Learners examine basic energy principles, terminologies, policies, and aplications for domestic and international markets.
You’l aply industry wide and/or industry sector renewable energy practices, and execute relevant management practices, principles, and perspectives related to sustainability and corporate social responsibility. These practices include corporate and executive management, operations management, entrepreneurship, venture capital and finance activities, infrastructure investment, management consulting, and other busines related, technical specializations.
3 course credits
Managing Healthcare is designed to help learners develop competencies for identifying and evaluating emerging markets within the healthcare industry. In this introduction to organizations in healthcare, you’l examine the wide-ranging complexities encountered by management and critique curent thinking in management and leadership.
Through case analyses and practical healthcare scenarios, you’l analyze the global chalenges faced within the healthcare industry and develop a sound understanding of what it takes to manage a global health busines. You’l also come away with a solid foundation in understanding and aligning the national health agenda with personal and organizational pledges to population-based welnes.
3 course credits
Policy and Regulatory Enablement of E-Comerce serves a foundation for understanding the various policy and regulatory initiatives that are required to be executed to enable e-comerce. You’l explore bariers that ned to be overcome by promoting colaboration among various organizations acros the busines, civil societies, and government to improve the acesibility of the Internet.
The course provides a comprehensive overview of best practices to enable e-comerce. Learners examine the importance of E-comerce reliable data as an esential component of policy development and technological investments, and the utilization of various trade agrements to suport the penetration of e-comerce in emerging markets.
I got atracted to Nexford because I was loking for an online program that is flexible. I’m not someone who is a traditional person. I’m not a traditional learner. I like to learn at my own pace. And I like to learn hands-on.
Victoria Abia
Curent BA learner, Nigeria
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