Sustainability Management and Innovation MSc

Program Overview

Sustainability Management and Innovation MSc

Overview

The Sustainability Management and Innovation MSc is a postgraduate degree that focuses on the challenges and opportunities that societal and environmental issues create for organizations. The course is designed to develop the capabilities needed by the graduate labor market, integrating practice-based learning and projects alongside academic learning and business theory.

Course Structure

The course incorporates interdisciplinary modules from multiple business fields, including strategy, operations management, digital disruption, and innovation, marketing, and finance, together with environmental studies, such as carbon footprinting and environmental impact assessment.

Semester 1

• We begin by exploring the challenges and opportunities that societal and environmental issues create for organizations as exemplified by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• We consider sustainable management in all its dimensions, focusing on real-life problems, such as reducing or changing energy sources, or how to influence the behavior of suppliers.
• We consider the importance of green marketing – how to promote products or services based on their environmental benefits.

Semester 2

• Our aim is to equip you with the skills and knowledge to build readiness for change within various types of organization, then implement change successfully.
• We’ll consider how to improve corporate sustainability reporting, looking at the methods and frameworks to monitor carbon emissions and use of natural resources and energy.
• As well as employee relations, we look at wider stakeholder communities and the need for companies to encourage sustainable supply chains, green logistics, and procurement.

Modules

• Strategies for a Sustainable Future
  • This module explores the challenges and opportunities that societal and environmental issues create for organizations as exemplified by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
  • Students will explore sustainable management in all its dimensions, learning from real-life examples, focusing on examining key problems and developing innovative solutions.
• Marketing for a Sustainable World
  • This module explores the development of a new sustainability-oriented marketing mainstream rather than co-existing as an alternative to the conventional marketing mainstream.
  • You will develop an understanding of the existing strengths of conventional marketing with the sustainability perspectives of ecological and ethical marketing and use insights from relationship marketing to develop a new marketing paradigm.
• Digital Disruption and Sustainable Innovative Business Models
  • The module aims to develop students’ understanding of how new opportunities are offered for business innovation and sustainability in emerging and existing sectors and the strategic challenges in exploiting these emerging opportunities in order to transform them into sustainable economic strategies.
• Leadership and Change Management for a Sustainable Future
  • Organisations aiming to become sustainable require a close alignment of policies and practices with social and environmental priorities.
  • This demands change management competencies and leadership approaches that demonstrate an understanding of the effects of change on individuals and engaging them collaboratively through the change journey.
• Collaboration, Cooperation and Green Supply Chains
  • This module is focused on organisations’ eco-systems and the necessity for companies to build partnerships and collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders in order to deliver sustainability goals.
  • Particular emphasis is placed on sustainable supply chains and green logistics and procurement.
• Sustainability in Practice
  • Innovative thinking, creative problem-solving, and integrative research approaches are at the heart of this experiential and application-oriented module.
  • The module supports students in developing knowledge and key competencies to investigate and report on issues in current sustainability management and practice.
• Sustainability Analytics and Reporting
  • This module provides the methods and frameworks in order to measure and report on an organisation’s carbon emissions, usage of natural resources and energy to GRI standards.
  • The module will also cover the strategic importance, place, and role of sustainability reporting.
• Research and Consultancy
  • This module enables students to develop essential research, consultancy, and project management skills, to equip them to perform to a high standard working in real organisational contexts.

Professional Recognition

The Carbon Trust, an expert partner for businesses to reduce their CO2 emissions to zero, participated in the creation of this MSc.

Entry Requirements

• A minimum of a lower second-class honors degree (2:2).
• If your first language is not English, you should have an IELTS 6.5 overall, with a minimum of 6.0 in each component.
• Applicants are required to submit one reference.

Tuition Fees

• UK tuition fee: £12,900 (Price per academic year)
• International tuition fee: £18,000 (Price per academic year)

Assessment

• Central to the Sustainability Management and Innovation MSc is the notion of developing a deep understanding of the relationship between organisations, society, and the environment.
• To this end, assessment is centred on critical enquiry and reflection on both societal and environmental problems in the 21st century.
• It is designed to evaluate your capacity to develop, both individually and collectively, a problem-solving approach and to communicate possible solutions and innovations in a persuasive, professional manner, both verbally and in writing.

Facilities

• The Learning Platform
• Lecture theatres
• Library
• Bloomberg Financial Market Suite
• Digital Marketing Lab
• Meeting spaces
• Cafe

Supporting You

• Study support – workshops, 1-2-1 support, and online resources to help improve your academic and research skills
• Personal tutors – support you in fulfilling your academic and personal potential
• Student advice team – provide specialist advice on a range of issues including funding, benefits, and visas
• Extra-curricular activities – volunteering opportunities, sports and fitness activities, student events, and more

Course Location

Our Marylebone Campus has benefited from a multi-million-pound refurbishment resulting in new workshops, digital studios, and development of the Marylebone Library. The campus is home to Westminster Business School and our award-winning Architecture, Planning, and Tourism courses.

Westminster Business School

Based in the heart of London's political, media, and financial services, Westminster Business School has excellent industry links and a strong commitment to social enterprise.

Our courses are accredited by professional bodies including the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), and Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Our practical teaching relates learning to the real world, and we develop graduates who are ready to respond to contemporary business challenges.