Sustainability: Climate, Environment, & Energy Pathway
Managing the world’s resources in a sustainable way is increasingly central to competitive dynamics and value creation. Sustainability: Climate, Environment, & Energy pathway offers students a map to curricular resources for leading enterprises in natural-resource-based industries (especially energy, food and agriculture, and mobility), and for integrating sustainability into enterprise and investment decisions. The selected courses build on the core MBA curriculum as a foundation and offer extensions that allow students to develop deep expertise in the economics and strategy of energy markets, corporate sustainability, as well as sustainable investing and entrepreneurship. The pathway combines different learning approaches including conceptual frameworks in academic courses, experiential learning and interdisciplinary collaboration opportunities. It is supported by a rich set of co-curricular activities. The Sustainability: Climate, Environment, & Energy pathway prepares students for careers in the traditional and renewable energy sectors, other natural-resource-based industries, corporate sustainability and consulting, and corresponding entrepreneurial and investment roles.
Faculty sponsors: Klaus Weber (MORS) and Meghan Busse (Strategy)
Note: The ISEN courses listed on this pathway are pre-approved as credits that will count toward your MBA, however you must fill out this form to petition a request with the Kellogg Registrar's Office.
1. Foundations
- Business Strategy: STRT 431-0
- What Every MBA Should Know About Climate: STRT-959-5
- Microeconomic Analysis: MECN 430-0
- Ethics and Leadership: PACT 460-0
2. Specialized Professional Toolkits
- The Economics of Energy Markets and the Environment: STRT 458-0
- Public Economics for Business Leaders: Federal Policy: PACT 470-0
- Carbon Removal, Capture, and Use: ISEN 432
- Government Incentives: ISEN 452
EXPERIENTIAL
- Value Creation through Sustainability: Managing the Corporate Transformation: SSIM-938-0
- Decision-Making for Sustainable Business: SSIM-947-5
- ESG Investing and Sustainability Reporting: ACCT-459-0
- Corporate Innovation and New Ventures: ENTR-903-0
- Managing Firms for Shareholders and Society: FINC-484-5
- Climate Activism and Its Business Impacts: ISEN 472
EXPERIENTIAL
- Sustainability Lab:
SSIM 636-0 - Social Innovation Practicum
SSIM 452-0
- Impact Investing and Sustainable Finance
FINC 946-0 - NUvention: Energy
ENTREP 474 - Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital
FINC 445-0 - Early Stage Impact Investing
SSIM-940-0 - Private Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure Development and Finance
ISEN 440
EXPERIENTIAL
- GIM: Impact & Sustainable Ventures: INTL-473-0
- Venture Lab: FINC-615-0 & Private Equity Lab: FINC-639-0