Corporate Sustainability Management: Risk, Profit, and Purpose
Published: The program is offered multiple times each year. Visit the program page to learn more.
Description
The Corporate Sustainability Management course teaches executives and business leaders how to integrate sustainable practices into their business strategy. You’ll learn the importance of corporate sustainability, study frameworks and standards of sustainable businesses, and identify sustainability risks and opportunities for your business. By the end of the six-week program, you’ll have the knowledge you need to build a strong corporate sustainability strategy that drives progress and profits.
Course Takeaways
- Gain insights from world-renowned sustainability experts and faculty.
- Study frameworks, standards, and guidelines that promote successful strategy implementation.
- Analyze how capitals and decision-making frameworks determine the value of sustainability risks and opportunities.
- Build your own corporate sustainability tool kit and integrate it within your business.
Meet the Instructors
Dr. Cort works at the intersection of sustainability and investor value. Over the course of 20 years, in consulting and academia, he has applied a scientific and economic lens to corporate social and environmental responsibility (or sustainability) in order to identify the tools, mechanisms, metrics and indicators that create the greatest value for investors, businesses and society. Todd has worked extensively with companies and investors across industrial sectors. His experience ranges from ‘on the ground’ implementation of sustainability programs to corporate level communication and investor strategy development. He has also worked extensively on integrated programs to meet regulatory requirements while promoting awareness and understanding of sustainability priorities through communications and engagement with communities, regulators, policy makers and internal stakeholders.
Todd has a courtesy appointment at the Yale School of the Environment. He serves as Faculty Co-Director for the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) and the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance (YISF). He serves on a variety of advisory boards including the JUST Capital Scientific Advisory Board and the PRIME Coalition Academic Advisory Committee and Merck Sustainability Advisory Committee. He is also currently Board Chair for Save the Sound, a regional environmental non-profit serving communities around Long Island Sound.
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