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Corporate Sustainability
Last Updated: 2026-02-05 16:31:16
Abstract
The lecture explores current challenges of corporate sustainability and prepares students to become champions for sustainable business practices. The module combines asynchronous videos, live sessions, with a group work phase between weeks 5-10 of semester during which students deep-dive into one of 10 sustainability challenges.
Objective
Students - assess the limits and the potential of corporate sustainability for sustainable development - develop competencies that are useful in the context of corporate sustainability and beyond (analytical competency, critical thinking, problem solving) - recognize and realize opportunities through team work for corporate sustainability in a business environment - present strategic recommendations in teams
Content
Corporate Sustainability is the flagship course of the Group for Sustainability and Technology at D-MTEC. In this course, students learn about key concepts in corporate sustainability and develop skills to implement them in the real world. The course prepares students for making well-informed sustainability decisions in their future careers. The course uses constructive alignment to bring the various innovative teaching and learning elements (e.g., case-based experiential learning, reflective thinking and blended learning with videos and quizzes) into a coherent transformational journey. Students can now flexibly, efficiently, and effectively acquire the conceptual foundations that are essential for a substantial understanding of corporate sustainability. For part of the course, students work in groups to complete a set of graded assignments designed to guide them into a deep dive on a selected corporate sustainability challenge. Please note that full participation in this part is essential, so make sure you are available. Furthermore, these group assignments count towards the overall grade for the course. For further details on the course structure etc. visit the following link: http://www.sustec.ethz.ch/teaching/lectures/corporate-sustainability.html
Resources
Lecture Notes
Presentation slides will be made available on Moodle after lectures.
Literature
Literature recommendations will be distributed via Moodle, and are available from the start of the course.
General Information
- Language
- English
- Levels
- BSC , DS , MSC , NDS
- Frequency
- Yearly recurring
Examination
- Type
- end-of-semester examination
- Mode
- written 60 minutes
- Aids
- Closed book
- Digital
- The exam takes place on devices provided by ETH Zurich.
Course Components
| Type | Title | Time & Place | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| lecture with exercise | Corporate Sustainability |
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2 h weekly |
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