Bridging Planet and Profit – Climate Change and Sustainability in an Introductory Management Class

Keywords: sustainability, capitalism, climate change

Abstract: There is much public focus on the challenges of climate change and much academic and professional discussion of the importance developing goals and strategies that balance profitability and long-term sustainability. Nevertheless – and critically - many business schools do not directly address these issues. Occasional references are usually sidebars or addenda. The session seeks to promote teaching about climate change and sustainability through reflection on the experience of an introductory management class in which the challenges of climate change and approaches to sustainability are treated as integral, not peripheral, to business.