We can no longer ignore humans’ negative impact on the planet. While some parts of the world still can close their eyes to shared and global sustainability challenges, the negative consequences of human activity in other parts of the world have increasingly detrimental effects on the planet and people’s lives. For example, in recent years, global warming is leading to heavy rainfall at unusual times of the year. As a result, in India, some farmers have lost their entire cotton harvest. We also begin to see and understand the negative impacts of global plastic use and waste on nature, animals, and the things we eat.
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Business Models For Sustainability
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Sustainable business model theory
Sustainable business model innovation
Tools and strategies for sustainable business model innovation
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哥本哈根商学院
Centrally located in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen Business School (CBS) is one of the largest business schools in Europe with close to 23,000 students. CBS offers world-class research-based degree programs at undergraduate, graduate, and PhD levels as well as executive and other post experience programs.

挪威经济学院
NHH Norwegian School of Economics is one of the leading business schools in Europe. NHH has an internationally recognized research environment and is the first choice of students who want to study business administration in Norway.
In close cooperation with the business community and society, we are developing new knowledge and creating values for a sustainable future. NHH has an international profile and cooperates with 195 universities and business schools in more than 50 countries. We have approximately 3,500 students and 400 employees.

ESADE Business and Law SchoolESADE Business and Law School
Founded in 1958, ESADE Business and Law School has campuses in Barcelona and Madrid and a presence in São Paulo, Lima, Mexico City, Bogotá, Santiago and Buenos Aires. It has partnership agreements with more than 100 universities and business schools worldwide. Each year, more than 11,000 students participate in its programmes (MBA and Executive Education, as well as bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes in business administration and law). ESADE Alumni, the school’s alumni association, is 50,000 members strong, including more than 17,500 members in management positions at enterprises around the globe. ESADE Business School also participates in the ESADECREAPOLIS business park, a pioneering innovation centre that brings together academia and the world of business. With a clear international orientation, ESADE is consistently ranked among the world’s top business schools by the leading rankings

ESCP Business School
The World's First Business School (est. 1819)
ESCP is the world's oldest business school and has educated generations of leaders and entrepreneurs. With its five urban campuses in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Turin and Warsaw, ESCP's true European identity enables the provision of a unique style of cross-cultural business education and a global perspective on international management issues. ESCP Europe welcomes 4,000 students and 5,000 executives from 90 different nations every year, offering them a wide range of general management and specialised programmes (Master, MSc, MBA, PhD and Executive Education).
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Introduction to Sustainable Business Models
Over the last two decades, it has become increasingly clear that our current ways of living and organizing are neither environmentally nor socially sustainable. Research shows that current climate changes and dramatic decreases in global biodiversity are a direct result of human activity.
Sustainability challenges take many forms. To give an example, research increasingly points to the negative consequences of our global love for plastic. Arguably, plastic has many amazing properties, including being recyclable. However, research also increasingly points to plastic’s detrimental effects on the planet and people—for example, through microplastics ending up in the oceans and then in the fish and seafood that we eat. Some problems that we face with social sustainably are a direct consequence of business activities—for example, exploitation of people in global supply chains in the form of unsafe working conditions or less-than-minimum-wage pay. Exploitation can also take the form of child labor, which continues to be a problem. Social sustainability challenges also arise as a result of global warming, with people already living in precarious conditions often carrying the biggest cost—for example, losing an entire cotton harvest due to heavy rain. In this module, we will begin to see how companies are part of the problem but also part of the solution to the sustainability crisis that the world is facing. Companies can play an all-important role in changing current unsustainable practices through innovative and sustainable products, services, and business models. In this module, we will briefly introduce you to some central problems related to our current ways of running businesses. We will introduce you to the concept of business models and discuss how a sustainable business model is different from what we might think of as a conventional or linear business model. Finally, you will also get to meet the CEO and CMO of the B-Corp Too Good To Go, who will share their experiences setting up a company with a mission of fighting food waste.
Sustainable Business Model Innovation
Building on the concept of sustainable business models introduced in Module 1, we will explore what innovation is and its benefits in this module. If we are to change towards more sustainable organisational practices, it is paramount that we innovate on products and services and the way we run businesses. You will learn about sustainable business model innovation, key principles of sustainable business model innovation, market evolution and the role of consumers, and various tools to develop sustainable business models.
We will exemplify the various aspects of sustainable business model innovation through a number of industry and business examples, such as Mobility, Fairphone, and Interface, while discussing their approaches to sustainability. We will also introduce you to the Danish print company KLS Pure Print. You will learn about KLS Pure Print’s journey from an old-school, traditional print business to becoming a front-runner in sustainable printing. Because of this shift, the company is still in business. Finally, we will also take a closer look at social innovation with Professor David Murillo from ESADE through a careful analysis of the UK-based Behavioral Insights Team (BIT).
Circular Business Models
In this module, Lars Jacob and Svening will take us on a deep dive into the concept of the circular economy. Through a number of examples from various industries, they will discuss the main differences between linear and circular economies, and they will explore some key characteristics of circular business models. Starting with a circular economy, they will introduce concepts such as the access and collaborative economy, the all-important role of collaboration and partnerships for sustainable futures, as well as different levels of “recycling.”
In this module, you will also have the chance to meet some of the brave front-runners of circular business models, like the Dutch jeans brand MUD Jeans, the French online marketplace for carpooling BlaBlaCar, and the Danish children’s clothing library Vigga.
Sustainability in Practice
In this module, we will further explore concepts introduced in this course’s previous modules. Our main focus will be on how companies work with sustainability in practice and what challenges and opportunities they face in doing so. First, Professor Esben Rahbek Gjerdrum Pedersen will introduce the concept of strategic planning and implementation and the relationship between a strategy and a business model. We will then continue by exploring how companies work with value propositions, customer interfaces, supply chains, and financial models in reality. Finally, we will look into sustainable communication and marketing and what role they play in transforming companies towards sustainability.
Different Types of Sustainable Business Models
In this module, we will investigate and discuss the business models of three companies, namely the sports brand PUMA, the water company Aarhus Vand, and the dairy company Thise. Representatives from each company will share with us their company strategies, ideas, struggles, and rewards from investing in sustainable business model innovation. Following each case video, we will discuss their approaches to sustainable business model innovation, drawing on the concepts and ideas introduced in earlier modules while also encouraging you to ask critical questions about the pros and cons of the chosen approaches.
Sustainable Business Models Ecosystems
In this last module, we will move the discussion of sustainable business model innovation from individual businesses to ecosystems. As seen in previous modules, some challenges that businesses face in their sustainability work are systemic and therefore also very hard for an individual company to solve. We see an urgent need for entire ecosystems to change to also allow individual companies to transform their business models.
In the last couple of decades, we have seen an increasing number of attempts at creating systemic change towards sustainability. Often, these attempts take the form of movements, guided by a form of a manifesto. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are one such example of a manifesto trying to facilitate system change. As we will see in this module, all of these movements for systemic change have collaboration or partnerships for sustainability at their heart. You will meet representatives from three movements, all aiming to create more sustainable alternative ecosystems. First, you will meet representatives from the B Corp Movement who will share with us how it approaches a sustainable business model and system innovation. Second, you will meet Claus Meyer, who is one of the founders of the New Nordic Cuisine (NNC). The NNC continues to have a great impact on the Nordic food culture, arguably also beyond the Nordic countries, towards more local and sustainable value chains and healthy diets. Third, we will also discuss the all-important role of sustainable investment in transforming our societies towards sustainability. Finally, we will have a critical discussion with Professor Esben Rahbek Gjerdrum Pedersen on the challenges and opportunities companies face when investing in sustainable business model innovation, both at a company and system level. In creating this course, we have had the honor of meeting incredible people working hard to transform how we do business. We have learned so much on this journey, and we hope you have, too—not least in this last module, where we take a closer look at much-needed systemic change.
Course assessment
In this final assignment, you must take the skills you have learned to use in a case study and business model analysis of a company of your choice. This may be a brand, a manufacturer, a service provider, or another organisation that you find relevant and interesting to investigate.
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