This course will introduce students to the concepts of sustainability in a managerial context. prereq: 3401 and LSBE candidate or approved non-LSBE Organizational Management Minor or instructor consent; no grad credit

Microeconomic analysis of natural resource and energy markets. Role of these resources in production processes and waste generation, use and pricing of nonrenewable and renewable resources over time, resource availability, sustainable development, and ecological economics. prereq: 1023, preferred but not required: 3023; credit will not be granted if already received for ECON 4721

Microeconomic analysis of environmental quality as an economic good. Pollution control, benefit-cost analysis, valuation methodologies and their application to air and water quality, hazardous waste management, preservation, and global pollutants. prereq: 1023, preferred but not required: 3023; credit will not be granted if already received for ECON 4777

Key drivers of supply chain performance will be explored in this course along with how these drivers may be used to improve performance on a practical level during supply chain design, planning, and operations. Students will gain a solid understanding of the analytical tools necessary to solve supply chain problems. pre-req: MGTS 3301 or IE 3115, or IE 5315 or EE 3151 or MATH 5810 or STAT 4531 or STAT 5531, or instructor consent; no grad credit

This course introduces students to the field of social entrepreneurship, the practice of identifying, designing, starting and growing successful mission-driven for profit and nonprofit ventures. These include non-profit enterprises designed to respond to a special social, need, as well as more traditional ventures working to incorporate socially-responsible practices into their business models. The course provides an overview of the processes, challenges, and demands associated with creating ventures that seek to integrate financial and social/environmental benchmarks of success. This course is designed to appeal to those who want to learn more about enterprise in business and social contexts. prereq: LSBE candidate or college consent, no grad credit

This course provides an overview of the role of green marketing and sustainability in marketing strategy. The course adopts the triple bottom line perspective to case sustainability as the simultaneous pursuit of financial, social/relational, and environmental performance. It provides an assessment of current efforts to pursue sustainability with a primary focus on the interaction of the marketing organization with the environment. The course focuses on examining specific marketing tactics employed by firms seeking to maximize triple bottom line performance, and subsequently address consumption processes in the household, industrial, services, and transportation sectors of the economy. prereq: 3701

Marketing for a Better World explores how marketers can contribute to a healthy, sustainable, equitable, and ethical society. Using the framework of the Unit Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals, this class explores how marketers need to be aware of the impact of their actions and teaches how to embed such issues into marketing decision that create societal change. As citizens, consumers, and businesses move toward practices and behaviors that drive sustainable and societal impact, this class will teach students how to use marketing tools to design and create social campaigns to better the world. pre-req: MKTG 3701; no grad credit