MBA 5440 Ecological Business Models
Examines the relationship between humans and the environment and explores global economic and business models that support sustainability. We reflect on the role worldviews, the economic system, and market failures play in creating societal problems. Students learn and apply various principles and tools for change including: environmental economics for valuing externalities, ecological economics for creating a modern worldview that recognizes finite resources, economic instruments such as cap and trade, and an array of eco-commerce models being used by business to operate more sustainably and contribute to solving some of the world�s most challenging issues.