Booster Program: Sustainable Transformation

As an increasing number of countries and regions are committed to fostering renewable energy, reducing carbon dioxide emissions and enhancing circular business strategies, corporations are struggling to cope with their sustainability targets, both in reporting standards and in implementation practices. Sustainable transformation becomes a key challenge for many organizations, as green accounting and reporting is required by various jurisdictions across the globe. However, sustainability can be seized as an opportunity to explore new business models rather than being perceived as a threat to existing operations, whilst companies can gain competitive advantage by becoming pioneers in the quest for sustainable business practices.

Our aim for the course is to cover major trends in this regard and equip participants with approaches for setting up sustainability strategies, providing practical use cases and best practices for decarbonization and circular business models, and provide fundamental theoretical frameworks for green and qualitative growth.

This program will be conducted together with ESMT EMBA students.

Key facts

Your profile

Executives who want to acquire new strategic skills and familiarize themselves with new business models to react to the changing emerging market conditions.
Although the course is about sustainability strategies, it does not require any expertise of the topic. If you are generally interested in the developments that will disrupt industry practices, you are most welcome to participate and share your own expertise in strategy, innovation, and business transformation with the group and enrich the discussions.

Benefits

Gaining an in-depth view into the changes that will shape your organization’s sustainability practices in the future
Developing enhanced skills with respect to identifying quick wins and offering new ideas to tackle the sustainability challenge in your organization
Understanding and being able to exploit the potential of technology for innovation and growth, including showing an understanding of the importance of technology in delivering a more sustainable future for business, implementing smart decarbonization, and being innovative in developing circular business solutions

Topics

Evaluating market developments: What are the drivers of the move towards sustainability? Which new markets develop?
Analyzing strategies and business models: Which competitive strategies are most likely to succeed in a rapidly changing regulatory context?
How do companies use digital tools to cope with these challenges? How can circular economy principles be reconciled with the paradigm of prosperity and growth?