BCom Undergraduate Core
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MGCR 460
Social Context of Business
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: Examination of how business interacts with the larger society. Exploration of the development of modern capitalist society, and the dilemmas that organizations face in acting in a socially responsible manner. Examination of these issues
with reference to sustainable development, business ethics, globalization and developing countries, and political activity.
Offered by: Management
- Restrictions: Open to U2 and U3 students. Not open to students who have taken MGCR 360.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Hervé Robert Horner, Gina G Page, Anicet A Fangwa Nantcho
- Hervé Robert Horner, Lindsay Holmgren, Simon Altmejd, Gina G Page
- an introduction to the philosophy of business and critical concepts of ethics, social responsibility, and sustainability
BCom Undergraduate MSUS Programs
BCom Managing for Sustainability (MSUS) Programs
- Guided by the International Society of Sustainability Professionals Survey & Report (2010), the MSUS programs were conceived to cover the key skills and competencies students should develop in order to be effective change agents. Students, educators, and practitioners from a variety of sectors were consulted to better understand current needs and future direction for sustainability in management education. Officially launched in fall 2014, the programs are the result of a cross-disciplinary partnership between the Desautels Faculty of Management, the Â鶹AV School of Environment (MSE), and Â鶹AV Department of Geography.
MSUS Major in Managing for Sustainability
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The Major in Managing for Sustainability (30 credits) focuses on combining management and business knowledge with a solid understanding of the interlinked economic, social and ecological challenges of achieving sustainability. It integrates management studies with fundamentals of environmental science and sustainability. The Major includes the integration of multiple management disciplines with sustainability; fundamental concepts of environmental science, social sciences and human impacts on natural systems; and an experiential learning component in the form of a consulting engagement, internship or research project offering "real world" experience.
MSUS Concentration
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The Managing for Sustainability Concentration (15 credits) focuses on conceptual and analytical skills needed to formulate and implement organizational policies that contribute to ecologically sustainable and socially responsible economic development. The main themes of courses in the Concentration include: organizational implications of the interlinked economic, social and ecological challenges of sustainability; the integration of sustainability into traditional business functions; and leadership, stakeholder management and managing change required to achieve sustainability.
Sample Undergraduate BCom sustainability-related courses
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ACCT 401
Sustainability & Environ Acct
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Accounting: Developing measures of corporate environmental performance, assessing their reliability and reporting to external stakeholders. Using sustainability metrics in strategic and operational business decisions. Implementing and utilizing
Environmental management systems and standards. Managing corporate environmental risks and accounting for environmental costs. Environmental auditing.
Offered by: Management
- Prerequisite: MGCR 211
- Open only to U2 and U3 students.
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INSY 455
Tech&Innov for Sustainability
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Information Systems: The role of information and other technologies in the size and nature of an organization’s environmental ‘footprint’. Achieving sustainability through strategic innovation, such as digitization, recycling, reuse of materials, sustainable design, LEED certifications, smart grids and energy metrics. Analyzing the environmental benefits and hidden costs of novel technologies.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Open only to U2 and U3 students.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Syed Muhammad Usman Tayyab
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MGPO 438
Social Entrepreneur&Innovation
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Policy: Explores key concepts associated with social entrepreneurship and social innovation – the application of principles of entrepreneurship and innovation to solve social problems through social ventures, enterprises and not-for-profit organizations. Focuses on the social economy, including how the market system can be leveraged to create social value.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction(s): Open to U2 and U3 students.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Paola Perez-Aleman, Rohini Jalan
- Niels Billou
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MGPO 440
Strategies for Sustainability
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Policy: This course explores the relationship between economic activity, management, and the natural environment. Using readings, discussions and cases, the course will explore the challenges that the goal of sustainable development poses for our existing notions of economic goals, production and consumption practices and the management of organizations.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
- Terms
- Instructors
- Donald Melville
- Jad Robitaille
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MRKT 351
Marketing & Society
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Marketing: The social issues and concerns affecting marketing management are examined and the two way relationship between marketing and social change is explored. Particular attention is paid to consumerism, government regulation in marketing, corporate social responsibility, social marketing and marketing role in a conserve society.
Offered by: Management
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MSUS 401
Sustainability Consulting
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Managing for Sustainability: Designed around a pro bono consulting engagement, provides real-world experience in applying management consulting theories and tools to plan and implement projects that move organizations towards sustainability. Topics include: consulting as an industry; different types of sustainability consulting; implementing change in organizations; and project management.
Offered by: Management
- Restrictions: Open to U2 and U3 students.
- Prerequisite: MGPO 440
MBA offerings
MBA Program
The MBA Program at Desautels allows students to select elective courses that are available in strategies for sustainability, non-profit consulting, and global leadership.
Executive MBA
Executive MBA Sustainability Module
Launched in 2014, the EMBA's Sustainability Module provides an innovative four-day module focusing on sustainability imperatives confronting contemporary organizations.Â
The module achieved BNQ Level 3 (2014) and Level 4 (2015) sustainability, an initiative that was supported through Â鶹AV Office of Sustainability's Sustainability Projects Fund.
International Masters for Health Leadership (IMHL)
The International Masters for Health Leadership (IMHL) began in 2006 as part of the quest to become a world leader in health care management and leadership education. Beyond the Masters of Management degree, this program is designed for experienced working professionals in all areas of healthcare and includes participants from over 11 countries each year.
The program is led by Prof. Henry Mintzberg which emphasizes social, ethical and environmental contexts for enabling health sector excellence.
Â鶹AV Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship
The Centre accompanies Â鶹AV startups throughout the entire entrepreneurship journey—from the initial ideation stage to validation, launch and acceleration, and to its initial public offering.
