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Teaching
Our educational initiatives use the radically different context of subsistence to challenge conventional thinking and emphasize sustainable business practices. Our curricular strategy at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels is to introduce students to the topics of subsistence and sustainability early in the program and provide a capstone experience later in the program. Some teaching initiatives are listed below.
- Sustainable Product and Market Development for Subsistence Marketplaces
- A yearlong integrative learning experience for business, engineering, industrial design, and other students
- Innovative international immersion trip
- Offered since Fall 2006
- Business 101 Module
- Organized around subsistence and sustainability for first semester undergraduates
- Piloted in Fall 2007
- Currently being scaled to all incoming undergraduate students in business
- Sustainable Marketing/Business Enterprises
- Piloted in Spring 2008
- Currently offered to 1st year MBAs
- Undergraduate course piloted in 2010
- Online course offered to undergraduates since 2011
- Global Business Horizons
- Piloted in 2011-12
- Currently offered to 2nd year Executive MBAs
- Sustainability Certificate
- Modules and workshops for students and managers
- Development of Instructional Cases on Subsistence and Sustainability
- Dissemination of teaching materials and resources to a wider audience of businesses, social entrepreneurs, and educators
- In progress through website, articles, and presentation
