THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Business
Sustainabilty
Management
Online short course prospectus
Why study
sustainability?
In a recent Annual Business Summit survey, 48 per cent of respondents stated that sustainability is either fully
embedded, or permeates most departments within their organisation, while 25 per cent said that sustainability
drives their organisation.1
The value of certified expertise in sustainable business practices is rising every day, which is why the University
of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership is collaborating with online education company, GetSmarter,
to make this prestigious programme accessible to professionals around the world, entirely online.
1
Source
8 weeks online Course starts: 31 July 2017
(+1.5 weeks orientation) Registrations close: 25 July 2017
£1,800 8–12 hours required per week, self-
£ Two-part payment plan option:* paced
First installment: £1,169
Second installment: £780
*Admin fee applies
Earn a certificate from the Enjoy a personalised, Gain verifiable and
University of Cambridge people-mediated online relevant competencies
Institute for Sustainability learning experience through a career-focused
Leadership as powerful proof that consistently curriculum that achieves
of your new competencies achieves a 90%+ specific learning outcomes
and expertise course completion rate and skill gains
Gain access to the University
of Cambridge Institute for
Sustainability Leadership (CISL)
International
Alumni Network
The CISL Network is made up of nearly 8,000 senior leaders
and leading practitioners who represent business, the public
sector and civil society in every industry, on every continent.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will become
an entry-level member of this prestigious global community.
This forum includes participants from all of CISL’s executive
education programmes spanning the past 25 years, alumni of
our graduate programmes, members of our business platforms
and expert faculty and contributors to our work. Through it,
we aim to provide opportunities for members of our Network
to keep up to date with the latest thinking and action, the
space to debate ideas and share experience, and the chance
to collaborate and influence change.
Course outline
MODULE 3: MODULE 6:
0 ORIENTATION
MODULE 3 Regulatory environment 6 Communication
and international policy and marketing
MODULE 1: MODULE 4: MODULE 7:
1 Sustainability challenges 4 Production 7 Collaboration
and opportunities and consumption and partnerships
MODULE 2: MODULE 5: MODULE 8:
2 The business case and 5 Design, technology, and 8 Rewiring your
leadership for action planning for sustainability business approach
In just eight weeks, you’ll walk away
confident in your ability to:
• Investigate the impact of current global economic, • Evaluate the role of marketing and communication
social, and environmental pressures on business in successfully implementing sustainability as part
in a local and global context of overall business strategy
• Argue the business case for sustainability and • Assess the opportunities from collaborating with
the value of strong leadership to drive sustainable key stakeholders and entering into partnerships
business to create new value
• Investigate the interaction between business and • Formulate a practical action plan for overcoming
the international regulatory environment relating the barriers and seizing the opportunities
to sustainability associated with creating a sustainable business
• Justify the importance of integrating sustainability • Reflect on your personal strategies for influencing
across an organisation’s value chain to ensure positive sustainability-oriented change within
long-term value creation your organisation
• Assess the potential of innovative design and
technology to enable sustainable business
VIDEO
The GetSmarter experience.
What it’s like to learn online.
TAKE A TOUR OF THE
ONLINE CAMPUS
Meet the course instructors
Over the eight weeks of this course, you’ll receive guidance and feedback from your Head Tutor. All Business
Sustainability Management Tutors are sustainability professionals with years of practical experience and intimate
knowledge of real-world sustainability issues, practices and opportunities.
MARTIN ROBERTS ELSPETH DONOVAN
COURSE CONVENOR TUTOR
AND HEAD TUTOR
Martin is a Programme Director at the University Elspeth is the Deputy Director of the Southern African
of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, Office of the University of Cambridge Institute for
where he helps companies with a global reach to Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and a Tutor on CISL’s
derive value from embedding innovative approaches to Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business. She
sustainability across their organisation and supply chain. directs the CISL SA biannual Sustainability Practitioner
Martin has extensive experience working with companies seminar. Elspeth spent nine years at the Graduate School
and NGOs on sustainability challenges, with particular of Business, University of Cape Town as a director of
expertise in the food, agricultural, utility, tourism and various programmes, responsible for curriculum design and
extractive sectors. He has lived in several African countries student support. Elspeth’s passion is to help ensure future
working with governments and the private sector to tackle generations can flourish and she draws on the natural
the resource challenges of today and the future. system for inspiration. She has a BSc and an MBA.
DR NICKY DEE BRUCE HAASE
TUTOR TUTOR
Nicky has a PhD in Environmental Technology With more than 20 years of business experience on four
Management from the University of Cambridge continents, Bruce brings both a deep understanding of
and teaches on this and related topics. Her recent business sustainability issues and hands-on experience
research has examined sustainability from an in implementing sustainability and innovation strategies
industrial emergence perspective, with an emphasis within international commercial organisations. His business
on the role of finance. Nicky has focused on the experience included 10 years at Canon Europe, where
support of new ventures in developed and lesser he served as CSR Director for EMEA. Bruce’s business
developed countries and has worked with Climate experience is complemented by work with NGOs,
KIC, governmental departments, Carbon Trust, public-private partnerships, and commodity supply
Enecsys, European Commission, the University chains. As head of the Climate Business Engagement
of Cambridge and Colleges, and NESTA to this end. Unit within WWF, Bruce was responsible for the
She is currently involved with a pioneering business prestigious Climate Savers Program.
plan competition in Nigeria that attracted 65,000
entries this year.
THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Business
Sustainabilty
Management
Online short course prospectus
Are you interested in taking this
course, entirely online and part time?
If you want to become a leader in a field that will soon be ubiquitous to businesses across all
industries, anywhere in the world, secure your spot on the next presentation of this course by
clicking through to the registration page below.
REGISTER NOW
CONTACT US
admissions@[Link]
UK: +44 (0)20 3457 5774 | US: +1 224 249 3522 | Global: +27 21 447 7565
[Link]
