COURSE NUMBER: EWMBA292T.11
This course is cross-listed with the Full-Time MBA Program.
COURSE TITLE: Intrapreneurship for Sustainability: Driving Change from Within Corporations
UNITS OF CREDIT: 1.0
INSTRUCTORS: Emma Stewart
E-MAIL ADDRESSES: stewart@haas.berkeley.edu
CLASS WEB PAGE LOCATION: http://bspace.berkeley.edu
MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: Sunday, Sept 22 & Oct 6, 9:00AM—5:00PM
PREREQUISITE(S): EWMBA203
CLASS FORMAT: The class will involve a mixture of lectures, cases, guest speakers, and one team-based competition.
REQUIRED READINGS: Readings and lecture notes will be posted on bSpace
BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE: Participants will be evaluated on a combination of class participation, case briefs, and performance in the competition.
ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:
An organizational change approach to the development and introduction of new corporate strategies and product lines that have a sustainability benefit. Based upon first-hand experience both within – and consulting for – multi-national corporations, the instructor will offer insight into how students can act as effective ‘intrapreneurs’ to:
Students will be given the opportunity to work on real-world cases to help them effectively incorporate sustainability strategy into their chosen career path. The course will be of particular benefit to those seeking positions within large enterprises or in business consulting.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:
Emma Stewart, Ph.D., is Head of Sustainability Solutions at Autodesk, where she leads the design software company’s efforts to make sustainable design easy, insightful, and cost-effective for its millions of engineering and design customers. In 2009, Emma founded Autodesk’s Sustainable Design Living Lab program, which uses Autodesk facilities as a testing ground for new software to rapidly green existing buildings. In 2008, she founded its Sustainable Operations program, which was named best-in-class by the Carbon Disclosure Project. She co-developed Autodesk’s C-FACT methodology (a Corporate Finance Approach to Climate-stabilizing Targets), an open-source, science-driven, business-friendly approach to greenhouse gas target-setting.
Prior to Autodesk, she founded and directed the Environmental R&D Division at Business for Social Responsibility, where her team designed corporate initiatives to analyze and adapt to horizon issues such as payments for ecosystem services, water footprinting, carbon offsets and trading, voluntary supply chain standards, and sustainable product design. Emma has been a regularly featured columnist for Harvard Business Online, Environmental Leader, and GreenBiz and her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times, Forbes, Chicago Tribune, The International Herald Tribune, The Huffington Post, Inside Washington, Environmental Finance, Environmental Law Journal, and Sustainable Industries, among others. She is a contributing author to a number of recent books: Corporate Responses to Climate Change, The Encyclopedia of Sustainable Business, and Carbon Trading.
Emma has been named a Next Generation Fellow by Columbia University (2007), a Cabinet Member of the World Economic Forum’s Low Carbon Taskforce (2008), a Judge for the Clean Tech Open (2009), and a First Mover Fellow by The Aspen Institute (2010). She has lectured at dozens of universities and Fortune1000 companies, and has been an invited speaker at the National Press Club in DC, the UN Conference of the Parties, the World Conservation Congress, Greenbuild, and Ecobuild. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Management from Stanford University and a B.A. Honours degree in Human Sciences from Oxford University.