COURSE NUMBER: MBA292T.11
This course is cross-listed with the EWMBA 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, 9:00AM—5:00PM
Please note the unorthodox
nature of this course, which meets all day on two Sundays (9/22 & 10/6). To
earn a passing grade, you must attend BOTH class sessions in their entirety.
PREREQUISITE(S): MBA203
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.