GRA 8262 Sustainable Value Creation in Global Organisations (2020/2021)

GRA 8262 Sustainable Value Creation in Global Organisations (2020/2021)

Course code: 
GRA 8262
Department: 
Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Credits: 
5
Course coordinator: 
Birgitte Grøgaard
Per Espen Stoknes
Course name in Norwegian: 
Sustainable Value Creation in Global Organisations (2020/2021)
Product category: 
Executive
Portfolio: 
EMBA Global - Programme Courses
Semester: 
2021 Spring
Active status: 
Active
Level of study: 
Master
Teaching language: 
English
Course type: 
One semester
Introduction

This course focuses on how firms develop sustainable value creation in global organizations. We address how global organizations develop a flexibility to address multiple and shifting external competitive pressures and sustainability challenges. Participants will explore topics such as how to develop long-term, strategic scenarios, tapping into internal and external knowledge, the influence of people and culture in global organizations, as well as new and expanded types of accounting.

The sessions in this global specialization course are taught by faculty members at BI Norwegian Business School with extensive global experience and top tier research publications within the field. The course will also include guest lectures.

 

Learning outcomes - Knowledge
  • Participants can use scenario and foresight tools and processes
  • Participants can identify and analyze external and internal pressures for change
  • Participants can critically assess how to tap into external and internal knowledge
  • Participants can identify challenges and approaches to enable knowledge transfer across borders
  • Participants understand tools for measuring, assessing, and reporting sustainability related initiatives and impacts
  • Participants understand of key theories and frameworks within international HRM and complexities of intercultural management
  • Participants understand the legal requirements for green reporting, climate risk and future trends
Learning outcomes - Skills

The classroom sessions will be interactive and focused on leveraging experiences and available data, cases and examples to develop skills. After finishing the specialization, participants will:

  • be able to develop strategic scenarios for a company’s future sustainable value creation
  • have the ability to identify and analyze relevant information to make better decisions, developed through in-class exercises
  • be able to calculate science-based sustainability targets, projects and profitability
  • have developed an understanding of how to lead cross-cultural global teams
  • be able to develop guidance for tailored green, integrated accounting and reporting for own company / industry
General Competence
  • Participants can critically evaluate the applicability of established theories to improve their decision-making in diverse global contexts
  • Participants will have reflected on the concept of "value creation" and the challenges to measure it.
  • Participants will have reflected on what long term sustainability implies, and whether it is feasible or not.
  • Participants understand the complexities and challenges of managing diverse global organizations
Course content

This course focuses on how firms can create sustainable value through their geographically dispersed organizations. The sessions are interactive, blending cutting-edge research with practical examples. We challenge the boundary conditions of extant knowledge, bring in future trends, and compare and contrast traditional firms with new actors in the dynamic competitive landscape with changing requirements and expectations for sustainable solutions.

Key topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Long-term strategic scenarios
  • Developing flexibility in global organizations
  • Global resource orchestration to support sustainable value creation
  • Human creativity and innovation to support a sustainable transformation
  • Tapping into internal and external knowledge
  • Tools for assessing social and environmental impacts
  • New approaches to accounting
  • The influence of culture and people
  • The three capitals approach

 

Teaching and learning activities

5 ECTS credits corresponds to a workload between 130 and 150 hours.  The course is conducted through a total of 50 hours of lectures and other classroom activities. We expect active class participation and supportive behavior for fellow students. Each participant is held co-responsible for a learning environment that is open, challenging and respectful.

Attendance to all sessions in the course is compulsory. If you have to miss part(s) of the course you must ask in advance for leave of absence. More than 25% absence in a course will require retaking the entire course. It's the student's own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class that is not included on the course homepage/ It's learning or other course materials.

This is a course with continuous assessment (several exam components) and one final exam code. Each exam component will be graded using points on a scale 0 -100. The components will be weighted together according to the information in the course description in order to calculate the final letter grade for the course. Students who fail to participate in one/some/all exam components will get a lower grade or may fail the course. Candidates may be called in for an oral hearing as a verification/control of written assignments.

Specific information regarding the points system and the mapping scale beyond the information given in the course description will be provided in class. This information may be relevant for requirements for term papers or other hand-ins, and/or where class participation can be one of several elements of the overall evaluation.

The course is a part of a full Executive MBA program and examination in all courses must be passed in order to obtain a certificate.

Software tools
No specified computer-based tools are required.
Qualifications

Granted admission to the EMBA programme. Please consult our student regulations.

Covid-19

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there may be deviations in teaching and learning activities as well as exams, compared with what is described in this course description.

Exam categoryWeightInvigilationDurationGroupingComment exam
Exam category:
Activity
Form of assessment:
Class participation
Exam code:
GRA 82621
Grading scale:
Point scale
Grading rules:
Internal examiner with external supervisor
Resit:
All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course
30No -Individual Class participation, counts 30% of the total grade
Exam category:
Submission
Form of assessment:
Written submission
Exam code:
GRA 82621
Grading scale:
Point scale
Grading rules:
Internal examiner with external supervisor
Resit:
All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course
40No3 Week(s)Individual Individual written assignment , counts 40% of the total grade
Exam category:
Activity
Form of assessment:
Presentation
Exam code:
GRA 82621
Grading scale:
Point scale
Grading rules:
Internal examiner with external supervisor
Resit:
All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course
30No -Group Group in-class oral deliverable, counts 30% of the final grade
Exams:
Exam category:Activity
Form of assessment:Class participation
Weight:30
Invigilation:No
Grouping (size):Individual
Duration: -
Comment:Class participation, counts 30% of the total grade
Exam code:GRA 82621
Grading scale:Point scale
Resit:All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course
Exam category:Submission
Form of assessment:Written submission
Weight:40
Invigilation:No
Grouping (size):Individual
Duration:3 Week(s)
Comment:Individual written assignment , counts 40% of the total grade
Exam code:GRA 82621
Grading scale:Point scale
Resit:All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course
Exam category:Activity
Form of assessment:Presentation
Weight:30
Invigilation:No
Grouping (size):Group
Duration: -
Comment:Group in-class oral deliverable, counts 30% of the final grade
Exam code:GRA 82621
Grading scale:Point scale
Resit:All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course
Type of Assessment: 
Continuous assessment
Grading scale: 
ECTS
Total weight: 
100
Student workload
ActivityDurationComment
Teaching
50 Hour(s)
6 days in-class module
Student's own work with learning resources
100 Hour(s)
Includes (but is not limited to):
Preparing reading material
Preparing group oral presentation
Individual written assignment
Sum workload: 
150

A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 5 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 135 hours.