Sustainable Business Model

Name: Sustainable Business Model
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SMEs and Startups

Created byNatt Pimpa

Last updated 1/2025

English

What you'll learn

Understand how to create sustainable business model
Understand and apply the concept of sustainable business from the United Nations Global Compacr
Identify key environmental and social aspects as strategies for sustainable business
Design sustainable business strategies

Course content

4 sections • 13 lectures • 1h 30m total length

Introduction0:59
This course aims to help you to understand how to integrate the concept of 'sustainability' to business practices. Sustainable Business indeed is about how businesses organizations thrive and grow while simultaneously promoting longevity in resources, living in good life, solving some of the world’s biggest challenges—and how you, as a business leader, can make a difference and profit. This clip gives you a clear overview of the course.
Why Sustainability in Business?18:42
A sustainable business model is one that generates value for everyone involved without being a drain on the resources that help create it. This lesson will help you to understand the components and roles of sustainabulity.
Sustainable Business 101
Sustainable Business 101
Sustainable Business Concept

What is the United Nation Global Compact?7:52
In this session, you will learn about responsibilities of the UN Global Compact (UNGC) regarding sustainable business. Please follow the 4 concepts presented by the UNGC to the business community.
Human Rights and Sustainable Business7:31
In this topic, you will learn that all business enterprises are expected to respect human rights., In other words, they should avoid infringing on the human rights of others, and should address adverse human rights impacts with which they are involved.
Environment and Sustainable Business4:20
In this topic, you will learn key environmental issues related to business operations. More and more, the pursuit of actions to reduce environmental impact and benefit society will be necessary for businesses to survive, let alone thrive. Consumers are demanding that the companies they patronize do more to be good corporate citizens. They’re speaking with their voices and their wallets, and they’re not inclined to take “no” for an answer.
Labour and Anti-Corruption for Sustainable Business9:35
New and tougher anti-corruption regulations continue to emerge worldwide. All companies need robust anti-corruption measures and practices to protect their reputations and the interests of their stakeholders. In this clip, you will learn how sustainable business engage in anti-corruption and promotion for labour issues.
UNGC and Sustainable Business (1)
UNGC and Sustainable Business (2)

Diversity and Inclusion for Business10:06
Diversity and inclusion (D&I) is more than policies, programs, or headcounts. Equitable employers outpace their competitors by respecting the unique needs, perspectives and potential of all their team members. As a result, diverse and inclusive workplaces earn deeper trust and more commitment from their employees. This lesson will help you to identify the importance of D&I in all organisations.
Triple Bottom Line0:53
The concept of the triple bottom line (TBL) was introduced by John Elkington. This concepts is adopted when the business aims to transform the current financial accounting-focused business system to take on a more comprehensive approach in measuring impact and success.
ESG and Sustainable Startups6:17
The discussion around what most now call “ESG” (environmental, social, and governance) has become far more common than what we expected. We will learn this concept in this lecture.
Business Model from the Sustainability Perspective9:23
What is not the element of the triple bottom line?
Which aspect is hardly seen as a potential aspect of 'Diversity'?

Case Study 1: The Big Issue3:38
The Big Issue is a street newspaper founded by John Bird and Gordon Roddick in September 1991 and published in four continents. Let's examine how this company designed its own business model.
Case Study 2: Circular Economy Model10:48
A case study of a startup that transforms waste to value.
Summary0:53
In this course, we will discuss challenges for IB with by co-ordinator.
BCG model

Requirements

There is no prerequisute for this course.

Description

This course aims to provide you with skills and knowledge on the design of business that focuses on being sustainable. , Rather than taking from the earth, a sustainable business “borrows” resources with the intent to replenish them. The concept of responsible consumption and production is one of the key aspects for this course. The students will examine keypoints from the UN and other international agencies working towards the acheivement of sustainable development via business and economic mechanisms.

A sustainable strategy, by way of business model, is one that understands the flow of ‘in’ and ‘out’ – not just cash flow, but again, the resources both tangible and intangible that are required to create the product or service. We will take you through the way in which business model can be designed to support labour, human rights, environment, and anti-corruptions.

As it is known that the most effective sustainability strategies start with an organization’s purpose, you will learn to answer these important questions before you design your sustainable business model:

Why does the organization exist?
What problem is it solving?
How is it going to improve the world, environment and society?

From there, a strategy can emerge that engages the entire business ecosystem – internally, the supply chain, its communities and its industry. You will also learn from real-life stories and cases in the final section of this course.The cases we design for you to learn in this course comprise both local and global sustainable business cases.

Research indicates that consumer demand is, indeed, pushing businesses to alter their operations. In another Deloitte Insights survey, for instance, nearly two-thirds of companies said their customers have been demanding they switch to renewable sources of electricity. Nearly half said they’re working on doing just that. Hence, you will learn the importance of the ESG framework in this course.

Who this course is for:

Entry-level Entrepreneurs and Startup owners
Junior Business Managers
Entry-level Sustainability team members

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Course content

Introduction2 lectures • 20min

United Nations Global Compact and Sustainable Business4 lectures • 29min

Business Model and Sustainability Concept4 lectures • 27min

Case Study for the Design of Sustainable Business3 lectures • 15min

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