Programme Overview
Businesses across the globe are realizing the importance of integrating sustainability into business practices. Much of the pressure is coming in through various stakeholders, such as the customers, shareholders, and the government. This has created a need for managers in different sectors- public, private and not for profit, to maintain a balance between three pillars of sustainability i.e. people, planet and profit. The M.B.A. (Sustainability Management) at the TERI SAS equips students with acumen to lead in a resource-sensitive world amid increasing competition and concern for sustainable development. Different courses such as Principles and Concepts of Sustainability, Climate Change and Development, Sustainability Reporting, Corporate Social Responsibility, Strategies for sustainable business, Business, Natural Ecosystems and Community, Accounting and Finance for Sustainability taught in the programme help the students recognize the need, challenges and ways to approach long-term viability of businesses through management and optimization of resources without compromising on profitability and competitiveness.
Program Specific Outcome
At the end of pursuing the MBA (Sustainability Management) program the students are expected achieve the following -
• Ability to formulate, evaluate and implement crucial business strategies with core facets of Finance, Marketing and Sustainability;
• Competence to make ethical business decisions with social and environmental consciousness;
• Leadership and teamwork mastery of problem solving in a resource-sensitive world amid increasing competition;
• Training in tools, techniques, and frameworks for developing critical thinking & communication skills;
• Develop expertise to recognize the need, challenges and ways to approach for sustainable businesses through resource optimization without compromising on profitability and competitiveness;
• Gain hands-on experience in applying business, economic, management, legal and sustainability concepts & practice along training in quantitative and qualitative methods of research.