Why choose this program?
Integrating sustainability into strategy, decision-making, and value chains.
This module is designed to provide you with in-depth, practice-oriented insight into sustainability within value chains. You will learn how organizations can translate sustainable choices into strategy, operations, and collaboration within the chain. You will work toward the following learning objectives:
Insight into sustainability and value chains: You will understand current developments in business ethics, ESG, CSR, the Sustainable Development Goals, Shared Value, and the Triple Bottom Line, and be able to explain what these mean for business operations and supply chain collaboration.
Translating sustainability into strategy and decision-making: You will become familiar with relevant frameworks, concepts, and tools that managers can use to integrate sustainability into strategic decisions, including CSRD and CSDDD.
Setting priorities using data and stakeholder input: You will learn to work with methods such as materiality analysis, stakeholder mapping, and KPI development to make sustainability issues concrete, measurable, and manageable.
Balancing financial, social, and environmental interests: You will practice weighing interests, risks, and impacts in realistic scenarios where sustainability, costs, continuity, and value creation intersect.
Circular and sustainable supply chain strategies: You will explore how organizations can develop circular strategies, engage in responsible procurement, ensure supply chain transparency, and collaborate with partners to increase their sustainable impact.
Applying what you’ve learned to your practice: You will apply these insights in a realistic simulation and through practical assignments, strengthening your ability to facilitate sustainable change within your organization or supply chain.
What will the program bring you?
Strategic insight into sustainability: from ESG and CSRD to concrete supply chain decisions in your organization.
Circular strategies in practice: from linear to circular thinking at the product, process, and system levels.
Experience with sustainability dilemmas: using The Triple Connection simulation, you balance People, Planet, and Prosperity in realistic scenarios.
Stronger as a change agent: tools for organizing sustainable transformation and engaging stakeholders.
What makes this master module unique?
What makes this master module unique?
- Impact in 6 weeks: the combination of an online kick-off, three on-campus days, targeted self-study, and working on your own case study provides insights you can immediately apply in your work environment.
- Academic & recognized: 4 ECTS as a microcredential with a digital badge; part of an accredited master’s program and stackable if you wish to continue your studies.
- Top faculty from academia and industry: TIAS professors and experienced experts from the field combine analytical depth with realistic cases, so that theory and practice reinforce each other.
- Simulation-driven learning: The game The Triple Connection makes sustainability tangible and forces you to make real choices regarding People, Planet, and Prosperity.
- Blended & small-scale: Intensive guidance and peer dialogue in a compact group; what you explore online, you bring to life on campus through cases and simulations.
Why choose TIAS School for Business & Society?
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Do you want to create more impact on your organization and on society?
- Tailor your training and learning path to your learning needs and organizational issues
- Learn a lot and quickly through frequent interaction
- Get in when you want and learn at your own pace, both online and on-site
- Get the most out of yourself and your available time through individual attention, personal contact and small group discussions.
We are a business school with an unparalleled level of personal contact, so that every participant benefits from individual attention. From one-on-one mentoring to small group discussions, we prioritize personalized interactions, fostering a unique and enriching learning experience tailored to each participant's needs and current organizational issues.