Master's Sustainability Consultancy

BA560-MM1
Closed
UBC Sauder School of Business
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
David Hardisty
Assistant Professor
2
Timeline
  • February 25, 2019
    Experience start
  • April 4, 2019
    Experience end
Experience
1 projects wanted
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
British Columbia, Canada
Any company type
Any industries
Categories
Communications Market research Operations Project management Humanities
Skills
analytic thinking research skills strategy analysis
Learner goals and capabilities

A team of Master's level student-consultants will work with your organization to audit existing sustainability performance and propose a new sustainability initiative or improve a current initiative.

Learners
Any level
50 learners
Project
5 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Teams of 5
Expected outcomes and deliverables

Example projects include, but are not limited to:

  • Improving stakeholder and community relations.
  • Designing, implementing or improving sustainability management systems.
  • Improving the environmental and/ or social performance of products, services or processes.
Project timeline
  • February 25, 2019
    Experience start
  • April 4, 2019
    Experience end
Project Examples

Beginning at the end of February, a team of five student consultants will spend 25 hours per team auditing your sustainability practices. To propose a new sustainability initiative, they will consider risks, survey at least one stakeholder group, identify relevant examples to guide implementation, and provide a framework for measuring results.

Based on the information that you provide, your goals, and the audit results, student-consultants will propose a new sustainability initiative that can help your organization respond to growing environmental and social pressures and evolving market demands.

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

Provide a dedicated contact who is available to answer periodic emails or phone calls over the duration of the project to address students' questions.

Be available for a quick phone call with the instructor to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course.