Courses Cases Courses Sustainable Business Transformation CBS Executive MBA An executive program empowering senior leaders to integrate sustainability at the heart of business strategy and operations – building essential sustainability literacy, accelerating transformation, and strengthening the ability to manage emerging ri... Read more Managing Sustainable Corporations CBS FT MBA This course is taught within the FT MBA program at CBS. It aims at combining theoretical debates around key concepts like CSR, sustainability, and accountability with practical reflections on social and environmental issues. Part I: Fundamental App... Read more Corporate Sustainability CBS Executive MBA This course looks at how business practitioners can show leadership for corporate social responsibility (CSR). It thus has a very practical angle. While the course gives an introduction to CSR, it also reaches beyond some of the more traditional deba... Read more See all course details on CBS Download case Cases Divestment Dilemmas in Russia: Business Teaching Case After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, some companies swiftly curtailed operations in Moscow. Big groups including Siemens, McDonald’s and Starbucks withdrew. A wave of corporate promises to divest from Russia followed. Not all companies have... Read more Business school teaching case study: is sustainability reporting valuable if it is not compulsory? The EU’s proposed relaxation of rules presents companies with a strategic question: welcome the respite, or continue as planned? Read more Trouble in the Congo - Glencore's Links to Artisanal Cobalt Mining The case discusses the operations of Glencore in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). At the heart of the case, is the allegation of Glencore’s complicity (ie indirect involvement) in illegal artisanal cobalt mining in the DRC. While the com... Read more Partnering for Change: Novo Nordisk's Partnership with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Danish Red Cross This case discusses an innovative partnership between Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk and the Red Cross Movement. The partnership aims at improving access to insulin in areas of humanitarian crisis (e.g. refugees). The case discusses the for... Read more The UN Global Compact: Advancing or Impeding Corporate Sustainability? The case discusses the birth and maturing of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). It can be used in classes where students discuss the UNGC. The case is centred around the problem of the high delisting rate that the UNGC faces. It asks students ... Read more Sustainability as Opportunity: Unilever's Sustainable Living Plan This case discusses Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan, and what the company has done to integrate sustainability principles into its business model and build on its core competencies, such as innovative product development and marketing expert... Read more
