PRME AND OUR CURRICULUM (i) Featured Courses: BSAD 101: Introduction to Business This is a required course offered every Fall for all first-year business students. In introductory classes on the purpose of business, students read the Davos Manifesto 2020 along with the Business Roundtable’s Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation. Students were also taught about planetary boundaries and introduced to Kate Raworth’s “doughnut model” of an ecologically and socially sustainable economy. The point here was to remind students of the social impact of businesses and how businesses exist to serve society and all of its stakeholders, and that they must operate within limits. These ideas were reinforced as the course progressed, in particular in introductory classes on corporate social responsibility and how ethical principles need to inform decision making. Finally, students also were introduced to the 17 SDGs and how business goals can be aligned toward certain global goals, and how this creates opportunities for business solutions to help create a more sustainable and just world. This framed students’ introduction to business as a force for good. Assigned weekly posts on the class discussion forum often referred back to these themes (for example, an open discussion about which SDGs could be advanced by specific business initiatives).
Source: https://doughnuteconomics.org/about-doughnut-economics
Principle 2: Values
Principle 3 : Method
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