Where Business and the Environment Intersect

As climate change and environmental degradation impact human lives and health, the private sector is increasingly focused on environmental issues.

Sustainable enterprises are for-profit and non-profit organizations meeting the needs of present and future generations with products, services and activities that protect and preserve environmental integrity while achieving financial performance. The Sustainable Enterprises Minor builds leadership in the ethical, economic, political, and environmental dimensions of sustainability.

Across a breadth of interdisciplinary courses, students will learn to understand and address the conflicting issues that often arise at the intersection of business and the environment.

Our students:

  • Create a collaborative community of learning around developing and managing sustainable and resilient enterprises.
  • Learn how to frame relevant questions, select and utilize appropriate, interdisciplinary modes of inquiry to identify the issues and interrelationships which comprise the ethical, economic and political well-being of sustainable enterprises in the context of destabilizing environmental systems and climate change.
  • Analyze, interpret, evaluate and synthesize information from multiple sources.
  • Acquire, integrate and apply conceptual and empirical knowledge of the complex and interconnected ethical, economic, political and environmental systems that impact sustainable enterprises.