Sustainable Business Models - SUSTBUS
Welcome to Sustainable Business Models – an open access, online teaching program developed jointly by CBS, ESADE and NHH, and co-funded by Erasmus+. Explore the six modules with 32 videos on how to design and implement sustainable business models.
- Module 1: The problem of sustainability
- Module 2: Business models for sustainability
- Module 3: Circular and collaborative business models
- Module 4: Social innovation
- Module 5: Strategizing and organizing for sustainability
- Module 6: Business in a sustainable future
Module 1: The problem of sustainability
The purpose of this module is to familiarize you with the nature and characteristics of the sustainability problem and what it means for companies and other organizations.
Module 1 · Video 1 - What Is the Problem?
Module 1 · Video 2 - The Footprint of Companies and Other Organizations
Module 1 · Video 3 - Towards Environmental Sustainability
Module 1 · Video 4 - Towards Social Sustainability
Module 1 · Video 5 - Towards Financial Sustainability
Module 1 · Video 6 - The Need for Sustainable Business Models
Module 2: Business Models for Sustainability
The purpose of this module is to illuminate the relationship between business models and sustainability. This implies shedding light on how business models can be designed both to reduce negative externalities and to increase positive externalities.
Module 2 · Video 1 - What is a business model?
Module 2 · Video 2 - Business Models and Externalities
Module 2 · Video 3 - Business Models for Sustainability
Module 2 · Video 4 - Responsibility and Opportunity
Module 2 · Video 5 - Case: The Plastic Bank
Module 3: Circular and Collaborative Business Models
The purpose of this module is to explore circular and collaborative business models, and how they differ from traditional, linear business models. We introduce the concept of the circular economy and circular business models, as well as the role of the access economy and collaborative business models in a circular future.
Module 3 · Video 1 - The Circular Economy
Module 3 · Video 2 - Circular Business Models
Module 3 · Video 3 - The Access Economy
Module 3 · Video 4 - The Collaborative Economy
Module 3 · Video 5 - The Case of Interface
Module 4: Social innovation
The purpose of this module is to show how sustainability can be integrated into business models from a social innovation point of view. To do so, we will present two concrete cases: The Behavioral Insights Team and Bla Bla Car and will analyze them through the lens of social innovation.
Module 4 · Video 1 - Social Innovation
Module 4 · Video 2 - Introduction to the section
Module 4 · Video 3 - The Behavioral Insights Team
Module 4 · Video 4 - Bla Bla Car
Module 5: Strategizing and Organizing for Sustainability
The objective of this module is to present key theoretical concepts in the field of organizing and strategizing for sustainability. The module provides a framework to understand and discuss challenges and opportunities to strategizing and organizing for sustainability. It links theoretical concepts to practice, and the ways in which they can be used in practice.
Module 5 · Video 1 - Organizing and Strategizing for Sustainability
Module 5 · Video 2 - The Value Proposition
Module 5 · Video 3 - The Customer Interface
Module 5 · Video 4 - The Supply Chain
Module 5 · Video 5 - The Financial System
Module 6: Business in a sustainable future
The purpose of this module is to shed light on what business might look like in a sustainable future. It thus builds on the preceding five modules in order to illuminate the kinds of business model innovation that can promote truly sustainable business.
Module 6 · Video 1 - Innovating for Sustainability
Module 6 · Video 2 - A Restart for Sustainable Business Model Innovation
Module 6 · Video 3 - The Business Model Restarter
Module 6 · Video 4 - Orkla and The Future of Consumer Goods
Module 6 · Video 5 - A Sustainable Future