STRATEGIC PLANNING AND SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT - 1

The course contributes to the educational objectives of the Master’s Degree Programme, which aims at providing students with economic and managerial knowledge with a specific focus on sustainability and long term value creation.
The course studies strategic planning from a sustainability perspective. In particular, it focuses on how corporate strategy can embed the sustainability perspective in order to generate value shared with all the stakeholders involved.

1 KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- know the main pillars of sustainability;
- know the evolution of the concept of sustainability across time and space;
- know the main principles of strategic planning.
2 APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- identify the main strategic priorities of companies;
- know how to formulate strategies leading to the creation of shred value;
- know how to identify the main stakeholders of a company.
3 MAKING JUDGEMENTS
- know how to frame hypotheses concerning the consistency of corporate strategy with the sustainability principles.

Students are required to have a basic knowledge of accounting

- Sustainability: trend and scenario. Sustainable development and firms
- Charity, CSR and long term value creation
- Sustainable strategy and stakeholder engagement
- Internal control system and sustainability
- Environmental and social costs: taxonomy
- Environmental costs, social costs and externalities
- Sustainable performance measures
- KPIs to measure sustainability
- Measuring sustainability across different corporate functions
- Planning and controlling for sustainability: the sales division perspective
- How to foster sustainability for the sales division
- Cases
- Communicating sustainability: where and when
- Sustainability and integrated reporting
- Budgeting for sustainability

Chiara Mio, L'azienda sostenibile, Laterza 2021
Chiara Mio, Programmazione e controllo delle vendite. Una prospettiva di sostenibilità, Egea 2013

The exam will be written, with open ended and multiple choices questions. Limited to attending students, project works are proposed
As regards the gradation of the grade (how the grades will be assigned), regardless of the attending or non-attending mode:
A. scores in the 18-22 range will be awarded in the presence of:
- sufficient knowledge and ability to understand applied in relation to the programme;
- sufficient ability to apply knowledge and understanding and judgment;
- sufficient communication skills, especially in relation to the use of specific language relating to the subject;
B. scores in the 23-26 range will be awarded in the presence of:
- good knowledge and ability to understand applied in relation to the programme;
- good ability to apply knowledge and understanding and judgement;
- good communication skills, especially in relation to the use of specific language relating to the subject;
C. scores in the 27-30 range will be awarded in the presence of:
- excellent knowledge and ability to understand applied in relation to the programme;
- excellent ability to apply knowledge and understanding and judgment;
- excellent communication skills, especially in relation to the use of specific language relating to the subject.

Several methodologies will be used, such as lectures, real case studies and guest speakers.

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Accessibility, Disability and Inclusion
Accommodation and support services for students with disabilities and students with specific learning impairments

Ca’ Foscari abides by Italian Law (Law 17/1999; Law 170/2010) regarding support
services and accommodation available to students with disabilities. This includes students with
mobility, visual, hearing and other disabilities (Law 17/1999), and specific learning impairments (Law 170/2010). If you have a disability or impairment that requires accommodations (i.e., alternate testing, readers, note takers or interpreters) please contact the Disability and Accessibility Offices in Student Services: disabilita@unive.it.

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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Climate change and energy" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development