• Introduces students to a variety of analytical and practical perspectives on sustainability related leadership
• Demonstrate and offer tools on how organizations communicate and shape change relating to the sustainability transition.
• Learn about key technolocial developments driving the sustainability transition
• Collaborate and explore key trends and strategies with a number of the Scandinavian leaders supporting this transition.

Approaches to sustainability have focused on biophysical limits and the need to reduce environmental damage, often by means of strong restrictions on human activities. More recently, however, there has been growing interest in incentivizing activities that simultaneously improve both human and environmental wellbeing. This “regenerative” approach to sustainability is the operative model of sustainability at CBS. Two key attributes of regenerative sustainability are a search for net positive
outcomes and the requirement a simultaneous focus on human and environmental outcomes. While harm reduction and damage limitation activities will continue to be needed in many contexts, the emphasis in regenerative sustainability is on looking first for ways to contribute to environmental and well-being improvement. Such a net positive approach not only goes further than net zero approaches focused on reducing harm, but is much more engaging to most stakeholders, a critical factor
in building the social support needed to achieve a more sustainable world.

This five-day course explores the value-added of regenerative sustainability in a business and management context. It explores the individual, organizational and communicative aspects of sustainability and the role of the firm in transitions of socio-economic systems to sustainability. Our unit of analysis is the city, where firms increasingly partner with government, utility companies, and civil society to help build sustainable cities.

While the course emphasizes the operational aspects of CSR and regenerative sustainability, it also showcases cutting-edge research in the field and explores how theoretical models can contribute to a better decision making in this emerging field. To give participants a sense of the richness, diversity and complexity of regenerative sustainability, the course is presented by an international team of academic experts and practitioners.

To help students get maximum value from this course, instructors provide a reading or a small number of readings or video clips to be read or viewed before the start of classes with a related task scheduled for class 1 in order to 'jump-start' the learning process.