Climate & Sustainability Curriculum

In addition to being a club focused on career opportunities, the Green Business Club also works with the administration and faculty to enable students to pursue courses in green business and sustainability.

CBS Academics – List of Relevant Courses

• Spring 2022:
  • Impact Investing
  • Business Strategies and Solving Social Problems
  • Catching Growth Waves: To 2050 and Beyond
  • Challenges in Launching and Growing Social Ventures
  • Climate Change and the Energy Transition (Wagner)
  • Climate Finance
  • Project Finance: Principles and Applications to Emerging Markets
  • Challenges in Measurement & Disclosure of Environmental, Social and Governance Data
  • Business and Society: Reconciling Shareholder and Stakeholder Interests

• Fall 2021:
  • Climate Finance
  • Climate Change and the Energy Transition (Heal)
  • Investing in Social Ventures
  • Social Venture Incubator
  • ESG Equity Investing
  • Innovation Salon
  • Catching Growth Waves: to 2050 and Beyond

• Previous Offerings:
  • Finance and Sustainability (last offered Fall 2020)
  • The Business of Climate Change: Investing and Managing in a Changing Environment (last offered Fall 2020)
  • Social Entrepreneurship: Global Perspective (last offered Fall 2019)
  • Investor Influence on Corporate Sustainability (last offered Fall 2019)
  • Business in Society: Doing Well by Doing Good? (last offered Spring 2019)

Full listing of CBS Courses

For a complete list of elective courses associated with the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise, please visit their listing here.

Student Initiated Projects

• Developing Go Green Logo and Guide for clubs, departments and conferences
• Promoting reusable plastic steins as an alternative to disposable cups at Happy Hour
• Reducing paper usage in conjunction with ITG by eliminating the automatic cover page
• Leading campaign to encourage the administration to commit to LEED Platinum status for the Manhattanville campus business school building and preparing green feature recommendations for the building
• Creating awareness of Uris and Warren purified water machines and the reusable mug coffee discount in Uris Deli

Sustainability Consulting to CBS Departments, Students, and Clubs

• Launching improved recycling program in common spaces and offices
• Greening on-campus recruiting events
• Greening CBS and local vendor procurement policies
• Greening club events, orientation and conferences
• Providing a 100% recycled, biodegradable business card option to students
• Lowering energy usage via climate control, higher quality light bulbs and energy efficient computing
• Preparing economic analysis of installing a green roof on Uris Library