Impact, Value, and the Materiality of Sustainability

Program Experience

Highlights and Key Outcomes

In Impact, Value, and the Materiality of Sustainability, you will:

• Demonstrate mastery of topics such as climate-risk governance, competitive sustainability strategies, geopolitical scenario planning, and data analytics
• Understand how to create long-term sustainable value while achieving stakeholder harmony
• Understand their role as stewards for environmental and societal change
• Feel empowered to drive positive change in your organization
• Explore real-life, practical examples of responsible investment in practice
• Be part of a global network of peers and continue to share best practices in the changing landscape of responsible investment

Experience and Impact

This course is a nine-week live online program complemented with asynchronous materials.

The program consists of a mixture of engaging live online sessions. Learners will be expected to complete between one to two hours of independent study outside of this time, assigned to them by the course leaders.

Within the live sessions, participants will enjoy a mixture of leading academic speakers, panels with industry experts, interactive exercises, and scenario analyses.

Module 1: Responsible Investment: Evolution, Implementation, and Future Perspectives

• ESG integration
• History of the movement
• ESG backlash

Module 2: Purpose and Financial Performance

• Challenges and opportunities of creating a purpose-driven company
• Decisions, employee engagement, and stakeholder management
• Relationship between purpose, financial performance, and corporate strategy

Module 3: Governance of Socio-Political

• Role of governance in addressing social and political challenges
• ESG framework integration for boards
• Responding to non-market risk
• Responsible political engagement and aligned social and political strategy

Module 4: Climate Transition

• Why climate change is important to business leaders
• Smooth transition to a net-zero economy
• Climate-related financial disclosure regimes globally

Module 5: Strategy, Environmental Sustainability, and Geostrategy

• Creating competitive advantage through sustainability efforts
• Potential geopolitical scenarios for 2030 and implication for investors, senior leaders, and strategists
• Develop your own geostrategy

Module 6: Carbon Pricing and Climate Risk

• Corporate strategies to reduce exposure to climate risk
• Carbon markets
• Climate-risk strategy in energy, transportation, and real estate sectors

Module 7: Measuring Value and Impact

• How and where good and gold may not live well together
• Investment style and investor perspective
• Measurement tools and strategies

Module 8: Stakeholder and Shareholder Activism

• Latest trends in shareholder and stakeholder activism
• Patterns in types of issues demanded in activist campaigns
• Tactics for response to activism and activist engagement

Due to our application review period, applications submitted after 12:00 p.m. ET on Friday for programs beginning the following Monday may not be processed in time to grant admission. Applicants will be contacted by a member of our Client Relations Team to discuss options for future programs and dates.