
Authored by Student Sustainability Associates Lauren Buchanan and Rob Self
Over the past several years, Student Sustainability Associates (SSAs) have investigated the prevalence of sustainability topics in the Harvard Business School (HBS) first year Required Curriculum (RC). The outcome has been an implementation of new, sustainability-related cases into the existing RC curriculum. Interested in building on this work, we sought to develop an understanding of the sustainability course offerings in HBS second year Elective Curriculum (EC).
With increased interest in environmental topics by incoming students as evidenced by year-over-year growth in interest metrics tracked by the HBS Business and Environment …