FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ON SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODELS

Dates: 20 - 21 February, 2015.
Venue: XLRI, Jamshedpur.
Organizers: SBM Forum and XLRI, Jamshedpur.
About: With an aspiration to scale-up the program and to encourage faculty to teach the program in their respective schools, the course on ‘Sustainable Business Models’ will be delivered to faculty from eminent B-Schools. This FDP will be a two day workshop, detailing the pedagogy for SBM, conducted by MART experts along with experts from the industry and academia. Faculty Development Programme (FDP) aims at equipping teachers with skills and knowledge that are essential for inculcating a thought process regarding SBM amongst students and guiding their progress towards a career in SBM.

A list of the broad themes to be discussed in the FDP is as follows:

• Sustainable Business Models – Relevance and its future
• Sustainability and Business
• Discussion on National Voluntary Guidelines
• Concepts and Frameworks
• SBM- Business Model Innovation
• Conversation on BoP
• SBM approach - Business Process Re-engineering
• SBM approach - Customer Centric Models
• Emerging phenomena – Bio-mimicry, HIP Investing, Mission Zero
• Sustainability Assessment
• Assessment Framework for the course.