Lesson 2:
weee; food and water scarcity, impact on climate change, new megatrends; food losses and wastes;
megatrends: urbanization, leverage technology (industry 4.0), changing demographics, new class of
consumers; how to leverage megatrends; BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS
Lesson 3: Sustainable development
Sustainable development definition; CSR; financial… and other payoffs; 5 reasons to adopt sustainability
(relationship with community, moral obligation, economic reasons, legal compliance, certifications);
Enforcement, compliance, and innovation; stages to develop (common sense, in operations and auditing);
cradle to gate, to grave, to cradle.
Lesson 4/5: sustainable sourcing
Operations management; the Supply chain; 3Ps; Outsourcing becoming popular and reasons (more costs,
lack of technical experience, focus on core activities); 4 stages: our needs and specifications, vendor
preselection, vendor rate, vendor control and contract management.
Lesson 6: Physical distribution
Logistics strategic choices (cost, service level); Sustainable transportation (distance, quantity, fuel, modal
split); endogenous and exogenous factors; carbon footprint auditing (organizational and operational
boundaries, measurement process); steps to eliminate travel waste (identify activities and select solutions).
Lesson 7: Green packaging
Packaging main features; sustainable packaging strategy 4R (reuse, recycle, reform, reduce)
Lesson 10: reverse logistics and closed loop
Definitions; characteristics and differences with forward (uncertainty time, quality, quantity, operations,
consumer behavior); decentralized and centralized (with time value depreciation); 4 questions: why (why
drivers and reasons), who (open loop and closed loop), what (components and products), how
(remanufacturing, reuse, resale, disposal, landfill, recycle, reduce).
L12: guest on LCA
LCA definitions, terminology, motivations.
Lesion 12: design for environment (done as L18)
Definition; circular economy; life cycle analysis and assessment; three main elements; the 7 principles
(development process, resource efficiency and effectiveness, appropriate metrics, portfolio of design
strategies, analysis methods, software capabilities, seek inspiration from nature); three challenges of product
design
Lesson 13: materiality matrix
Definition and why; how to build it (identify stakeholders, interviews, develop questionaries, analyze data,
map the results, share in reports)
Lesson 14: benefit corporation
Definition and why; how to begin a BC (BIA 80/200 (in community, environment, workers, governance), legal
commitment, transparency). B-corp vs. Benefit.
Lesson 15: sustainable production
Production definition; hardware and software levers; manufacturing performances (cost, quality, time, flex);
order qualifier and winner; wastes in production process: social and environmental (water, emissions, noise,
energy, physical waste, land contamination), inefficiencies and lean management (principles, toolkit).
Lesson 16: measuring sustainability
GDP and why not (macroeconomic vs. corporate); HDI, how to calculate it and main performances; problems
in metrics