This week’s topics
Barriers and Challenges to Sustainability
- Upfront capital costs and delayed payback periods
- Multi-tier supply chain opacity
- Organizational inertia and cultural resistance
- Misaligned executive incentives
- Technology Solutions for Global Supply Chain Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities
- Week 4-Lecture 24 : Green Supply Chain
What you will be able to do
- 1.4 Appreciate the barriers or challenges to businesses with regards to sustainability.
Activity
Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: appreciate the barriers or challenges to businesses with regards to sustainability.
Study materials
Videos
- Technology Solutions for Global Supply Chain Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 51 min · for registered students
- State of Supply Chain Sustainability - MIT CTL & CSCMP · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 53 min · for registered students
- 🌍 Earth Month Webinar: Turning sustainability challenges into business opportunities · YouTube · Saïd Business School, University of Oxford · 57 min · for registered students
- Data-Driven Sustainability: Transforming Global Supply Chains with AI · YouTube · eCornell · 61 min · for registered students
Further resources
- The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance · PDF · NBER, article · for registered students
- Supply Chain Sustainability: A Practical Guide for Continuous Improvement, 2nd ed. (UN Global Compact & BSR, 2015) · PDF · Un, guidance; 76 pages · for registered students
- Guide to Corporate Sustainability: Shaping a Sustainable Future (UN Global Compact, 2014) · PDF · Un, guidance; 48 pages · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
