Learners who complete a course in Sustainable Marketing gain the ability to integrate sustainability principles into marketing strategies, ensuring alignment with globalized value exchange, environmental responsibility, equitable business practices, ethical consumption, and quality of life. Companies will benefit significantly from learners with expertise in Sustainable Marketing by gaining an improved brand reputation, increased competitive advantage, and access to a growing segment of eco-conscious consumers. These learners can also help mitigate ethical and environmental risks, ensuring the company's long-term sustainability and profitability in a marketplace where sustainability is an increasingly critical factor influencing consumer choices and corporate success.

This semester students working in groups of 5-6 will apply their knowledge in marketing to help your organization seize a marketing opportunity, develop a strategic marketing plan, or solve a current marketing challenge. The students will use marketing research, strategy, digital promotional tools, and marketing best practices to create a report and presentation.

Learners in the Sustainable Marketing course develop the skills to integrate sustainability principles into marketing strategies. They are equipped to enhance brand reputation, gain competitive advantage, and engage eco-conscious consumers by aligning marketing efforts with environmental responsibility and ethical business practices. These capabilities can be applied to projects that aim to improve a company's sustainability profile, mitigate risks, and ensure long-term profitability in a market increasingly influenced by sustainability.

The MBA students are in a capstone project-based course, designed for students in the final term of their MBA program. The course has a strong analytical, applied, and experiential orientation. Students work in groups of 4-5 to focus on a challenge/opportunity for the business. The students' process - and ultimate deliverable will include a current analysis of the business, problem or opportunity identification, research (as applicable), recommended solutions/strategy with implementation plan, budget and finally, risk identification and mitigation strategies (again, as applicable). The project can be for a Canadian business of any size, however enterprises run by solo-preneurs would probably not provide the necessary scope.