MSc Global Business & Sustainability

Are you determined and passionate about creating robust sustainability solutions to the world’s toughest problems? In this master, you’ll learn how to embed sustainability into the core of business’ (international) operations, how new social enterprises are changing the face of industries, and how companies and NGOs can collaborate and partner to tackle societal grand challenges.

The curriculum focuses on how organisations can tackle grand societal challenges through high-learning engagement, for example seminars, presentations, critical discussions, and guest lectures.

You will:

• understand organisations embedded within sustainable socio-ecological systems
• learn tools and frameworks that enable applying knowledge to create sustainability solutions
• challenge the current status-quo and critically ask ‘is this the way things should work?’
• discover how all of this works in practice through our extensive alumni network of global changemakers including CEOs, governmental politicians, professors and social entrepreneurs.

Our courses are designed to provide you with knowledge, skills and attitude for meaningful careers in a new paradigm of business. For example, the Sustainability Grand Challenges core course sets you the task of creating new business solutions to tackle a real societal problem, and pitch it to a multi-stakeholder jury. Our elective portfolio is updated annually to reflect the fast-changing business sustainability landscape, and is closely connected with practice. For example, the elective Corporate Social Investment for Positive Change will ask you to provide guidance to real corporate social investors on the problems they are facing.