Financial and Strategy Analysis for Sustainability and Global Development Projects and Organizations

As sustainability shifts from an afterthought to the core of business, leaders need to make sound, evidence-based decisions about sustainability projects and initiatives.

During this course, students develop the strategic, financial, and change-leadership skills needed to evaluate and implement these projects from concept through execution.

This course equips students to analyze and influence real organizational decisions by integrating strategy, finance, and change management.

Working with case examples from business, government, and nonprofits, students learn how organizations choose which projects to pursue, how they allocate scarce resources, and how they successfully (or unsuccessfully) implement change.

The course builds a coherent, actionable set of skills that students can immediately bring back to their workplaces or capstone projects.

Students explore core concepts in organizational strategy and apply them to real cases, practicing strategic analysis and structured discussion.

They learn financial models for evaluating project economics and capital allocation decisions, then use those tools to evaluate case examples from corporations, nongovernment organization (NGOs), and public agencies.

Then, the focus shifts to change management—how to design and deploy strategic and programmatic efforts so they are sustained within organizations.

Students identify and analyze case examples, present their findings, and craft narrative, storytelling-based explanations of their conclusions.