90595 - ETICA E SOSTENIBILITA' NELLE DECISIONI AZIENDALI

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Business Administration (cod. 0897)

Course contents

The diifferent levels of strategic value of sustainability

Domination, power and violence

Fundamentals of ethical approach

Sustainable business models

Ethics, technology and artificial Intelligence

Ethics and business: having a market economy or being a market-based society

Ethics and environment


Readings/Bibliography

Boschetti Carlo, Il senso della vita e i criceti, Aracne editrice, 2021, cap. 1, cap. 6, Conclusioni

Boschetti Carlo, chap. 11 Etica e responsabilità sociale dell'impresa, in Lipparini Andrea, L'impresa, Il Mulino, 2022.

Chiriatti Massimo, Incoscienza artificiale: Come fanno le macchine a prevedere per noi, Luiss University Press Roma, 2021

Boschetti Carlo, Il dominio economico dell'uomo sull'uomo, Oikonomia, N. 3, Ottobre 2022, https://www.oikonomia.it/index.php/it/126-2022/ottobre-2022/1213-il-dominio-economico-dell-uomo-sull-uomo

M.E. Porter, M. R. Kramer, Creating Shareholder Value. How to reinvent capitalism – and unleash a wave of innovation and growth Harvard Business Review, January-February 2011

Ram Nidumolu, C.K. Prahalad, M.R. Rangaswami, Why sustainability is now the key driver of innovation, Harvard Business Review, September 2009

T. Whelan, E. Douglas, How to Talk to Your CFO About Sustainability, Harvard Business Review, January-February 2021

 

Suggestions (not for the final assessment)

S.L. Lewis, M.A. Maslin, The human planet. How we created the Antropocene, Penguin Books, London, 2018

Benanti Paolo, Human in the loop. Decisioni umane e intelligenze articìfiali, Mondadori Università, MI 2022.

Billari Francesco, Demografia è oggi: Costruire il futuro con le lenti della demografia, EGEA, 2023

M.J. Sandel, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012


Teaching methods

Interactive lectures, companies speakers

Assessment methods

Multiple choices and open questions

Alternatively, the student can propose to carry out a study project on the sustainability strategy of a specific company od her/his choice that has given her/him availability to be studied. In this case the project must be approved by the teacher

Office hours

See the website of Carlo Boschetti

SDGs

No poverty Good health and well-being Affordable and clean energy Climate Action

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.