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Competitive Strategy:

Accelerating Growth Through Sustainable Solutions

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Why enroll in this course?

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Boost your organization's positioning with sustainable strategies that reduce environmental impact while enhancing efficiency and long-term profitability.

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Enhance your sustainable leadership skills to craft high-impact initiatives, drive transformational change, and strengthen your position as a market leader.

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Strengthen your strategic planning and craft long-term roadmaps to drive sustainable innovation and gain a competitive advantage.

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Engage in two live sessions with MIT instructors, and up to eight live sessions with learning facilitators, industry experts, and peers.

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Networking opportunities establish professional connections with industry experts and your cohort.

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Access to rich supplementary resources provides additional materials and content for a more thorough educational journey.

What will you learn?

What will you learn?

  • Master how to navigate transformative forces and analyze business models for effective adaptation to emerging trends.

  • Create strategic initiatives that balance profitability with sustainability, cultivating an overall competitive advantage.

  • Examine real-world case studies and examples to determine the best strategic changes for organizations.

  • Engage and manage diverse stakeholders to support sustainable initiatives.

  • Learn how to transition from 'business as usual' to a sustainable economy by leveraging technology, understanding policy frameworks, and applying innovative business models.

  • Lead with sustainable innovation and strategy, while understanding the global impacts on business transformation to ensure future success.

  • Lead and manage organizational change and transformation effectively.

  • Analyze business models to develop comprehensive strategies for creating, delivering, and capturing value.

All the participants who successfully complete their program will receive an MIT Professional Education Certificate of Completion, as well as Continuing Education Units (CEUs)*.

To obtain CEUs, complete the accreditation confirmation, which is available at the end of the course. CEUs are calculated for each course based on the number of learning hours.

*The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is defined as 10 contact hours of ongoing learning to indicate the amount of time they have devoted to a non-credit/non-degree professional development program.

To understand whether or not these CEUs may be applied toward professional certification, licensing requirements, or other required training or continuing education hours, please consult your training department or licensing authority directly.

Course outline

Implementing long-term sustainable strategies requires changes in technology, policy, and business models across sectors. In today’s fast-changing landscape, companies must adapt to evolving imperatives. This course explores how to do so through sustainability, offering strategies applicable to various business needs. Instead of promoting a single approach, it presents examples and cases to help organizations find their own balance between profitability and sustainability for long-term success.

  • Understand how strategy shapes organizational success

  • Explore how strategic decisions influence the design and implementation of business models to achieve sustainable competitive advantage

  • Evaluate real-world examples to understand how successful companies align their business models with strategic objectives

  • Gain insight into firms' motivations and approaches for including sustainability in their strategic goals

  • Delve into the “four lenses” framework as a guide for determining which aspects of sustainability matter the most to organizations

  • Explore methods for aligning business strategy with sustainability goals

  • Identify and assess the impacts of climate change on/from organizations

  • Test and explore cross-sector climate solutions using the En-ROADS simulator

  • Explore the effects of local impacts on climate justice and co-benefits

  • Understand the concept of decarbonization and its importance in combating climate change

  • Explore how technological innovation drives decarbonization efforts

  • Analyze the case study of CEMEX to evaluate its commitment to decarbonization

  • Determine the actionable steps organizations can take to prepare for the long-term, considering the evolving landscape of decarbonization and business sustainability "

  • Use climate scenarios and roadmaps to envision future climate outcomes and guide the development of technology, policy, and business strategies at the firm level

  • Relate firm-level climate pathways to broader sectoral and economic scenarios, analyzing how individual corporate actions might align with overall climate goals

  • Apply climate scenarios to test the robustness of strategic choices, enhancing corporate decision-making through climate-based scenario planning

  • Grasp core competencies and how they support value creation, delivery, and capture in business settings

  • Identify existing and necessary core competencies and assess whether their overlap gives your organization a competitive advantage

  • Transform organizational capabilities into sustainable business models using the RAT (Relevant, Appropriable, Transferable) test

  • Hone your ability to strategically plan and implement innovative practices to maintain competitive advantage.

  • Implement the Sustainable Oriented Innovation (SOI) framework to a real-world business setting to promote sustainability within the innovation process.

  • Critically assess the perceived trade-off between sustainability and profitability, exploring how integrating sustainability into the innovation process can influence a firm's financial performance & long-term success.

  • Identify and characterize the relevant stakeholders that must be involved in realizing systems change

  • Explore the components of a “virtuous circle”

  • Learn how to create a developer proposal

Who is this online course for?

  • Leaders, Entrepreneurs, and Investment professionals aiming to innovate and drive financial growth through new strategic initiatives.

  • Mid-career to senior-level professionals holding managerial positions across any sector who want to explore business models for strategic transformation to make their organizations more competitive.  

  • Corporate Strategists, Operations Managers, Sustainability Managers, or Directors of Sustainability who have a genuine interest in examining innovative techniques to enhance organizational performance and growth.

  • Advisors and Consultants at local, national, and international levels passionate about steering organizations towards long-term success through innovative and sustainable strategic approaches.

Instructor

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Prof. Donald R. Lessard

Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management and Professor of Systems Engineering, Emeritus, at MIT and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Asia School of Business

"The course has been an invaluable experience, providing deep insights into the challenges and opportunities surrounding sustainability and its impact on business strategies. It offered an engaging exploration of real-world business cases, showcasing how companies successfully integrate sustainability into their core strategies to drive growth and build a competitive edge. Through the course, I gained practical tools, frameworks, and strategies for embedding sustainability into business models, enabling companies to align long-term success with positive environmental and social impact. One of the most significant takeaways was the complete demystification of the perceived “Economic vs. Sustainability” trade-off—a common barrier for businesses pursuing sustainable transformation. By examining diverse case studies and strategic approaches, the course demonstrated that sustainability is not just a responsibility but a critical driver of innovation, resilience, and long-term profitability. It underscored how sustainability can serve as a source of competitive advantage, ensuring businesses remain viable and impactful in the future. Finally, this experience has equipped me with the knowledge and confidence to champion sustainability as a core business imperative, creating shared value for companies, stakeholders, and the planet, both influencing my business, my work and my career."
Juliano Alberici
Business Unit Head at Princes Limited

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