Strategic Change Towards Sustainability

Required Textbook Readings Benn et al (2019) Chapter 5 - Sustainability: The Strategic Advantage – (MO 6.1, 6.2) Benn et al (2019) Chapter 6 - Sustaining Corporations – (MO 6.1, 6.2) Benn et al (2019) Chapter 7 - Incremental & Transformational Changes - (MO 6.1, 6.2) Dear Class, Please remember to read Benn et al (2019) chapters 5, 6, and 7, as mentioned in the Module's introduction. In addition, please visit the following website for insights on the GRI guidelines - which were outlined above in the shared video. https://www.greenbiz.com/article/how-make-your-materiality-assessment-worth-effort Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDe8Kkh1BrU&t=1s Part I: The Strategic Advantage Part II: Sustaining the Corporation Part III: Moving Between Phases of Change Dear Students, After you have conducted the readings, and viewed the selected videos for this module, please proceed and respond to the following questions: A. What do we mean by taking a strategic advantage towards sustainability? (Benn et al, 2019 - ch 5). B. Please choose one of the Waves of Sustainability, either the first or second wave (Benn et al, 2019), and make recommendations for a known firm as to how it will transition into the next wave. (Benn et al, 2019 - ch6). C. In Benn's et al (2019) chapter 7 - the authors point to launching and managing a change program. Please share your thoughts on 2 key bullets here. Instructions: For the above, you must present these insights in paragraph form and fill the whole page in fluent business English (no errors). Your feedback MUST reach 500 words for the entire forum (see rubric below for quality and criteria of your post), which is equivalent to the entire page on the given screen. If you are seeking extra credit for this post, and have met the 500 word count (and score a 2 on each of the 3 criteria), please compliment your post with additional research (share link to recent/relevant article, or resource and its summary/direct link to the question), and practice reflections via relevant known firm and/or news briefs about the chosen firm and its operating sector and industry (extra credit word count is then 750 words). You should only relate to your current employer once or twice in the 7 modules (Discussion Board posts).