Course Meeting Times
This course meets for the second half of the semetser.
Lectures: 1.5 hours / session, 2 sessions / week
Prerequisites
Graduate level courses in operations management, logistics design and / or supply chain management preferred.
Grading
The course grade will be distributed as follows:
| ACTIVITIES | PERCENTAGES |
|---|---|
| Team project | 50% (A 10–15 page critical analysis paper.) |
| Final Presentation Team Project | 15% |
| Case Study / Assignments | 20% |
| Class Participation | 15% |
Calendar
| SES # | LECTURE TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to Green Supply Chain Management | |
| 2 | Invited Speaker: Gregor Thompson (GENCO) |
Final project assignments Homework 1 (see Assignments) |
| 3 | Reverse Logistics / Closing the Loop |
Project Deliverable 1 Homework 2 and Homework 3 (see Assignments) |
| 4 | Carbon Footprinting (A. Craig) | Homework 4 (see Assignments) |
| 5 | Life Cycle Analysis (A. Craig) | Homework 5 (see Assignments) |
| 6 | Invited Speaker: Martin Wolf – 7th Generation | Project Deliverable 2 |
| 7 | Multi-stakeholder engagements (A. Bateman) | Homework 6 (see Assignments) |
| 8 | Invited Speaker: Environmental Defense Fund | |
| 9 | Invited Speaker: Noelle Selin – MIT Environmental Policy | Project Deliverable 3 |
| 10 | Green SC Strategy (All) | Pre-reading |
| 11 | Invited Speaker: Katie Schindall - EMC | |
| 12 | Final Presentations I | Project Final Deliverable |
| 13 | Final Presentation II |