Teaching Quantitative Aspects of Sustainability to Business School Students Using Spreadsheet Optimization.

Autor: Paleshi, Arsalan, Raja, Mohammed, Shatzkin, Matt
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Zdroj: Business Education Innovation Journal; Dec2023, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p64-73, 10p
Abstrakt: As sustainability issues in business become more pressing, the need for undergraduate students to understand sustainability and its aspects has grown. At the same time, there exists a variety of ways in which sustainability has been approached and taught within undergraduate education. While qualitative approaches have been used in business school courses, this paper takes a quantitative approach using a spreadsheet optimization method to address aspects of sustainability–people, profit and planet–to undergraduate business students. Students involved with this approach indicated an increased appreciation and understanding of the key aspects of sustainability, as well as confidence in using Excel Solver to build and solve an optimization model that incorporates these aspects into a production and logistics network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index