Go Green with Executive Education

Sustainable business practices continue to grow in importance to organizations across the country. Executive Education recognizes this and has partnered with the University of Arkansas Applied Sustainability Center to offer many new courses in this emerging field.

The mission of the Applied Sustainability Center is to lead organizations in the retail and consumer goods industries toward sustainable practices that support an economy built around people, planet, and profit. This is accomplished by solving complex problems, providing expert guidance, brokering problems and solutions, and by sponsoring research.

On September 30, we held our first sustainability course, the Wal-Mart Supplier Sustainability Assessment. This 90-minute program was available both in-person and online.

November will be a very green month at the Reynolds Center, with two sustainability courses on the schedule. They are the following:

Corporate Greenhouse Gas Inventory
This course is available in-person and online.
Stakeholders are beginning to expect companies to report their corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to publicly set reduction goals. This one-day course will give participants the knowledge and tools needed to compile their GHG inventory in accordance with generally accepted protocols and to publish information to the Carbon Disclosure Project. Participants will learn the basics of greenhouse-gas science, understand the GHG Protocol and Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions, and review the Carbon Disclosure Project and other major sustainability reporting outlets. Students will also be trained on simple tools to help them collect data, calculate their footprint, and set achievable reduction targets.
Date and Time: November 12, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Cost: $145
This course is limited to 60 in-person participants.

Life Cycle Assessment for Managers and Executives
This course is available in-person only.
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a powerful tool for understanding the impacts of a product or service across its entire life, from the extraction of a raw material to use and disposal. As LCA and product sustainability reporting become more mainstream, managers and executives across functional areas need to understand LCA so they can incorporate it in their decision making processes. This one-day course gives participants the ability to do just that. Participants will review LCA theory and work through LCA case studies to gain experience in interpreting and making decisions based on product sustainability information.
Date and Time: November 17, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Cost: $695

For more information on these and other sustainability programs, please visit our website.