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 |
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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 |