MSc Management for Sustainability Transitions

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Lead sustainability transitions in various contexts

Climate change, biodiversity loss, rising inequalities, and other societal challenges call for systemic changes. But how can managers catalyze, guide, and sustain actions toward much required sustainability transitions? How can they take a wider approach to innovation to simulate new forms of organizations and processes toward this end? 

Program Highlights

After completing the program, you'll be able to position yourself as a catalyst for change by integrating sustainability into core business strategies, ensuring that environmental and social considerations are embedded in decision-making processes. Sustainability has transitioned from a peripheral concern to a central strategic priority for organizations worldwide driven by heightened stakeholder awareness, regulatory pressures, and the tangible impacts of climate change.

The proliferation of ESG reporting standards, such as the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), highlights the demand for professionals adept in sustainability disclosures and compliance. Through dedicated courses and connection to experts in the field, graduates from this program exit with skills in reporting frameworks and with a regulatory understanding which guide organizations in transparent reporting, risk management, and stakeholder communication.

Sustainability challenges are global and interconnected, necessitating collaboration across sectors and borders. Graduates from this program can play a pivotal role in forging partnerships between governments, businesses, and civil society. By facilitating knowledge exchange and coordinated action, you can amplify the impact of sustainability initiatives and drive systemic change.

Building on Grenoble Ecole de Management’s vibrant sustainability-oriented regional eco-system, the actions and initiatives of GEM's Chaire Territoires en Transition, as well as European partners, program participants will have the opportunity to discuss recent research insights, connect to current actors in the field, and learn through practical applications of tools and frameworks.  

Key Points

This program is for students who want to lead or catalyze transformational change in the private, public, or non-profit sectors toward sustainability.

• Strategies for sustainability: Integrate sustainable development principles and frameworks (Sustainable Development Goals-SDGs, planetary boundaries) into forward-looking strategies.
• Scenario analysis: Consider long-term implications of a business problem, formulating scenarios for possible futures.
• Change agency: Organize and lead change towards organizational, industry, and societal sustainability transitions.
• Innovation for sustainability: Develop and evaluate smart business innovations, using technology as part of a holistic approach.
• Extended life cycle analysis: Assess and critically reflect on the social and environmental impact of a product/service.
• Inclusive governance: Adopt an inclusive and ethical management approach, placing governance at the center.
• Systems thinking: Manage complex, unpredictable situations that require alternative solution models across sectors – both nationally and internationally.
• Collective action: Understand how to lead and collaborate efficiently with different stakeholders for a desired outcome.