New Product Development: Design for Sustainability
MGT 541
Course Description:
If an organization's products and services are its most important output, then one can assume that the design and development of these outputs is one of its most important functions. Yet, while the modern product design function has grown up in a world of cheap energy, offshore labor, economies of scale, and industrial chemistry, we see a number of issues that our current approach does not seem able to address. For example we see growing concerns about environmental problems (e.g., pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss), about social problems (e.g., poverty, health, safety, regulation, social values), and about economic problems (e.g., trade inequity, access to capital, and inefficient technologies); these problems can all be linked to the ways in which we design, produce, and consume products.
With this in mind, this course aims to provide students with a basic framework for understanding (and challenging) traditional product development thinking by participating in a process aimed at designing products and services that meet the goal of sustainable production and consumption.
2 Credit(s)
Faculty:
- David Owens (View Profile)
Subject Area(s):
- Ethics and Social Responsibility
Program(s):
- MBA
Please Note: Not all courses are scheduled each semester. Complete class schedules are available upon enrollment.
