Syllabus

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
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