Topic outline

• Landing page
  Welcome to Sustainable Entrepreneurship
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  I am very excited to have you in this course; the world faces some extensive sustainability issues, and requires massive systemic change.  For their part, entrepreneurs play a critical role in transitioning to a new sustainable system, though this is not easy. Against this backdrop, this course aims to help you better understand the role of entrepreneurs in creating systems change.  A word of caution though: one course alone cannot teach you everything you need to know. Rather, I emphasize that this is a starting point.
  

  
  

  • 

    Announcements Forum

• Course overview (Electronic Syllabus)
  Here you can get a sense of the basic organizational details of the course, of the workload, and of expectations.
  

  
  

  These videos have also been integrated into your pre-session preparation, but I include them here for organizational ease.
  

  
  

  The PowerPoint slides for these videos can be found here: Course background.
  

• Pre-session assignments (e.g., the work to be done before each session)
  I've created a DropBox link for pre-session files (such as the PowerPoint slides used for videos, and articles) as well as post-session files (e.g. the PowerPoint used during the session, and Flinga outputs).
  

  
  

  The can be found here:  Posted files for students   I will also send a direct link in the second week of the course when enrollment has stabilized.
  

  It will be updated throughout the course; post-session files will naturally only go there after the session.

  
  

  The Zoom recordings can be found here: Zoom Recordings
  

  
  

  Below are the separate prep packages for each session.
  

• Session Timing + Zoom links
  
  

  Session #	Date	Session name	Pre-session length	Class length	Zoom Link
  1	01-Nov	Session #1 - What is sustainable entrepreneurship?	3	1.75	https://aalto.zoom.us/j/65104226166
  2	03-Nov	Session #2 - Systems change: Where does sustainable entrepreneurship fit in?	3	1.75	https://aalto.zoom.us/j/65104226166
  3	08-Nov	Session #3 - Where do sustainable entrepreneurship ideas come from?: Ideation	0.5	2	https://aalto.zoom.us/j/65104226166
  4	10-Nov	Session #4 - Iteration in Sustainable Entrepreneurship	3	1.75	https://aalto.zoom.us/j/65104226166
  5	15-Nov	Session #5: What makes sustainable entrepreneurship so hard? (I): Tensions and trade-offs.	1.5	1.75	https://aalto.zoom.us/j/65104226166
  6	17-Nov	Session #6: What makes sustainable entrepreneurship so hard? (II): Complexity.	3	2	https://aalto.zoom.us/j/65104226166
  7	22-Nov	Session #7 - Group Work time (based on Interim report 1 FB)		1.5	https://aalto.zoom.us/j/65104226166
  8	24-Nov	Session #8 - Tensions and complexity in action (I): Early-stage decisions, TenTree	3	2	https://aalto.zoom.us/j/65104226166
  9	29-Nov	Tensions and complexity in action (II): Growth, Tony's Chocolonely	3	2	https://aalto.zoom.us/j/65104226166
  10	01-Dec	Tensions and complexity in action (III): Simulation	1	2	https://aalto.zoom.us/j/65104226166
  11	08-Dec	Group Work time (based on Interim report 2 FB)		2.5	https://aalto.zoom.us/j/65104226166

• Course Deliverables and key dates
  Here you can find details on how you will be evaluated in this course.

  The high-level breakdown is:

  
  

  • Individual Assignments, 55%
    
  • Pre-session preparation work, 16%  (top eight grades from ten sessions used, each session graded 0-2)
    
  • Reflections, 24% (3X8% each)
    
  • Commenting on others' reflections, 15% (5x3% each)
  • Comments and reflections are posted here: Reflections and Comments
    
  • Group Projects (Details found here: Group Projects - Background and Descriptions, while the submission portal is here: Group Projects - Submission portal)
    
  • Final report, 45%
    

  You can find further details below.

  
  

  Key Dates

  Component	Key date
  Pre-session preparation	Due by 13:00 the day of class
  Reflections	All submitted by December 8
  Comments	All submitted by December 15
  Final Project
  Group contract	November 14
  Interim report I	November 20
  Interim report II	Due: December 5 Feedback sessions: in class on December 8
  Final written report	December 17
  Peer Evaluation	December 18

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Note as well:

  Attendance (9/11 course dates required!)

  Attending (9/11) of sessions is obligatory, or you will not get a grade on final report, making it exceedingly difficult to pass the course. These sessions include our nine in-class sessions, and the session given to work on your porjects.
  

  
  

  ETHICAL RULES

  This course will follow the Aalto University Code of Academic Integrity and Handling There of:

  https://into.aalto.fi/display/ensaannot/Aalto+University+Code+of+Academic+Integrity+and+Handling+Violations+Thereof

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

• Reflections and Comments

• Student Questions, general
  Please post any questions here, so that everyone can benefit from them.

• Group Projects - Submission and sign-up portal

• Group Projects - Background and Descriptions