The Wicked Problem of Mental Health and an Equitable Zero-Waste Circular Economy
Stephanie Little, Wittenberg University
My primary approach to the course-specific module was to integrate mental health and its treatment into the common module as much as possible. The one stand-alone course activity involved the students reading ...

Making Vinyl Records Sustainably
Ross Jackson, Wittenberg University
The activity was focused on making vinyl records in a more sustainable way. The company was called "Witt World Records." The waste audit data were used as the basis of creating an internal memo and an ...

Wick3d Designs New Product Negotiation
Bethany Cockbrn, Northern Illinois University
This is a multi-party negotiation role play in which students are given negotiating roles and then are asked to negotiate and agree on a new product for their company. The company's values include ...

Paid Marketing Brief and Circular Economy
Elina Tang, Northern Illinois University
You are a consultant for your chosen brand. They've hired you to evaluate and create a better strategy for their paid digital marketing efforts and asked you to especially highlight that their product(s) ...

Waste Audit
Cody Hyman, Bentley University
We conducted 2 waste audits, one voluntary and one to be turned in to share with the class. This captures different incentives involved with current ESG disclosure (voluntary) and the SEC's proposed mandatory rule.

Design a Flowchart of a Circular Economy in a Consumer Packaged Good
Tim Bode, Wittenberg University
For my Busn340 marketing class, the class must divide up into groups and conduct a semester long research project to develop a new brand of product in one of the following consumer packaged goods categories: 1) ...

Sustainability and Tax Policy
Tracy Noga, Bentley University
In this assignment students were asked to propose a tax policy change that would encourage businesses or individuals to promote a more sustainable economy. Students are encouraged to think broadly in terms of ...

Sustainable Business Model Development
Sunny Jeong, Wittenberg University
This course will explore this emerging, highly interdisciplinary field of social entrepreneurship through a social venture business plan and teams can choose topics provided at the beginning of this semester ...

Are Clean Tech Startups Sustainable and/or Circular?
Zana Cranmer, Bentley University
Students apply what they have learned from the common exercise to a clean tech startup company. They map out the lifecycle of the product or service, identify potential impacts in each phase, and evaluate the ...

Sustainable Lifecycle Project
Tomoyuki Shibata, Northern Illinois University
Group of students investigate impacts on health from linear lifecycle and propose how to make it circular lifecycle. Students are required to interview stakeholders, conduct SWOT analysis, and address challenges ...