SusTec dives into a new format with its first teaching case study.

The case study captures the project-based, in-class format of the Corporate Sustainability lecture and makes it available to academics and lecturers globally. Over a decade of experience with thousands of students, from undergraduates to executives, has been distilled into the pages of this case study.
Download Navigating tensions and trade-offs in Coop’s sustainability solution portfolio is a case study about Coop, a global sustainability leader in the retail industry. The story is told from the perspective of Coop’s Board of Directors, those who hold ultimate responsibility for the company’s direction and strategy and who must negotiate and decide on the company’s portfolio of sustainability actions.
In the case, the Board of Directors requests Coop’s CEO to commission action proposals on a range of sustainability topics that are most relevant to the organization so the Board can choose a selection of ideas to build a strategy.

Students will get into the shoes of Coop’s Directors and prepare, negotiate, and communicate their decision on which actions Coop will focus on in the coming years. The case centers on that choice process, and how the Board of Directors should select their portfolio of ideas to maintain Coop’s position as a sustainability leader in the retail industry.

We would like to thank Jan Heusser (responsible for the Coop Sustainability Fund) for his collaboration in this case study. In case you’d like to know more about the case or how we use it in our teaching, please get in touch with us!”