The Business School offers a range of undergraduate courses on inclusive and sustainable business. View our partial list.
BUSINESS 112 Managing Sustainable Growth (Required BCom Core course)
Course Overview
BUSINESS 112 builds on the knowledge gained in BUSINESS 111 by asking students to consider the process of managing sustainable business growth. This is an interdisciplinary course integrating topics from Management, Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, International Business, Commercial Law and Operations Management. Throughout this course, you will develop an understanding of how to manage people, processes and resources for the benefit of business and society. You will focus on innovation and entrepreneurship in relation to small and medium-sized enterprises. Then you will consider the decisions and trade-offs involved in growing a business, managing customer relationships, and competing in international markets. You will also explore strategies to enhance productivity, ensure sustainability, and how legal tools can be used to protect value.
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BUSINESS 202 Business Consulting (Required BCom Core course)
Course Overview
BUSINESS 202 combines disciplinary knowledge from all stage one core courses. Knowledge will be applied to three grand challenges facing businesses and the world today – climate change, the future of work, and competing globally. You will learn skills in ethical decision making, interpreting and presenting business information, working in teams, negotiation, and project management. An emphasis is placed on experiential learning and creative, non-traditional assessments. You will experience and work with existing and emerging technologies including virtual reality and immersive collaboration spaces, financial trading room software, and other interactive exercises.
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BUSINESS 350 Business Simulation (BCom Capstone course)
Course Overview
To develop students’ strategic decision-making abilities and business acumen through experiential learning and appreciation of the intersection of different functions in a business through a competitive simulation. Students will be expected to apply content from their previous courses (major specific) as well as the core courses. Students will be working throughout the semester in both groups and individually on a number of assessments.
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BUSINESS 351 Industry Case (BCom Capstone course)
Course Overview
The purpose of this course is to provide students with the opportunity to complete an applied business project. This will require students to demonstrate their understanding of major concepts, tools and trends in strategy and also draw on their individual majors. Students will also be required to use critical and creative thinking to find and evaluate academic and market sources, and to propose solutions to a real-world business problem using these sources. Students will develop professional skills in practice and gain experience in delivering presentations and writing business quality reports.
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COMLAW 314 Employment Law
Course Overview
The aim of the course is to develop the ability of students to identify, apply and critically analyse the law relating to the employment relationship in New Zealand. It is intended both for those who seek to specialise in management or employment relations, and also for those specialising in other areas of business wanting to better understand the rights of employees and legal obligations of employers. The course aims to develop the abilities of students to seek solutions to employment relations problems, and analyse and communicate the impact of the legal and regulatory framework on the employment relationship.
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ECON 305 Economic Policy Analysis
Course Overview
ECON 305 aims to provide students with an experience of economic policy analysis as it happens in the real world. It features guest lectures from external practitioners from industry and government. Students will independently work on an applied policy evaluation project in an area of their choosing, such as health, housing, transport, infrastructure, education, welfare, inequality or sustainability. Students will learn modern econometric policy evaluation tools and develop communication and presentation skills that are valued by employers world-wide. The course requires active participation and engagement. It is an elective course targeted at students in Economics and related majors interested in leveraging the tools of Economics in making an impact on business, economies and society at large.
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ECON 372 Energy and Environmental Economics
Course Overview
The course is an introduction to Energy and Environmental Economics. It discusses the energy trilemma; examines the economics of climate change, including associated global, regional and national policies; evaluates energy policies with respect to efficiency, equity and security; describes and analyses electricity markets, renewables, and the phasing of oil and gas; and considers behavioural aspects of the energy transition and transport electrification. There will be a major group work project which will involve a written critical analysis of a contemporary topic as well as an oral presentation.
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INNOVENT 309 Responsible Innovation
Course Overview
Organisations are facing an increasing need to transform innovation and technology development activities to address global challenges such as climate change, contamination, wastage, inequalities and poverty. The aim of this course is to explore how organisations can maximise the positive economic and societal benefit of their innovation and technology development activities while reducing the negative impacts. Responsible innovation is a process(es) that takes the wider impacts of product, service and technology into account during these transformation and development activities. The course equips students with the frameworks, methods, tools and techniques to analyse, implement and evaluate innovation and technology development processes in an organisational context, to create more sustainable and value-based products, services and technologies for the future.
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INNOVENT 310 Women in Entrepreneurship
Course Overview
This course explores both the challenges and opportunities faced by women entrepreneurs in Aotearoa-New Zealand. We will discuss issues related to gender bias, particularly as they relate to entrepreneurial finance and network support. You will have an opportunity to develop a venture in a team and present this to the class and a panel of women entrepreneurs.
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MGMT 309 Organisational Ethics and Sustainability
Course Overview
MGMT 309 “Organisational ethics and sustainability” challenges students to apply the business knowledge they have been developing during Stage 1 and Stage 2 in a socially and environmentally responsible way through experiential learning and learning by doing. This course therefore bridges the big picture perspective of the grand challenges facing society in the 21st century and the local perspective of what individuals, businesses, governments and supra-national organisations can do to navigate through them. This course prepares students for a variety of career paths as the ability to identify, delineate and solve unstructured and complex problems is at the core of designing new, innovative business models as well as of future proofing existing ones through transformation. Whether students wish to follow an entrepreneurial, managerial, or research oriented (consulting, think tanks) career path, the ability to navigate through complexity and the development of a critical mind set is key to success.
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MKTG 309 Social and Sustainable Marketing
Course Overview
MKTG309 explores how marketers can contribute to a sustainable, healthy, equitable and ethical society. The course explores the need for marketers to be aware of the impact of their actions on the natural environment and society and examines how to embed such issues into marketing decisions. Additionally, marketing techniques are directed towards positive societal change, addressing behaviour change. This course may appeal to those who are interested in using marketing for ‘good’ to drive systemic, organisational, social and individual behaviour change and those interested in a career in not-for-profits, value or purpose-driven organisations and government agencies.
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PROPERTY 382 Māori Land Issues
Course Overview
The goal of the course is to demonstrate Māori land development through three case studies of iwi: Ngāi Tahu, Waikato-Tainui, and Ngāti Whātua. Each iwi represents a journey through colonisation and how land is the centre point of their resistance, renaissance and resilience. The course encourages students to respect and embrace different relationships people have with land and property. The course utilises Māori land to demonstrate different worldviews people have towards resources. Through research and investigation, the course develops students to have solution seeking capabilities. Student will learn to identify problems particular to Māori land and apply solutions. The course uses students’ disciplinary knowledge related to the history of Māori land issues in New Zealand, equipping them with an understanding for dealing with iwi and tribal territories. Students are expected to attend four compulsory all-day wānanga.