Graduate Curriculum Committee - zicklin : school of business - CUNY
Graduate Curriculum Committee - zicklin : school of business - CUNY
Graduate Curriculum Committee - zicklin : school of business - CUNY
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
Tentative Schedule<br />
Week Topics and Links to Slides Readings Deliverables/milestones<br />
1. Course Introduction<br />
What is sustainability and why is it important?<br />
“Green IT: More than a three percent solution?”<br />
Stephen Ruth, IEEE Internet Computing, July/August<br />
2009<br />
2. Making the <strong>business</strong> case for Green IT<br />
**CASE: “Green IT matters at Wipro LTD”, Indranil<br />
Bose & R. Chandrasekhar, Asia Case Research Centre,<br />
The University <strong>of</strong> Hong Kong, 2009.<br />
3. Climate change and its impact: Role <strong>of</strong> IT<br />
“My IT carbon footprint”, Kirk W. Cameron, IEEE<br />
Computer, November 2009.<br />
4. Basics about energy<br />
Business <strong>of</strong> Green<br />
“Competitive Environmental Strategies: When does it<br />
pay to be green?” Renato Orsato, California<br />
Management Review, 48(2), 2006.<br />
“Why sustainability is now the key driver <strong>of</strong> innovation”<br />
Ram Nidumolu, C. K. Prahalad, M. R. Rangaswami,<br />
Harvard Business Review, September 2009.<br />
“Smart appliances learning to save power grid”,<br />
MSNBC.com, November 26, 2007.<br />
5. Standards, regulations, and initiatives<br />
“America’s Green Strategy”, Michael Porter (in Business<br />
and the Environment, (eds.) Richard Welford and<br />
Richard Starkey, Taylor and Francis, 1996.<br />
“Green Rankings: The 2009 List”, Newsweek<br />
“Negotiators at climate talks face deep set <strong>of</strong> fault lines”,<br />
Tom Zeller, New York Times, December 5, 2009.<br />
6. **CASE: Corporate Greenhouse Gas Accounting:<br />
Carbon Footprint Analysis, Case: UVA-ENT-0113,<br />
Darden Business Publishing, 2009<br />
**CASE: Carbon credit markets, Case: UVA-F-1583,<br />
Darden Business Publishing, 2009.<br />
7. Global view<br />
“China builds high wall to guard energy industry” New<br />
York Times, July 13, 2009.<br />
“China racing ahead <strong>of</strong> US in the drive to go solar”,<br />
New York Times, August 24, 2009.<br />
Syllabus<br />
WW 1<br />
F 1 & 2<br />
E-Reserve<br />
WW 3<br />
ACRC<br />
F 5, 6, & 7<br />
E-Reserve<br />
WW 4, 5, 6<br />
F 9, 10, & 11<br />
E-Reserve<br />
WW 2<br />
F 12<br />
F 3, 4, 8, & 13<br />
8. Virtualization WW 10<br />
Student pr<strong>of</strong>ile<br />
Team member List<br />
Project conception (initial report)<br />
Case analysis reports<br />
9. Green data centers<br />
“HP rethinks energy”, Forbes, August 17, 2009.<br />
WW 11
Change language