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Nicholas Switanek
Nicholas Switanek

MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATIONS
Visiting Assistant Professor of Management & Organizations

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Nick Switanek is Visiting Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, his M.S. in Statistics from Stanford University, and his B.A. and B.S. from the University of Arizona. Professor Switanek’s research and teaching explore the intersection of organization theory, management strategy, and environmental sustainability. At Kellogg, he teaches Business Design for Environmental Sustainability. He also team teaches a project-based course on energy innovation with faculty from Northwestern’s Schools of Engineering, Law, and Arts & Sciences.
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Professor Switanek’s teaching explores the intersection of organization theory, management strategy, and environmental sustainability. He developed and teaches Business Design for Environmental Sustainability (MORS 925-0). He also team teaches a project-based course on energy innovation with faculty from Northwestern’s Schools of Engineering, Law, and Arts & Sciences.
Full-Time / Part-Time MBA
Business Design for Environmental Sustainability (MORS-925-0)
Will you lead the next industrial revolution? To lead and profit from the revolutionary alignment of business practice with environmental sustainability requires abilities to rethink and redesign the core functions of business organizations. Through a mixture of case studies, class discussion, team-based projects and class visitors, this course helps students build strength in designing organizations for environmental sustainability. Students will learn how the green redesign of core organizational processes is generating competitive advantage for existing companies throughout the world; develop skills in identifying and prioritizing the many profitable opportunities to green business practices in light of shareholder value and ecological integrity; and consider how relations between organizational components can foster or undermine organizational commitments to sustainability, as well as how one firm’s leadership can spark the revolution in core organizational practices needed to sustain the lasting health of natural, social and economic systems. The course provides students an opportunity to craft a professional response to the world's monumental environmental challenges.