CUHK Business School Youth Online Courses

CUHK Business School Summer Online Courses offer university students and recent university graduates of any academic background in anywhere to meet and learn with university students across the globe.

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• Certificate of Completion
• Designed and taught by CUHK faculty and seasoned business practitioners
• Small class sizes and taught synchronously (real-time) to ensure extensive interaction with instructor and peers around the world
• Two timeslots of each course are available

Course Overview

All businesses manage risk. We can call this process ‘traditional risk management’ (identifying risk or problems before they happen, such as changing consumer preferences, currency fluctuations, shifts in government policy, and so on). Companies, however, are learning this traditional view of risk is insufficient in a rapidly changing world. For instance, supply chains have become more complex, consumers and investors are calling for more transparency, stakeholders are pressing them on a broad range of social and environmental concerns, etc. All of these changing circumstances pose risk, but a different kind of risk; a process in this course we can call ‘non-traditional risk management’ (such as garment factory collapses in Bangladesh, a growing number of harmful chemicals used to manufacture clothes, or CO2 emissions in factories on the other side of the planet in countries we know little about). Most managers are well equipped to manage traditional risks, but few managers are armed with the knowledge to identify and assess ‘non-traditional risks’, let alone to solve them. In this course, we will examine business sustainability as a form of non-traditional risk management via an exploration of some key issues confronting the fashion industry. No prior business studies knowledge is required, or indeed an interest in fashion. The only real prerequisite is you own one item of clothing with a “Made in XXX” tag.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

1. Understand the difference between traditional and non-traditional risk management;
2. Be able to identify and make simple assessments of non-traditional risk management;
3. Comprehend the relationship between business sustainability and managing non-traditional risk;
4. Be able to make a responsible (sustainable) business decision after identifying and assessing non-traditional business risk.

Topics

Week	Topic
Week 1	Non-traditional risk and sustainable business practices in the fashion industry today
Week 2	The supply chain: managing new forms of risk in a rapidly changing world
Week 3	Case Study: A tale of two brands
Week 4	Can a fashion brand be sustainable/responsible and profitable?

 

Assignment

The assignment is a 7-minute ‘video essay’ presentation, which you will work on in pairs.

 

 

Course Date & Time	3, 10, 17 & 24 August 2020 Class A: Every Monday morning 09:30-11:30 (UTC/GMT +8 hours) Class B: Every Monday afternoons 16:00 - 18:00 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)
Duration	8 hours in 4 consecutive weeks
Course Lecturer	Dr. Stephen FROST Professional Consultant, Department of Management, CUHK Business School
Course Date & Time	3, 10, 17 & 24 August 2020 Class A: Every Monday morning 09:30-11:30 (UTC/GMT +8 hours) Class B: Every Monday afternoons 16:00 - 18:00 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)
Course Date & Time	3, 10, 17 & 24 August 2020 Class A: Every Monday morning 09:30-11:30 (UTC/GMT +8 hours) Class B: Every Monday afternoons 16:00 - 18:00 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)
Course Date & Time	3, 10, 17 & 24 August 2020 Class A: Every Monday morning 09:30-11:30 (UTC/GMT +8 hours) Class B: Every Monday afternoons 16:00 - 18:00 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)
Course Date & Time	3, 10, 17 & 24 August 2020 Class A: Every Monday morning 09:30-11:30 (UTC/GMT +8 hours) Class B: Every Monday afternoons 16:00 - 18:00 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)
Course Date & Time	3, 10, 17 & 24 August 2020 Class A: Every Monday morning 09:30-11:30 (UTC/GMT +8 hours) Class B: Every Monday afternoons 16:00 - 18:00 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)
Course Date & Time	3, 10, 17 & 24 August 2020 Class A: Every Monday morning 09:30-11:30 (UTC/GMT +8 hours) Class B: Every Monday afternoons 16:00 - 18:00 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

 

Miss Teresa Chung
Phone: (852) 3943 4413
Email: apib@cuhk.edu.hk

August, 2020

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