25 Aug What’s New in The Green Business Lab
We’ve been working behind the scenes…
…and we’re excited to share what’s new in The Green Business Lab!
As part of our commitment to continuous improvement, we regularly enhance The Lab based on faculty and student feedback, as well as emerging trends in the rapidly evolving field of business sustainability.
These latest enhancements are designed to deepen your students’ understanding of sustainable leadership, stakeholder dynamics, and real-world decision-making—while also equipping you with more seamless facilitation tools.
Here’s a summary of the new updates: Student Website
1. Leadership Decisions: New & Expanded
We’ve expanded descriptions to provide more detail on project implementation, including enabling technologies and process steps. We’ve also reviewed and updated all links to ensure relevance and provide deeper resources.
Life Cycle Innovation:
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Battery Swapping Station
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Regenerative Agriculture (focused on soil health)
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Assembly & Distribution Center Automation
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Commercial Composting
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR):
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B-Corp Assessment (Stakeholder Engagement)
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Partnerships with Nonprofit Organizations (Stakeholder Engagement)
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Quality Certification (Customer & Community Care)
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Environmental Health & Safety Audits (Labor Practices)
In addition, our DEI program has been rebranded as the Culture & Inclusion Program to reflect evolving terminology.
2. Stakeholders
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Enhanced support for the Chief Communications role in stakeholder engagement.
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Updated stakeholder perspectives to reflect current trends and concerns.
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Expanded biographies in the Stakeholder Directory.
We are piloting AI-enabled stakeholder engagement.
3. Skills Tutorials
Real-world executives consistently highlight the need for strong skills in change management, project management, and team effectiveness. In response, we’ve added targeted tutorials to help students build these capabilities.
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Tutorials are brief, optional, and designed to increase awareness of how to apply these skills within the Lab experience.
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Can be self-guided or assigned by faculty.
New Tutorials:
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Change Management
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Learning: How to make Lessons-Learned Stick
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Project Management
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Team Effectiveness
4. Sample Marketing Campaigns
Updated examples created by Lab participants, including:
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Example 30-second videos
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Example storyboards
5. Grade Tracking Enhancements
To help students better track performance:
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A comprehensive list of all graded elements selected by each faculty member, with descriptions and grade weightings.
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Creative Leadership Project scores are now included in the Company Decision Report.
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Participant Reports for Debrief Questions and the CEO Report now display the number of points earned out of the total possible.
6. Updated Lab Navigation and Lab Demo tutorials
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The revised screen recordings highlight recently added Tooltips and instructions.
Instructor Website Updates:
1. Instructor Notes
Updated for all seven Leadership Decision topics. Each Instructor Note now includes:
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A brief overview of the topic
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A summary of the related student tutorial
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A summary of stakeholder perspectives
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A list of optional discussion questions
2. Updated Instructor tutorials
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Instructor Navigation
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Participant Assignments
Interested in seeing the updates firsthand? Request a demo or log in with your Faculty Access to visit the Green Business Lab sample course site!
