From Ideas to Action: Planning for sustainable CSR

Project Title

From Ideas to Action: Planning for sustainable CSR

Project Leader

Dr Mary Ho

School / Dept

SBM / MGMT

Project Duration

Aug 2015 - Mar 2017

Project Description

The objectives of the experiential learning project are as follows:

• To enable students to recognize the CSR challenges face by businesses and understand stakeholder impacts of their actions;
• To facilitate students’ application of classroom-learnt knowledge to real life context in creative forms; and
• To enhance students’ leadership skills and teamwork ability.  The learning outcomes of the project are as follows:
• To be able to recognize the key sustainability topics and high-priority issues of businesses to be socially responsible and sustainable;
• To be able to diagnose the CSR issues and understand the challenges of creating shared value; and
• To be able to enhance an entrepreneurial mind-set and design effective and innovative solutions in a professional and persuasive manner.

Project Outcome

• A total of 4 NGOs and social enterprises, and 6 companies partnered with the course on the experiential learning student projects in 2015-16 and 2016-17.
• A total of 651 business undergraduates (Year 3 & 4) worked together with our community partners in 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 academic year.
  • 216 students (3 sessions) in Fall 2015
  • 197 students (3 sessions) in Spring 2016
  • 130 students (2 sessions) in Fall 2016
  • 108 students (2 sessions) in Spring 2017
• A total of 93 student projects were created in areas of CSR initiative creation, project impact evaluation, and corporate partner identification for our community partners.
• MaBelle Group (one of the community partner) invited 3 project groups to execute their project idea in Winter 2018.

Status

Completed

Project Documents
(Only accessible by HKUST users)

• Project Plan

Adaptation

Full Project