The lectures are very small, some are quite boring. Activity and quiz are too simple and not so practical as I am from India and I could not related to any of the activity. Quiz could have been better.

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A good start and a lot of potential to upgrade the course content to the current happenings of SDGs and progressed related around the world for much bigger better impacts and inspiration

Interesting as starting point, introduction for the SDGs and how to use them with real examples.

It sounds like you're asking for feedback or a review on how businesses can be driven toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Here's a breakdown based on various elements, focusing on how companies can align their strategies with SDG-driven action. Review on Driving Business Towards the SDGs 1. Strategic Alignment with SDGs: Rating: ★★★★☆ Strengths: Many businesses are aligning their core strategies with the SDGs, recognizing that sustainability is key to long-term profitability and societal responsibility. By mapping business operations to specific SDGs, companies can target their resources and efforts towards measurable, impactful goals. For example, companies in the energy sector are increasingly adopting renewable sources (SDG 7), while companies in the technology sector may focus on innovation for industry, infrastructure, and inclusive societies (SDG 9). Opportunities for Improvement: Not all companies are integrating the SDGs deeply into their business models. There’s a gap in translating high-level goals into operational actions that can be measured and tracked effectively. More businesses need to establish clear metrics to ensure they’re not only talking the talk but walking the walk. 2. Leadership Commitment and Culture Shift: Rating: ★★★☆☆ Strengths: Top management commitment is critical for driving SDGs into business culture. Companies like Patagonia or Unilever demonstrate how sustainability can be embedded into organizational culture, influencing everything from supply chain decisions to product innovation. Leadership should be actively promoting SDG alignment to foster a bottom-up cultural change. Challenges: While the commitment at the top is essential, it can sometimes be limited to corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs rather than being embedded into every business function. There’s still a need for more leadership-driven systemic change to achieve holistic SDG integration, especially in industries like manufacturing or fast fashion. 3. Collaboration and Partnerships (SDG 17): Rating: ★★★★★ Strengths: Business ecosystems benefit from multi-stakeholder collaboration, which is a core component of SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals). By collaborating with governments, NGOs, and other corporations, businesses can scale their impact and address systemic challenges, such as climate change, poverty, or inequality. For instance, Microsoft’s AI for Earth program and Nestlé’s partnership with the Fair Labor Association demonstrate how businesses can contribute to both local and global SDG efforts. Opportunities for Improvement: While partnerships are common, businesses still need to overcome issues like transparency, accountability, and cross-sector coordination. More efforts are needed to streamline partnerships and focus on co-created solutions that ensure a broader, more integrated impact. 4. Measuring Impact: Rating: ★★★☆☆ Strengths: The measurement of impact is essential to ensuring SDG goals are achieved, and some companies have developed sophisticated ways to track their contributions. Initiatives like the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and B Corp certification provide businesses with frameworks for measuring their impact. Challenges: Many businesses still struggle with the complexity of impact measurement. SDG impacts are often broad and multi-dimensional, making it difficult to tie them directly to company performance. In some sectors, such as construction or agriculture, measuring environmental impact, social outcomes, and long-term effects is particularly challenging. 5. Consumer Demand and Market Opportunities: Rating: ★★★★☆ Strengths: The consumer market is increasingly driven by sustainability preferences, with many individuals willing to pay more for ethically produced goods. Business growth and market differentiation are often linked to a commitment to sustainability. Brands such as Tesla have demonstrated that the market rewards businesses that innovate in line with SDG 13 (Climate Action), while companies like Ben & Jerry's have excelled in areas of social justice (SDG 10). Opportunities for Improvement: While demand is rising, greenwashing (misleading claims about sustainability) continues to be a concern. Clear and credible messaging is needed to differentiate companies that genuinely contribute to SDGs from those that are simply capitalizing on the trend. Overall Assessment: Rating: ★★★★☆ Driving business towards the SDGs is a multifaceted challenge but also an exciting opportunity. Many companies are making impressive strides in aligning their business models with sustainability goals. However, gaps remain in systemic integration of the SDGs, measurement of impact, and accountability mechanisms. Suggestions for Improvement: Encourage businesses to embed sustainability into every aspect of their operations, not just as a CSR activity. Support cross-sector collaboration to tackle larger, systemic challenges such as poverty or climate change. Invest in better impact measurement tools and transparency to track progress against SDG targets. Final Thought: While some businesses have made significant progress in aligning their operations with the SDGs, broader industry-wide transformations will be required to fully achieve the SDGs by 2030. Continuing to drive innovation, leadership, and partnerships will be crucial in these efforts. Call for Collaboration Dear Respected Colleagues, As a Professor of Geopolitics, Ambassador for Peace at the United Nations Office, and President of the Swiss Committee for the Recognition of the Republic of Kosovo at the United Nations, I feel it is crucial to highlight the ongoing struggle for truth and justice faced by the families of the over 1640 missing persons from Kosovo. April 27th, National Day of the Missing in Kosovo, serves as a painful reminder of the unimaginable burden carried by families who have been living with the absence of their loved ones for over 20 years. These families, many of whom still suffer, seek not only recognition and justice, but the most basic human right: the truth about what happened to their loved ones. The international community must unite to support the ongoing efforts to uncover the fate of the missing. Through partnerships, both at governmental and non-governmental levels, we can raise awareness and continue to push for Serbia’s full cooperation in opening archives related to these tragic events. This is the time to come together and act, to ensure that the victims’ memories are not erased and their families are given the justice they deserve. Call for Action: The SKUN Foundation remains committed to the recognition of Kosovo and its international acceptance. We are focused on working alongside the United Nations and international bodies to ensure that the truth about the disappeared is revealed. I call on governments, NGOs, and concerned citizens to partner with us in this critical mission. Together, we can demand the transparency and accountability that is essential for peace and healing. We urge the international community to continue exerting pressure on Serbia to open its archives and collaborate fully in these investigations. Your support, both in advocacy and in raising awareness, is key to obtaining the answers that these families deserve. One Thing I Can Change Tomorrow Reflecting on my Daring Leadership Assessment, the one change I will make tomorrow is to actively increase communication and engagement within the international community to advocate for the rights of the families of the missing. I will focus on initiating conversations with key stakeholders in diplomatic and humanitarian sectors, urging them to prioritize the issue of the missing persons in Kosovo and to collaborate on increasing efforts for accountability and justice. By amplifying this critical issue in every discussion and working closely with other stakeholders, I hope to create stronger collaborations and ensure the pursuit of justice remains at the forefront of international efforts. Conclusion: The journey for truth is long, and the emotional toll on the families of the missing persons is immeasurable. Yet, together, with determination and unwavering commitment, we can bring light to their pain and help them move forward. I look forward to working alongside you all to make this a reality. Sincerely, Ambassador and Professor Muharrem Shabani Mission of the SKUN Foundation for the Recognition of Kosovo at the UN This version maintains the powerful call for collaboration and aligns the personal commitment with a tangible action that is both meaningful and impactful. Would you like to make any adjustments to this draft?

This course has opened my eyes to the importance of sustainability and the role that businesses can play in achieving the SDGs. It has also given me a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities that come with implementing sustainable practices in a business context.

I believe that sustainability is no longer just a "nice to have" but a business imperative. Companies that integrate sustainable principles into their operations will not only be contributing to a better future for all, but they will also be better positioned to remain a competitive and secure long-term success.

I am excited to take the knowledge and skills I have acquired from this course and apply them in my work life. I look forward to sharing my learnings with my colleagues, and collaborating to make our organization more sustainable.

Very detailed and at the same time very clear. A highly competent faculty with the capacity to transmit knowledge in a convenient and practical way. There are plenty of examples and case studies with a diverse range of sectors. There is also a global approach and at the same time reference to local examples from businesses in the school's local community. I highly recommend the course.

This MOOC is absolutely awesome with excellent instructors and comments from businesspersons identified with implementing in their respective fields the SDGs and targets. I really learned a lot and enjoyed every minute. I highly recommend this MOOC. Thanks Erasmus RSM and Coursera. I am now a hummingbird inspired to make a change in the world!

Extremely well built MOOC. The courses are progressive and always well illustrated. So many speakers, from so many different types of organizations, giving different perspectives.

I also appreciated the many links to various ressources.

I really recommand this MOOC to whoever wants to learn more about the SDGs and the challenges around them.

Highly recommended for anyone interested in learning about the SDGs and how you can be an ambassador of change. The learning material is varied and inspiring, with different speakers presenting real-life cases from a wide array of businesses and management disciplines. And be ready for a bit of a personal weekly challenge as well!

It was a great program through sustainable development goals. I learned from lessons, case studies, and activities not only the importance of setting new sustainable businesses, but also adjest the "old" one to sustainability by integrating SDGs. The course is well organize and let the student participate a lot.

Super interesting and well structured course. Provides great introductory info to the UN SDGs and how businesses can and are action on these goals already. Recommend for anyone who wants to learn about the SDGs or is looking to start or further their knowledge in sustainable development.

Very well structured, inspiring, and with relevant business examples to relate the concept of the 17 SDG's to business challenges and how to address them. Recommended to everyone who starts the journey and wants to contribute in one or another way, starting to engage in sustainability.

Well written course materials and structured and easygoing lectures. Suitable for any discipline. Even if I am a student of M.Sc in Sustainable Development at Uppsala University, I have enrolled this to add value to my CV and brush up my basic knowledge with utmost care and integration.

It was a complete package for this course on driving the business towards sustainable development goals. I am pleased by the content, presentations and the way it was conducted by the luminaries and professors, academicians and corporate bigwigs who were experts in respective domains.

SDG, MOOC inspired me to further contribute towards positive change. I learned a lot about the Sustainable Development Goals and how they can be implemented in various sectors. I am also inspired to engage in more partnerships and collaborations to work towards achieving the SDGs.

This course not only provided me theoretical knowledge on SDGs but also how SDGs are implemented in actual practice. On top of that, there were a few skills that I can use in my professional and daily life (e.g. systems thinking). I will definitely recommend this course.

This is a great course on SDG. Everyone who is featured and has worked to bring this course has been very generous in sharing knowledge and stories. It shows the true spirit of the SDGs and I'm very inspired and motivated to follow in their footsteps. Thank you.

I am so very grateful to be able to attend this fantastic course, full of great insights, concise information and practical knowledge. Thank you for this opportunity for me and other champions of positive change, you got us all charged up and well equipped!

Loved the content. Perfect mix of academic lecture and industry case studies. The weekly hummingbird challenges and other supplemental information was very diversified and interesting.

My first Coursera mooc and the bar of standards has been set very high.

A fantastic and much-needed course! Carefully prepared, well presented and supported by excellent reading materials, this course proposes a concrete blueprint and stimulating examples, inspiring us to pursue the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

A well structured MOOC to introduce to the existence and the importance of the SDG's and the impact it is poised to create for the life on earth when consciously adapted and followed by each individual as well as corporations and governments.

Really good overview of the Sustainable Development Goals. I enjoyed the extra resources and the apps and tools I was introduced to. Now that I have an idea of what the SDGs are, I can focus more directly on those compatible with my industry.

I am very happy to have the opportunity to learn new things about SDGs. I learn a lot and it's make me more aware about things around me. I like the type of learning here, super enjoyable and also the guest and the host super understandable.

I am from a developing country where has emission is double growing fast. I would like to concern "Developed or Developing countries should cut down CO2 now". We should account for Emission on capital per population, not the whole nation.