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Program Experience
Highlights and Key Outcomes
In Net-Zero Transformation, you will:
- Discover how to lead a strategic transition to sustainability in your organization
- Evaluate the risks and opportunities associated with implementing a climate pledge for firms in different sectors
- Understand global regulatory frameworks for net-zero goals and how they affect your business
- Learn to leverage tools for carbon measurement and reporting
- Grasp the principles of sustainable practices related to travel, transportation, buildings, construction, supply chains, and more
- Explore new revenue streams and business-model innovations aligned with your net-zero objectives
- Interact with top Wharton experts and share ideas with a select group of executives from around the world
Blended Online Program Structure
Participants will engage in weekly, three-hour, highly active live online sessions, interspersed with self-paced online video segments and activities to work through foundational material at their convenience. Content is delivered by award-winning faculty who are pioneering the academic research and leading the dialogue on the business transition to net zero.
The program prioritizes engagement and employs a host of instructional modalities to enhance the learning experience: in-class discussions, team collaboration, case studies, and interactive exercises.
- Live Online Discussion with Distinguished Wharton Faculty – This program offers the opportunity to directly engage with each of the program’s faculty.
- The Best of Both Worlds – Live sessions from Wharton’s cutting-edge Wave Classroom provide a powerful interactive experience, like an in-person session but from the comfort of your home or office. Self-paced individual and team discussions and engagement with your peers and with the faculty offer opportunities to personalize your learning and key take-home value.
Experience and Impact
Highly actionable and research-based, Net-Zero Transformation provides the roadmap you need to strategize, implement, measure, and report on your company’s reduction in its environmental footprint. Global executives will gain insights into sustainable practices around carbon measurement and management with a focus on key operational areas including travel and transportation, buildings and construction, supply chains, and more. You will also analyze regulatory trends, assessing which current or emerging climate policies are likely to impact your firm. Finally, you will explore avenues to create new revenue streams through net-zero and sustainability approaches and business-model innovation. A strong theme of change management is woven throughout the program as an essential tool to make a significant impact in your organization.
The program is led by Wharton and University of Pennsylvania experts in carbon neutrality as it intersects with supply chain, carbon accounting, regulations, transportation, facilities, and business-model reinvention. The program faculty are active contributors to the research advancement of decarbonization and of innovation in green technologies. Sessions will draw on the latest findings and practical applications from the prestigious Wharton Climate Center. Moreover, you will have the opportunity to exchange ideas with fellow participants: a select group of business leaders from around the world.
The familiar business saying “you can’t manage what you don’t measure” is very apropos when it comes to the Net-Zero Transformation program. After this program, participants will be able to approach sustainability initiatives analytically, with a level of rigor and understanding often lacking in actions following climate pledges. You will be empowered to truly forge your company’s path to environmental sustainability and carbon neutrality.
Session topics include:
- Sustainability in Your Core
- Measuring, Reporting, and Carbon Accounting
- A Closer Look at the Regulatory Framework
- Travel and Transportation: The Low-Emission Direction
- Supply Chain and Sustainability
- Site, Shelter, Setting: Net-Zero Building Design, Construction, and Operation
- Business-Model Innovation for Sustainability
Convince Your Supervisor
Here’s a justification letter you can edit and send to your supervisor to help you make the case for attending this Wharton program.
Due to our application review period, applications submitted after 12:00 p.m. ET on Friday for programs beginning the following Monday may not be processed in time to grant admission. Applicants will be contacted by a member of our Client Relations Team to discuss options for future programs and dates.
Who Should Attend
Net-Zero Transformation is designed for C-level and senior executives worldwide, particularly:
- Executives and senior managers from companies that have pledged (or are considering pledging) to achieve a net-zero target or are committing to sustainability
- Environmental-compliance officers
- Corporate-sustainability officers
- Operations and supply chain managers
- Facilities managers and building engineers
- Transportation and logistics managers
- Business strategists and innovation leaders
- Nonprofit and NGO leaders focused on environmental conservation and advocacy
- Government policymakers
Fluency in English, written and spoken, is required for participation in Wharton Executive Education programs unless otherwise indicated.
Group Enrollment
To further leverage the value and impact of this program, we encourage companies to send cross-functional teams of executives to Wharton. We offer group-enrollment benefits to companies sending four or more participants.
Faculty
Academic Director
Jeffrey A. Keswin Professor; Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions; Director, Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Operations management and operations strategy
William Braham, PhD, FAIASee Faculty Bio
Professor of Architecture; Director of the Master of Environmental Building Design and of the Center for Environmental Building + Design (CEBD), University of Pennsylvania
Mirko Heinle, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Professor of Accounting, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Theoretical research in financial and managerial accounting
Witold Henisz, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Vice Dean and Faculty Director, ESG Initiative; Deloitte & Touche Professor of Management in Honor of Russell E. Palmer, former Managing Partner
Research Interests: Political and social risk management; project management; ESG integration; stakeholder engagement
Serguei Netessine, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions; Senior Vice Dean for Innovation and Global Initiatives, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Business model innovation, operational excellence and entrepreneurship
Megan Ryerson, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Professor, City and Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design; Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence/machine learning, behavioral economics, disadvantaged populations, injury and violence
Arthur van Benthem, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy; Faculty Co-Director, Wharton Climate Center
Research Interests: Energy economics, environmental economics, public economics