Teaching at the Intersection of Business and Climate Change
Gunther Glenk teaches courses at the intersection of business and climate change. His courses have been offered at a bachelor, master, and doctoral level. He has served as course instructor at the University of Mannheim, Stanford University, and the Technische Universität München. He is also serving as an advisor to doctoral candidates.
Recent Teaching
Rapid Decarbonization: Challenges and Opportunities for Business
offered at undergraduate level at the University of Mannheim
This course is aimed at bachelor students in business administration, economics and related disciplines. It provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities that companies face in the transition towards a decarbonized energy economy. This involves an introduction to the microeconomic theory of corporate decarbonization efforts as well as the review of recent developments in practice. Particular topics covered in this course include:
Carbon Emissions and Carbon Regulations
Corporate Decarbonization Initiatives
Competitive Analysis of Emerging Climate Technologies
Bringing Low-carbon Products and Production Processes to Market
Climate-tech Entrepreneurship and Project Finance
Seminar on Corporate Decarbonization
offered at graduate level at the University of Mannheim
This seminar examines and discusses the challenges and opportunities that companies face on their pathway towards net carbon emissions of zero. Such pathways hinge on the economic analysis of reducing corporate carbon emissions and the formulation of abatement strategies. Particular topics covered in this seminar include:
Carbon Pricing and Regulation: Theory and Implementation
Corporate Carbon Accounting and Reporting
Corporate Decarbonization Pledges and Pathways
Competitiveness of Clean Energy Technologies
The Emergence of Sustainable Transportation Services
Pathways for Industrial Decarbonization
Climate Risk in Finance and Investment
Climate-Tech Entrepreneurship
The analysis of these topics involves a review of the most current literature as well as the use of analytical and empirical research methods. As part of the seminar, participants will present and discuss the key findings of their analysis and write up their findings and conclusions in the form of a seminar paper.
Sustainable Energy Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminar
offered at graduate level at Stanford University
Moving towards sustainable energy systems and addressing climate change requires a transition of the energy sources used, as well as major market, technology, policy, and behavior changes. In this graduate seminar course, graduate students will present their ongoing research on sustainable energy to an audience of faculty and graduate students with a diversity of disciplinary perspectives. One of the key goals of this course is to bring together researchers working on issues related to sustainable energy.
Decarbonization Seminar
offered at PhD level at the University of Mannheim
This course is aimed at doctoral students at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences. The seminar hosts speakers from academia and industry to discuss latest advances and challenges associated with the transition towards a decarbonized energy economy. Topics covered include the economics and management of sustainability activities and clean energy technologies across all sectors of the economy with a particular focus on the energy sector, transportation services, and carbon-free manufacturing processes.
Seminar on Management Accounting
offered at graduate level at the University of Mannheim
This seminar examines topics in management accounting. These topics include:
Activity-Based Costing: Theory and Implementation
Life-Cycle Product Costing: Conceptual Development and Use in Practice
Internal Pricing in Multi-Segment Firms
Transfer Pricing in Multinational Firms: Managerial and Tax Considerations
Divisional Measures of Managerial Performance
Incentive Provisions for Pricing in Regulated Industries
Accounting for Sustainability Activities
The Balanced Scorecard: Theory and Practice
Participants of this course get acquainted with management accounting concepts in both theory and practice. The analysis of these concepts involves a comprehensive review of the accounting literature. As part of the seminar, participants will present and discuss the key findings of their analysis and write up their findings and conclusions in the form of a seminar paper.
Advanced Microeconomics
offered at PhD level at the University of Mannheim
The course is aimed at doctoral students in all fields of business administration. It provides an introduction to microeconomic theory on a graduate level, highlighting aspects which are of specific relevance for business research. The main topics covered include:
Theory of consumer choice under certainty and uncertainty
Theory of the firm, production cost and supply
Markets, equilibrium, welfare
Strategic behavior under complete and incomplete information
Incentives and asymmetric information
The objective of the course is to enable doctoral students in business to read and discuss economic theory and to equip them with the tools to formulate their own research based on theoretically grounded hypotheses.