The Sustainability track combines theory and practice. You attend practical courses like Sustainability in Economics and Business, where you learn about environmental protection, social equity, and economic resilience, with live case studies and hands-on experience. Meanwhile, courses like Applied Econometrics, Games and Strategy, and Experimental Economics provide you with a strong analytical foundation and the quantitative tools needed to translate sustainability goals into actionable corporate and policy solutions. 

Today’s employers—from global consultancies and NGOs to tech firms and governments—are actively seeking leaders who can back up sustainability goals with rigorous data. By grounding technical tools like econometrics and experimental design in real-world policy evaluation and corporate decision-making, this track gives you both the analytical rigor to model complex sustainability challenges and the ethical and strategic lens to lead change. 

What sets this track apart — and what makes it demanding — is the expectation that you move fluently between quantitative analysis and broader societal reasoning. In Applied Econometrics, you work with regression analysis, panel data and time series. In Experimental Economics, you design and execute your own experiment. But unlike more narrowly technical tracks, you are also expected to connect that analysis to complex, real-world sustainability challenges where the problems are messy and the trade-offs are real. The thesis crystallizes this: you independently design and lead a sustainability research project, which requires not just technical skill but genuine judgement about what questions matter today and why. For students used to clear-cut problems with single correct answers, that open-endedness is the steepest part of the learning curve.