Berkeley Changemaker: Ethical and Effective Entrepreneurship in High Tech
This course emphasizes the three Berkeley Changemaker pillars of critical thinking, effective communication, and productive collaboration. It combines critical examination of entrepreneurial challenges with strategic, ethical, and leadership theories. It develops verbal and collaborative leadership skills, through flipped classroom and intense case discussions, a team project, and a formal final presentation of the project. The case discussions in particular will develop effective listening, real-time analysis, and verbal leadership skills. The project will challenge you to analyze a current or historical ethical challenge in a high technology industry, or analyze the ethical implications of your own entrepreneurial plans.
Topics
- Students who fully engage with this class will strengthen their in-the-moment abilities to listen, learn, analyze, and convince. They will size up high tech business and entrepreneurial opportunities with new perspectives, both strategic and ethical. They will gain practice in applying strategic and ethical frameworks to entrepreneurship and business decisions in high technology. They will learn how to understand and build upon criticism in real-time, and lead discussions on contentious issues towards productive, inclusive, and mutually beneficial outcomes. They will become an entrepreneur who not only sees how innovation can solve society’s problems, but can furthermore convince and lead others in accomplishing and implementing a solution.
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027