Social Entrepreneurship

(2.5 Credits)

The world today is facing multiple intersecting crises—environmental devastation, unprecedented economic inequality, deteriorating health outcomes, racial injustice, amongst others. Social entrepreneurship is the process by which effective, innovative and sustainable business solutions are pioneered to meet these and other social and environmental challenges. It aims to design businesses and leverage the tools of business to create meaningful and measurable impact in the world. This course is dedicated to exploring the depths of this rapidly evolving domain. It will explore definition, offer context into how it fits within broader economics and management frameworks, introduce high impact case examples and speakers, offer tools to identify social sector problems and create solutions, explore business designs, and examine methods to measure impact.