Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship

Catalog description

This course introduces students to social entrepreneurship and the related set of social enterprises that aspire to channel both market forces and entrepreneurial energies to achieve sustainable social good. The course draws upon case studies that exemplify the ways in which entrepreneurial innovators from around the world are devising and executing solutions to some of the world’s most intractable social problems. Social entrepreneurship will be studied in relation to a set of related socially productive enterprises such as micro-finance, social business and corporate social responsibility. The course will include both visiting speakers and fieldwork that will expose students directly to successful practitioners and the organizations that support them and that they build.