ENTR 350 - Social Entrepreneurship
Requirement Fulfillment: Serves as an elective course for the entrepreneurship major and as a requirement for the entrepreneurship minor.
Fulfils a requirement in Global Perspectives General Education Domain
Delivery: Lecture
Welcome to Social Entrepreneurship! This course offers an opportunity to explore how entrepreneurs and organizations can contribute to the resolution of societal challenges and problems, such as income inequality, climate change, and water scarcity. While these challenges pose grave threats to society, they therefore also pose opportunities, many of which offer the opportunity for organizations to make a profit while also doing good. We explore the various forms social enterprises might take, from non-profits to think tanks to traditional organizations, and discuss the myriad ways they can profitably contribute to the betterment of communities and even broader society.
The inherent tension between the desire to provide social benefit and the desire to become/remain profitable poses a unique challenge for people occupying social enterprises, as they blend multiple logics and navigate the demands of diverse, and sometimes oppositional, stakeholders. Through case discussions, discussions of academic journal articles, and ultimately a group project where you create a social enterprise of your own, we will navigate these tensions together and, hopefully, come up with some actionable ideas for how we can make the world a better place.
3 credits
Fall and Spring
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