Special Topics (395-0-3)

Topic

Social Impact

Instructors

Kate Malone Jackson

Meeting Info

Ford ITW Auditorium 1350: Tues, Thurs 12:30PM - 1:50PM

Overview of class

This course provides students with the entrepreneurial tools and mindset to develop innovative solutions to social and environmental challenges.

In ENTREP 395 Social Impact, we will strive to answer: "What is my responsibility to my campus, my community, and the world? What social problems do I care about? How do I mobilize the resources to bring about positive social change? What are key factors, methods, principles, and mindsets required to create a social venture with impact?"

Students will learn to integrate knowledge from functional areas of business and entrepreneurship and apply those skills to solve a problem within an established social enterprise. Students will gain experience working in consulting teams; designing, implementing, and evaluating solutions to social problems; decision making under extreme uncertainty; methods for influencing and driving donor behavior; mission-driven use of technology to strategically amplify a social message, expand its reach, and enhance its impact; strategies for building, scaling, and leading a social venture; and building, structuring, and managing a high-impact board. Students will also have the opportunity to earn a certificate in Collaborative Changemaking from Ashoka.

By the end of this course, students will possess a deeper understanding of social entrepreneurship and new social venture creation, culminating in a professional presentation that showcases students' mastery. This course is for students seeking to make a positive difference and a lasting impact on campus, in their community, and in the world. It is designed to help you become the type of leader our world needs.

"You must never doubt your ability to achieve anything, overcome anything, and inspire everything, because the truth is, there are no superheroes. There is just us, and too often we are the ones that we keep waiting for." - Shiza Sahid, co-founder of the Malala Fund

Class Materials (Required)

Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great by Jim Collins.

ISBN: 978-0977326402