MIM 541 Global Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship

This introductory course will apply the concepts of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise as a for-profit or a not-for-profit business model. It examines a range of ownership and market orientations and the role of stakeholder engagement. Students will examine social intrapreneurships within established companies and conduct real world research projects with social entrepreneurs. Working with a client company, they will investigate a pressing business problem and provide recommendations; alternatively students will develop a mini business plan for a new social venture and acquire techniques and roadmaps for identifying, analyzing and developing opportunities for market-based solutions to social problems.