Social Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley
Social Entrepreneurship
Taught at UC Berkeley
Offered through the Haas School of Business
This course will explore various definitions, motivations, forms, and implementations of Social Entrepreneurship – the use of business skills to develop innovative for-profit and non-profit ventures that aim to achieve social, environmental, and financial impact on societal problems through their products, services and business practices.
The course activities and lessons will investigate and discuss applying entrepreneurial concepts to a variety of market failures such as food, education, health, environment, energy, labor, international development, etc. Through readings, discussion, and interaction with guest speakers, students will examine and critically evaluate current trends in social entrepreneurship and investigate skills needed by social entrepreneurs including the ability to recognize new opportunities, develop a winning strategy, raise capital, identify and mitigate risk, and build and manage effective organizations.
After completing this course, students will have an understanding of how social enterprises function as businesses, how and why entrepreneurs successfully work to blend often disparate goals; how vision and values embedded into organizational culture affect success, and how to manage, measure, and report on the success of social-minded ventures.
Taught at UC Berkeley
Offered through the Haas School of Business
This course will explore various definitions, motivations, forms, and implementations of Social Entrepreneurship – the use of business skills to develop innovative for-profit and non-profit ventures that aim to achieve social, environmental, and financial impact on societal problems through their products, services and business practices.
The course activities and lessons will investigate and discuss applying entrepreneurial concepts to a variety of market failures such as food, education, health, environment, energy, labor, international development, etc. Through readings, discussion, and interaction with guest speakers, students will examine and critically evaluate current trends in social entrepreneurship and investigate skills needed by social entrepreneurs including the ability to recognize new opportunities, develop a winning strategy, raise capital, identify and mitigate risk, and build and manage effective organizations.
After completing this course, students will have an understanding of how social enterprises function as businesses, how and why entrepreneurs successfully work to blend often disparate goals; how vision and values embedded into organizational culture affect success, and how to manage, measure, and report on the success of social-minded ventures.
