Academic Catalog 2019-20

MBA 5444 Social Enterprise for Sustainable Development

Focuses on Social Enterprise, an organizational model that recognizes the global need to improve human and environmental conditions through business and organizations, and its role in sustainable economic development. Students will investigate social impacts of and on enterprises, their consequences, and future alternatives. Money systems, globalization, economic history, and community based cooperative models are explored to support students’ empowerment for economic choices, career and social change. Within this context students will also study and evaluate topics such as bottom-of-the-pyramid approaches, the millennium development project, human scale development, and development economics.

Credits

3.00 units