PADM-GP 4321 Operating Social Enterprises: This course will provide a comprehensive overview and step by step approach to the most critical aspects of operating social enterprises. This course will put students in the shoes of the social entrepreneur, social enterprise or operations manager, using detailed examples and activities from a real-world social enterprise, as well as best practices from targeted case studies addressing key course topics. For this semester, the course will feature the Professor’s experience with building and operating a social enterprise in the peanut agricultural value chain in Haiti. Student practice and assignments will be informed by actual datasets and mini-case examples from this social enterprise.

MHA-GP 4833 Entrepreneurship for Healthcare Organizations: This course is for current and future healthcare innovators interested in learning how to exploit gaps and opportunities in the evolving healthcare industry and launch meaningful, valuable companies as measured by customers and investors. It provides innovators with the essential steps needed to take their idea from concept to reality. By using real cases to demonstrate the various paths taken by others, students will not only understand how to start up a company, but they will gain valuable insights into what it takes to succeed with investors, how to build a customer pipeline, and how to avoid pitfalls that can derail a company.

PADM-GP 2249 Scaling Social Enterprises in the Amazon: In Spring 2021, PADM-GP 2249 Scaling Social Enterprises (3 credits) will be a virtual course abroad in the Amazon. In this course, students will be placed in teams and work online alongside students from local universities to investigate the achievements, challenges, and growth opportunities faced by social enterprises devoted to the food sector in the region. The course culminates with the online students teams authoring a business case on their assigned social enterprise.

PADM-GP 2311 Social Impact Investment: This course provides an introduction to the impact investment landscape, the evolution of impact investment as an asset class and the opportunities and challenges for investors seeking meaningful impact investment vehicles. The course will also teach the process by which an investor performs financial due diligence on a social enterprise to render a responsible investment decision. Students will learn the entire impact investment process from deal sourcing to investment structuring to monitoring financial and social returns.

UPADM-GP 221 The Meaning of Leadership: The Meaning of Leadership will prepare you to practice effective leadership and teamwork in a variety of contexts—business, politics, community organizing, entrepreneurship, sports, teaching, sales, coaching, etc—without relying on authority, status, hierarchy, or other external conditions. You will learn to create more meaning, value, importance, and purpose in your teammates, work, and professional relationships. As a result, your teams will accomplish more with greater satisfaction. Your teammates will feel inspired and will want to work with you again.

PADM-GP 4315 Advanced Financial and Impact Modeling for Nonprofits and Social Enterprises: Increasingly, as the field of impact investing develops worldwide, leaders in the social field are adopting selected tools from their counterparts in the private sector. One of the most widely used and useful tools is the spreadsheet-based, projection model of an individual enterprise. This course focuses on modeling tools used by nonprofit organizations, social entrepreneurs and other practitioners to develop business strategies and funding approaches, including market-based funding, to scale their work.

PADM-GP 2413 Strategic Philanthropy: This course will explore the fault lines within the field of philanthropy and prepare students to effectively leverage resources for their organizations. The course will examine different approaches to grantmaking including: social entrepreneurship, effective altruism, venture philanthropy, social justice grantmaking, and strategic philanthropy. Students will learn the differences across these conceptual frameworks and understand how they influence the ways in which foundations establish goals, develop strategies, evaluate grantees, and determine grant awards.

PADM-GP 2312 Financial Management of the Social Enterprise: Managing Financial & Social Returns: This course will explore best and evolving practices in the financial management and impact measurement of social enterprises. The class will be taught from the perspective of the social entrepreneur and social enterprise manager and introduce cases to assess financial challenges, fiscal performance and financing strategy of pioneering firms with a social mission. We will explore trends, successes and failures in managing enterprises to achieve both financial and social returns.

PADM-GP 2125 Foundations of Nonprofit Management: Examination of the role of the nonprofit sector in contemporary society and the practical concerns of management. Historical, descriptive, and theoretical issues relevant to the sector are explored. Special attention is paid to the changing relationships between public, for-profit, and nonprofit organizations.

EXEC-GP 2413 Strategic Philanthropy: This course will explore the fault lines within the field of philanthropy and prepare students to effectively leverage resources for their organizations. The course will examine different approaches to grantmaking including: social entrepreneurship, effective altruism, venture philanthropy, social justice grantmaking, and strategic philanthropy. Students will learn the differences across these conceptual frameworks and understand how they influence the ways in which foundations establish goals, develop strategies, evaluate grantees, and determine grant awards. By exploring both the conceptual and pragmatic dimensions of across grantmaking frameworks, students will understand the tensions and debates within the philanthropic sector and be well prepared to identify those foundations most likely to support their work.