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Wagner School of Public Service
PADM-GP 2310 Understanding Social Enterprise (Offered Fall '23):
This course is designed to help students learn how to launch and scale social enterprises. Using business as a force for good, social entrepreneurs implement innovative private sector approaches to solve social, cultural and/or environmental problems. Surviving start-up and scaling to maximize impact is an art, science and emotional journey, especially when attempted without investors. Statistics show that approximately 4% of small businesses surpass $1 million in revenues, while only 0.4% surpass $10 million. The course begins by exploring methods and motivations of Certified B Corporations and draws upon the real-life successes and challenges faced by social entrepreneurs. Students will complete several activities and projects to simulate the launching and scaling of their own social enterprises and should leave the course empowered with the tools, knowledge and depth of vulnerability involved with building a successful organization.
Wagner School of Public Service
PADM-GP 2145 Design Thinking:
The word "design" has traditionally been used to describe the visual aesthetics of objects such as books, websites, products, architecture, and fashion. Yet increasingly design as a discipline is expanding to include not just the shaping of artifacts but also the ways people interact with systems, services, and organizations. As the challenges and opportunities facing society grow more complex, and as stakeholders grow more diverse, an approach known as "design thinking" is playing a greater role in finding meaningful paths forward. Design thinking is an iterative problem-solving process of discovery, ideation, and experimentation that employs design-based techniques to gain insight and yield innovative solutions for virtually any type of organizational or business challenge, prominently including those within public service. In "Design Thinking: A Creative Approach to Problem Solving and Creating Impact," we will unpack each step of the design thinking process and become familiar with the design thinker's toolkit. Students will develop skills as ethnographers, visual thinkers, strategists, and storytellers through a hybrid of seminar discussions and collaborative projects. Over the course of seven weeks, students will directly apply what they have learned to public service and social entrepreneurial challenges about which they are passionate: they will untangle the complexities of related policy and explore innovative ways to create real impact.
Graduate School of Arts and Science
ECON-GA 3402 Colloquium On Market Institutions & Eco Procs:
Discussion of current research in the Austrian economics tradition. Themes treated include subjectivism, the market as dynamic process, and entrepreneurship. Ideas are applied to both micro and macro issues. Discusses papers written by students and by faculty from New York University and other universities.
Graduate School of Arts and Science
ECON-GA 1801 Indust Organization I:
Technological innovation, diffusion, research and development, firm behavior, market structure, and entry and exit of firms. Entrepreneurial choice. Schumpeterian competition.
Electronics Experiments Lab:
What Jason Wallach (Gallatin '20) Builds at the Prototyping Lab
Allure:
Interview with Founder of My Wellbeing, Alyssa Petersel (Silver ‘17, SLP ‘17)
VentureBeat:
Opentrons, Founded by NYU Alumnus, Raises $10 Million
Tandon School of Engineering
DM-GY 6053 Ideation & Prototyping:
In this class, the creative process will be investigated in order to generate ideas for art, design, technology, and business endeavors. The course will show how ideation, design research & thinking, and prototyping can inspire, inform, and bring depth to what one ultimately creates. Students will expand their arsenal of design research skills, learn how to think critically about their audience, content, form, and processes, as well as, understand the importance of utilizing more than one research and design strategy.
BostInno:
10 Reasons to Not Listen to VCs
Techstars:
The 7 Qualities of a Great Founding Team
