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Wagner Tech:
WagnerTech fosters a vibrant community of students, faculty and professionals at NYU Wagner who are driven to leverage technology for innovation in public service. WagnerTech provides opportunities for skill-building, networking and connecting with the latest technologies in the field.
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Social Entrepreneurship Minor:
Students will take carefully-selected courses at Wagner and Stern that explore the concept of students as "changemakers," entrepreneurship, and the management practices, public policy implications, and social and economic consequences of the rise in social entrepreneurship domestically and internationally.
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Social Impact, Innovation, and Investment Specialization:
This specialization blends financial management, impact investment, operations, and policy to prepare students to develop entrepreneurial solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.
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EXEC-GP 4340 Digital Innovation Lab:
This course will help students gain the skills necessary to develop and refine a socially conscious digital innovation concept and bring it to fruition.
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EXEC-GP 2145 Design Thinking:
In this course, students will develop skills as ethnographers, visual thinkers, strategists, and storytellers through a hybrid of seminar discussions and collaborative projects. They will untangle the complexities of related policy and explore innovative ways to create real impact.
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UPADM-GP 801 Social Entrepreneurship: Financial and Budget Strategies:
The class will provide an introduction to the financial concepts, tools, and analytical thinking that integrates programmatic and strategic priorities which enable innovative ideas to start and grow to financially viable sustainable projects and organizations.
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UPADM-GP 267 Social Entrepreneurship Incubator & Practicum:
This course is designed for upper-class undergraduates who have a social innovation project, entrepreneurial business, or CSR idea to develop or implement. Also welcome to the course are students who would like to learn and practice success skills and employment strategies, and are willing to participate in class teams with other students who have project ideas. To bring the dynamic world of social innovation fully into the classroom,
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UPADM-GP 266 Advanced Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation:
Students will examine their use in producing social impact, explore their own engagement in designing new combinations of ideas as social entrepreneurs, and develop their own ideas for addressing a social problem of concern to them.
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UPADM-GP 265 Fundamentals of Social Entrepreneurship: Problem Solving and Innovation (Offered Fall '23):
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 both an art and a science, especially when attempted without outside investments. Statistics show that approximately 10% of small businesses surpass $1 million in revenues, while only 0.5% surpass $10 million. Fundamentals of Social Entrepreneurship will draw upon the real-life successes and challenges faced by the professor and other social entrepreneurs in structuring and scaling their enterprises. Students will read several articles, watch videos and complete group projects to experience the launching and scaling of their own social enterprises.
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UPADM-GP 264 Understanding Social Entrepreneurship:
This course investigates the different ways social entrepreneurs can make a difference here in the United States and around the world.
