Social Enterprise and Social Innovation

Social Enterprise and Social Innovation examines the diversity of economic activity taking place within and beyond the business world, while highlighting the enterprises and innovations that promote values like democratic governance, social equality, and ecological sustainability. Students explore case studies and histories of social enterprises and worker cooperatives, gain practical skills in business planning and accounting, and envision how our political-economic institutions, policies and technologies might be reconfigured to address emergent and longstanding social and environmental problems. Students pursuing this focus will be prepared to enter careers in purpose-driven business, entrepreneurship, and non-profit leadership, as well as graduate programs in fields like political economy, business history, and critical management studies.