Thought Leadership in the Classroom

The Social Enterprise Program, a concentration within the MBA program, offers a full range of elective courses, activities and initiatives that give students maximum exposure to the field. Students who concentrate in social enterprise can apply the business fundamentals learned in their core courses to electives in such specialized areas as social entrepreneurship, board and nonprofit management, corporate social responsibility and sustainability, political economy and international development.

Because there are no minimum course requirements, the Social Enterprise Program affords students great flexibility in designing their course of study. First year students concentrating in social enterprise may, with the approval of the Office of Student Affairs, defer one core course during their second term in order to take an additional elective course. They are therefore free to choose as many as two elective courses in their second term.

In addition, core courses incorporate the Individual, Business and Society curriculum, which was developed under the auspices of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics.

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"The Columbia MBA degree prepares the next generation of leaders with an understanding of the social and environmental context of decision making. Learning how to anticipate and respond to these issues is an essential part of the Columbia Business School experience."

— Glenn Hubbard
Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics