Elective Courses
Columbia MBA and EMBA students build on their desire to make a difference with innovative ideas and business skills gained through a variety of social enterprise elective courses. Through coursework and cocurricular activities, students learn directly from leading academics in the field, as well as the many practitioners of social enterprise who come to campus as adjunct professors, guest lecturers and panelists.
Instructors supplement lectures with a variety of teaching techniques that expose students to roles encountered by leaders and managers in the private, public and nonprofit sectors, including team projects, case studies, guest speakers and pro bono consulting projects.
One of the great strengths of the Social Enterprise Program is that it is an interdivisional concentration—many of its courses are drawn from or developed within other divisions of the School. In the online course selection guide and in the teaching schedule, students will find electives listed under such divisions as Business Economics, Finance, International Business, Management and Operations Management, as well as under Social Enterprise.
View the Social Enterprise Career / Course Map (pdf) which lists other recommended courses as well as the courses below, and links courses to social enterprise career areas.B8202 Modern Political Economy
Instructor: Ray Horton
B8299-006 The Private Sector and International Development
Instructor: Ray Fisman
B8299-007 Globalization and Markets: Reforming the International Economic Architecture
Instructor: Joseph Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald
B8299-011 Business in Society: Doing Well by Doing Good?
Instructor: Geoffrey Heal
B8811 Service Operations Management
Instructor: Medini Singh
B9301-01 Finance and Sustainability
Instructor: Bruce Usher
B9410-001 Business Innovations in International Development
Instructor: Antony Bugg-Levine
B9455-016 Social Entrepreneurship: A Global Perspective
Instructor: Pamela Hartigan
B9455-017 Financing Social Ventures: Risk Capital for Expansion
Instructor: Rick Larson
B9455-011 Social Entrepreneurship
Instructor: Catherine Clark
B8499-003 Board and Executive Management of Nonprofits
Instructor: Ed Henry
B8200-001 Strategic Philanthropy
Instructor: Melissa Berman
B9455-015 Education leadership consulting
Instructor: Amy Rosen
B9777-004 Entrepreneurship in Africa
Instructor: Murray Low
B9811-014 Healthcare Industry in the 21st Century
Instructor: Linda Green
B6690 Marketing art, culture and education
Instructor: Joseph Plummer
