Social Enterprise 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 program—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 social enterprise 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

B8299-017 New Developments in Energy Markets
Instructor: Geoffrey Heal

B8620-001 Global Marketing Consulting for Social Enterprise
Instructor: Gita Johar

B8811 Service Operations Management
Instructor: Medini Singh

B9301-01 Finance and Sustainability
Instructor: Bruce Usher

B9301-120 Carbon Finance
Instructor: Bruce Usher

B9301-120 Sustainability and Investment Management
Instructor: Vinay Nair

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

B9410-001 The Nonprofit Sector & the City
Instructor: Douglas Bauer

B8200-001 Strategic Philanthropy
Instructor: Melissa Berman

B9455-015 Education leadership consulting
Instructors: Amy Rosen and Laura Smith

B9777-004 Private Equity & Entrepreneurship in Africa
Instructor: Murray Low

B9811-014 Healthcare Industry in the 21st Century
Instructor: Linda Green

B9877-004 The Business of Sustainability
Instructor: Garrett Van Ryzin

B9877-004 Sustainable Development and International Entrepreneurship
Instructor: Crist Inman

B9301-115 Project Finance
Instructor: Robert Dewing

B6690 Marketing The Arts, Culture and Education
Instructors: Joseph Plummer and Tahra Millan

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View the Social Enterprise Career / Course Map (pdf) to see the relationship between recommended courses and social enterprise careers