Social entrepreneurship is an innovative, growing, and rapidly evolving field in business that tackles social and environmental challenges through business perspectives and methods.
Social entrepreneurs are distinctive in their focus on a social mission as the primary, driving force of their organization. Traditional business performance measures – such as growth and profit – are relevant and important to social entrepreneurs, but not as standalone outcomes; rather, the value of growth and profit is manifested in the organization’s ability to achieve its social mission more quickly and effectively.
Social entrepreneurs see opportunity in the blurring of the traditionally separate roles of governments, non-governmental organizations, and companies, and social ventures can take a wide variety of forms ranging from non-profit to for-profit – and countless innovative hybrids in between.
COMM 485 is an applied course in which students will work with a real social enterprise. Classes will utilize lectures, selected case studies, relevant readings, field study, and discussions to explore the unique challenges faced by social entrepreneurs.
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Welcome to COMM485/COMR485 ~ Social Entrepreneurship. Classes will take place on Mondays & Wednesdays from 10-11:30am PST in the Sauder Learning Labs DLAM 009.