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Business and Impact Planning for Social Enterprises
- 5 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Starts on May 10, 2021
- Ends on June 24, 2021
Course details
Syllabus
How to describe key aspects of a social impact startup, such as impact opportunity, theory of change, and plans to scale
How to analyze the social ventures of your peers and predecessors and apply that analysis to your own work
Gain confidence in your ability to identify and address social and environmental challenges
Course assignments can be used as part of applications to social entrepreneurship programs such as MIT Solve
Prerequisite
No formal prerequisites. A basic awareness of business concepts is useful, and a project that you are working on is beneficial if not required.
Instructors
Anjali Sastry
Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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