Course Details

Social Innovation Practicum
SSIM-452-0
Previously Known as KPPI-452-0
1.0 CR
Elective
PASS / NO CREDIT
No
DESCRIPTION

This experiential lab course places students on teams to conduct hands-on consultative projects for social impact organizations, allowing students to apply management learnings and analytical expertise to the real challenges that leadership teams face as they operate and scale social impact endeavors within markets. The students who gain the most from this class are students interested in consulting, social innovation and leadership, social finance, and sustainability leadership. The hands-on consulting projects that student teams work on in this class demand that students apply their MBA learnings as well as their professional experience, intellect, and analytical skills to the real challenges that leadership teams face as they operate and scale social impact endeavors within markets. Each team’s project will be different and will require mastering new and cutting-edge frameworks for impact and sustainability leadership ranging from impact measurement and reporting to carbon and natural asset pricing, revenue and go-to-market strategies, stakeholder management, innovation for impact, and more. This class focuses on social innovation, impact finance, outcome measurement, sustainability strategy, models for scale, and root cause analysis. Deliverables will be robust, analytical, and professional-grade. Students will have the opportunity to express preferences among all potential projects.

TRACKS
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Pathway
Energy and Sustainability Pathway
Entrepreneurship Pathway
Social Impact Pathway - Innovation
SCHEDULE SUMMARY
Fall 2024
CH
EV

CH (Chicago)
EV (Evanston)
DayTime
Evening
Saturdays
Popup
PREREQUISITES
Negative Prerequisite:
All Students: KPPI-452-0