Social Impact, Innovation, and Investment Specialization
Overview
The Social Impact, Innovation, and Investment specialization blends financial management, impact investment, operations, and policy to prepare students to develop entrepreneurial solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. You will learn the key skills needed to create sustainable solutions to a variety of issues. Graduates will be prepared to enter the burgeoning social innovation sector as policy leaders, social entrepreneurs, impact investors, and nonprofit and for-profit managers.
This unique specialization trains you to be an agent of social change. By speaking both the business and the policy language, you’ll be able to innovate policy, products, services, delivery systems, enterprises, and investment approaches necessary to improve lives and solve major domestic and global challenges.
DEGREE CORE COURSES
Required Courses
Students complete the following courses:
PADM-GP. 2132 Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation By Design (offered in fall) OR PADM-GP 2310 Understanding Social Entrepreneurship (offered in spring only)
PADM-GP 4130 Financial Accounting (1.5 credits)
Students must also complete one course from each area below:
Financial Management
Impact Measurement & Investment Returns
Operations & Enterprise
Policy, Advocacy & Innovation
ELECTIVE COURSES
Students choose electives (10.5 credits) from a wide array of Wagner courses, and may want to focus on the areas below:
