Social Entrepreneurship

• MGMT90165
• Contact Hours: 36 hours (one three-hour seminar per week)
  Total Time Commitment: Approximately 2.5 hours of personal study per hour of class time is required to achieve a satisfactory level of performance.
• 12.50

This subject explores how business insights can be used to solve social and environmental problems. The subject focuses particularly upon the start-up, social enterprise business model, where social entrepreneurs apply innovative, market-based strategies to solve social or environmental problems. A social enterprise is a business model that understands the critical role of economic sustainability, yet has the creation of social/environmental benefits as a primary or equal goal to that of profitability. The subject first explores the background of traditional attempts to solve social and environmental problems, before then addressing the social enterprise business model and the complex... -- Course Website

Prerequisites: Completion of a minimum of 50 points of study prior to the commencement of MGMT90165 Social Entrepreneurship.