ORB 381 - Managing Business as a Social Enterprise

Upper Division

Prerequisites
ORB 231 or instructor approval if a similar course has been taken.

This course addresses business formations, governance structures, sources of funding, impact reporting, and leadership approaches for firms with a triple bottom line mission. The private sector has the potential to solve much of what ails the world; reduction of poverty or decreasing pollution for example. The private sector has historically done so using the traditional business model while tacking on social and/or environmentally responsible strategies. The course will explore means other than the traditional business model by which business can locate its concerns for the common good squarely within its mission, strategies, operations and business structures. For example, Benefit Corporations, cooperatives, and social enterprises more broadly, which place a social and/or environmental mission on par with profit seeking goals, are becoming increasingly more prevalent.

Repeatable
No

Course credits: 3