We may earn an affiliate commission when you visit our partners.
Course image
Mauro Guillén, Philip Nichols, Katherine Klein, Christopher Geczy, James D. Thompson, Ian "Mac" MacMillan, and Mauro Guillen

You’re not just interested in making money. You’re interested in making a difference in the world too. Set your career and your business on the road to success by learning evidence-based strategies to achieve sustainable social impact: profits with purpose. This specialization was designed to give you the tools and strategies you need to create measurable social impact around the world – whether your impact goal is to create jobs, to reduce malnutrition, or to increase access to environmentally-friendly and affordable housing, or to make a positive difference in some other way. In these four courses taught by acclaimed Wharton professors, you’ll learn how to apply effective business strategies to real-world problems through a deep understanding of the global practices and trends shaping the world today. By the end of this Specialization, you’ll be able to:

Read more

You’re not just interested in making money. You’re interested in making a difference in the world too. Set your career and your business on the road to success by learning evidence-based strategies to achieve sustainable social impact: profits with purpose. This specialization was designed to give you the tools and strategies you need to create measurable social impact around the world – whether your impact goal is to create jobs, to reduce malnutrition, or to increase access to environmentally-friendly and affordable housing, or to make a positive difference in some other way. In these four courses taught by acclaimed Wharton professors, you’ll learn how to apply effective business strategies to real-world problems through a deep understanding of the global practices and trends shaping the world today. By the end of this Specialization, you’ll be able to:

● Lead, invest and make business decisions for social impact

● Analyze information about global trends to make more informed strategic business decisions

● Understand the role of corruption in societies so you can make better business decisions

● Develop, launch, test, and scale entrepreneurship projects which have high-potential of significant positive social impact

Enroll now

Share

Help others find Specialization from Coursera by sharing it with your friends and followers:

What's inside

Four courses

Global Trends for Business and Society

In this course, you'll learn to analyze rapidly changing global trends and their effects on consumer and labor markets, financial systems, and geopolitical relationships. Through real-world case studies, you'll examine how changes within one society affect others.

Corruption

(0 hours)
You can't understand the world today without understanding corruption. Every day, we see high-level government officials resigning, governments changing, and hundreds of thousands of people protesting corruption. This course teaches you about corruption, its causes, effects, and how to control it. We'll be talking about this from a global perspective using examples from all over the world.

Social Entrepreneurship

How do we create innovative and effective solutions to social problems around the world? This course teaches individuals and organizations how to identify and bring about transformative societal change. Professors Jim Thompson and Ian “Mac” MacMillan help you develop a strategy and framework for your social enterprise based on their years of experience teaching social entrepreneurship and advising entrepreneurs.

Business Strategies for Social Impact

When is it good business to invest for social good? This course introduces the fundamentals of impact investing, and developing a business strategy that drives social impact. You’ll learn how to become a leader who cultivates purpose and inspires change, measure societal impact through evidence-based models, and invest in ventures effectively and meaningfully.

Save this collection

Save Business Strategies for A Better World to your list so you can find it easily later:
Save
Our mission

OpenCourser helps millions of learners each year. People visit us to learn workspace skills, ace their exams, and nurture their curiosity.

Our extensive catalog contains over 50,000 courses and twice as many books. Browse by search, by topic, or even by career interests. We'll match you to the right resources quickly.

Find this site helpful? Tell a friend about us.

Affiliate disclosure

We're supported by our community of learners. When you purchase or subscribe to courses and programs or purchase books, we may earn a commission from our partners.

Your purchases help us maintain our catalog and keep our servers humming without ads.

Thank you for supporting OpenCourser.

© 2016 - 2024 OpenCourser