MBA CONCENTRATION
Social Impact Management
A GROWING NUMBER OF CORPORATIONS ARE SEEKING to improve their social and environmental impact, while meeting their economic bottom line. The Social Impact Management concentration will prepare you to identify opportunities for improving social impact and to lead successful social impact initiatives.
Our core MBA curriculum will offer you many of the tools you need: you will learn to lead change in Leadership and Organizational Behavior, to understand the potential for collaboration between the for-profit, non-profit and public sectors in Social Policy Frameworks, to further develop your own perspective on social justice in Social Justice, Management and Policy, to develop worker capabilities and foster worker well-being in Human Resource Management, and to evaluate social outcomes in Evaluation for Managers.
Beyond the core MBA curriculum, you will explore new forms of corporate social responsibility in Corporations and Communities and will learn to launch new programs and enterprises in Social Entrepreneurship. To build additional expertise and tools for effective social impact management, you can choose from a wide array of elective courses offered at the Heller School and the International Business School at Brandeis, from Fundraising and Development to Environmental Impact Assessment to Operational Risk Management.
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COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Students in the Social Impact Management concentration take the full spectrum of MBA core courses (50 credits) and can choose from all available management and policy electives (6 credits). In addition, students take the following specialized courses (6 credits):
- BUS277f, Corporations and Communities
(2 credits) - HS228a, Social Entrepreneurship (4 credits)
Students also must select additional courses from the following list in consultation with a faculty advisor (6 credits):
- HS 225a, Fundraising and Development
(4 credits) - HS 256f, Community Building for Managers
(2 credits) - HS264f, Principles of Ecology for Development Planners (2 credits)
- HS272f, Creating Microfinance Institutions and Partnerships (2 credits)
- HS282f, Environmental Impact Assessment
(2 credits) - HS283f, Gender and Development (2 credits)
- HS285f, Rights-Based Approach to Development (2 credits)
- HS534b, Assets and Social Policy (4 credits)
- BUS231a, Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Plans) (4 credits)
- BUS273f, Supply Chain Management (2 credits)
- BUS275f, Transnational Negotiations (2 credits)
- BUS276a, Business Dynamics (4 credits)
- BUS278f, Corporate Governance (2 credits)
- BUS280f, Operational Risk Management
(2 credits)
The Social Impact Management concentration also requires successful completion of a Team Consulting Project (TCP) in which students consult with an organization on the assessment and improvement of its social and/or environmental impact.