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Social Impact at Kellogg aims to inspire and equip business leaders to create positive, significant and sustainable impact in the world.

The Sustainability: Social Impact & Responsible Leadership Course Pathway is designed for students who want to create positive social change across their careers. The pathway recognizes that social impact and responsible leadership will come throughout the career and will take many varied forms.

Faculty sponsors: David A. Matsa (Finance) and Klaus Weber (Management & Organizations).

1. Leadership Foundations & General Tools

General Tools
  • Social Change Essentials: Methods, Money, and Partnerships: SSIM-957-5
  • Quantifying Social Return: Tools for Impact, Corporate and Nonprofit Investments: SSIM-948-0
  • The Science and Strategy of Bias Reduction: MORS-964-5
Leadership Foundations
  • Ethics & Leadership: PACT-460-0
  • Managing Firms for Shareholders and Society: FINC-484-5
  • Beyond Diversity: The Fundamentals of Inclusive Leadership: MORS-462-5

2. Specialized Professional Toolkits

Impact Driven Organizations
  • Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector: SSIM-950-0
  • Board Governance of Non-Profit Organizations: SSIM-455-5
  • Operations for Social Impact: OPNS-951-0

The Entrepreneurship pathway >>

EXPERIENTIAL
Corporate Sustainability & Impact
  • Value Creation through Sustainability: Managing the Corporate Transformation: SSIM-938-0
  • Decision Making for Sustainable Business: SSIM-947-5
  • Corporate Social Innovation: SSIM-917-5

DEI Pathway >>

EXPERIENTIAL
Sustainable & Impact Finance

 

EXPERIENTIAL
Policy & Public Action

3. Specialized Areas of Impact

Education
Climate, Environment & Energy
Global Development
  • Entrepreneurship and Market Creation in Emerging Markets: ENTR-906-5
  • Strategic Challenges in Emerging Markets: STRT-466-0
  • GIM: Transforming Markets, Business, and Society: INTL-473-0
Health
  • Managing Health Care Services in a Value Based Setting: HCAK-951-5
  • Medical Technologies in Global Public Health: SSIM-673-5
  • Healthcare Strategy Consulting Lab: STRT-947-0

The Healthcare pathway >>

Last edited July 25, 2024. For any questions regarding this page, please email kellogg-registrar@kellogg.northwestern.edu.

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