Social Change Essentials: Methods, Money, and Partnerships (SSIM-957-5) Social Change Essentials: Methods, Money, and Partnerships (class formerly known as The Business of Social Change) -- How do business, philanthropic and investment practices yield real social results and progress? This course is designed to provide students with the skills and knowledge to influence and lead social impact in business and impact contexts. By the conclusion of this course, each student should have a strong foundation in social impact and social change, including approaches to funding impact, scaling programs and interventions, public- private partnerships, corporate engagement, impact investment decision-making, blended capital, and approaches to intentional impact. This course will serve students well in future experiences in corporate leadership, consulting, board and pro bono service, social impact leadership, social entrepreneurship and beyond.
Field Study (SSIM-498-0) Social Innovation Practicum (SSIM-452-0) Social Impact Practicum (formerly known as Social Innovation: Designing for Change) is an experiential lab course combining classroom learning with hands-on consultative projects for social impact organizations, allowing students to apply management learnings and analytical expertise to the real challenges that leadership teams face as they operate and scale social impact endeavors within markets. Students interested in consulting, social innovation and leadership, sustainability, and social finance will benefit from this class. Student teams will work on a real-life project with a company or nonprofit. For the fall of 2023, projects include clients engaged in circular economy, disability services, women's empowerment, regenerative agriculture, carbon offsets, and more. Project work spans from international expansion strategy to market and pricing analysis to go-to-market strategy, marketing and messaging, product development, and more. Deliverables will be robust, analytical, and professional-grade. Students will have the opportunity to express preferences among all potential projects.
Global Lab (INTL-615-0) Global Lab: Social Impact in the Americas (Puerto Rico). This spring quarter experiential learning course provides a hands-on opportunity for students to apply classroom knowledge to a real-world project for social impact. In the Global Lab course, teams of students will complete consulting projects for startups and nonprofits in Puerto Rico. The client (nonprofit or company) and student team work to scope and define the project, then the students engage in the research and analysis necessary to deliver on that project for the client and community. Students who enroll in this class will be required to attend at least one pre-term class and engage in a client kick-off meeting and project scoping during the winter quarter. We hope to travel over Memorial Day weekend for on-site presentations of final client project deliverables and outcomes. Kellogg will cover airfare and select days of lodging expenses for the on-site visit if we are able to travel. Students must have completed all core courses with the exception of OPNS430 which can be taken concurrently in the Spring quarter. Evening/weekend and EMBA program students who have fulfilled their core requirements are also eligible to apply to take the course.
Global Initiatives in Mgmt GIM (INTL-473-20) Spring Session
Global Initiatives in Management (GIM) (INTL-473-0) All FT GIM classes will hold a final, mandatory class session. Please refer to each class's syllabi for the date and time.
Global Initiatives in Management (GIM) is an international experiential learning course designed to provide students with an introduction to the unique business opportunities, management practices and market dynamics of a specific region or global industry. The course combines in-class lectures, reading discussions and case studies during the winter quarter with ten days of international field research over spring break. Immersed in the culture and language of their host countries, students will have the opportunity to meet with local business and government leaders, conduct interviews and collect data for their group research projects, and experience some of the unique social and cultural facets of the region. Final presentations and written research reports are due in spring quarter after completion of the overseas portion of the class. Each class section is taught by a faculty member with deep knowledge of the region or industry and supported by an advisor from the Kellogg staff who assists students in planning the field experience. Students are financially responsible for their travel costs, and financial aid is available to those who qualify.
Winter 2024: section 47, Tech Venture: India, is only available for students in the Evening & Weekend Programs