Columbia MBA and EMBA students build on their desire to make a difference with innovative ideas and business skills gained through a variety of social enterprise elective courses. Through coursework and cocurricular activities, students learn directly from leading academics in the field, as well as the many practitioners of social enterprise who come to campus as adjunct professors, guest lecturers, and panelists.
Instructors supplement lectures with a variety of teaching techniques that expose students to roles encountered by leaders and managers in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, including team projects, case studies, guest speakers, and pro bono consulting projects.
One of the great strengths of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise is that it is an interdivisional program—many of its courses are drawn from or developed within other divisions of the School. In the online course selection guide and in the teaching schedule, students will find electives listed under such divisions as Business Economics, Finance, International Business, Management, Marketing, and Operations, as well as under Social Enterprise.
Select courses may also be open for Columbia graduate and undergraduate seniors. For more information, please see the cross-registration page, which includes an online application link.
View the Social Enterprise Career & Course Map (pdf) which lists other recommended courses as well as the social enterprise courses below, and links courses to social enterprise career areas.
B8581 Modern Political Economy (MBA and EMBA)
Instructors: Ray Horton, Glenn Hubbard, and Tano Santos
B8585 Bridging the American Divide (2 sections)
Instructors: Todd Jick and Bruce Usher
B8584 REAP (ReEntry Acceleration Program): Reforming Mass Incarceration and the Role of Business
Instructor: Damon Phillips
B8580 REAP (ReEntry Acceleration Program) Immersion
Instructors: Sandra Navalli and Damon Phillips
B7223 Globalization and Markets and the Changing Economic Landscape (EMBA)
Instructors: Joseph Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald
B8214 Business in Society: Doing Well by Doing Good?
Instructor: Geoffrey Heal
B8423 Investor Influence on Corporate Sustainability
Instructor: John Wilson
B8219 New Developments in Energy Markets
Instructor: Geoffrey Heal
B8448 The Business Of Climate Change: Investing And Managing In A Changing Environment
Instructors: Patrick Bolton and Geoffrey Heal
B8107 Service Operations Management
Instructor: Medini Singh
B8349 Finance and Sustainability
Instructor: Bruce Usher
B8363 Climate Finance
Instructor: Bruce Usher
B8355 Impact Investing Seminar
Instructor: Bruce Usher
B8767 Investing in Social Ventures
Instructor: Bruce Usher
B7360 Impacting Investing (EMBA)
Instructor: John Walker
B7557 Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century (EMBA)
Instructor: Georgia Levenson Keohane
B8526 Launching Social Ventures
Instructors: William O'Farrell and Julius Mokrauer
B8527 Social Venture Incubator
Instructor: Joy Fairbanks (fall 2021)
B8544 The Nonprofit Sector & the City
Instructor: Douglas Bauer
B8543 Effective Philanthropy in Urban Communities
Instructor: Douglas Bauer
B8573 Global Philanthropy
Instructor: Melissa Berman
B8545 High Performing Nonprofits
Instructor: Amy Houston
B8558 Education Leadership
Instructor: Erin McMahon
B8547 Public-Sector Structural Reform in K-12 Education
Instructor: James Liebman
B8458 Seminar In Wealth Management: Investing For Family Offices, Endowments And Foundations
Instructors: Kristin Gilbertson and Andrew Gundlach
B8468 ESG Equity Investing
Instructor: Mark Zurack
B8428 Social Impact Real Estate
Instructor: Blair Smith
B8118 Transforming the Delivery of Healthcare Services
Instructor: Ashley Swanson
B8362 Project Finance
Instructor: Robert Dewing
B8452 International Emerging Markets Project Finance
Instructor: Paul Clifford
B8635 Marketing The Arts, Culture, and Education
Instructor: Joseph Plummer
