MGMT 290Social Entrepreneurship
Management · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
(Formerly numbered 295F.) Exposes future change leaders to different business models for social impact and to fundamental opportunities and challenges of designing, funding, managing, and scaling enterprises with social mission. Through lectures, readings, case studies, speakers and research project, exploration of competitive advantages and limitations of different approaches to creating social impact across sectors—private/for profit, public, and nonprofit. Introduction of frameworks for understanding and analyzing problems facing society and cultivation of critical thinking skills to identify diverse ways to address those problems through sustainable programs and enterprises.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.