Field Course: Social Innovation Lab

Co-taugh with Prof. John Kim

This course provides students an opportunity to use the discipline of entrepreneurial management, innovative design thinking as well as business tools and techniques to address social innovation topics that attempt to improve the quality of life of low-income and poor individuals and households anywhere in the world (including USA). For example a past year’s team explored a potential business model to deliver nutritious and affordable groceries in poor neighborhoods. The course will also accept projects that attempt to solve a strategic problem for a client organization in the social sector. For example a past year’s team developed a national scaling strategy for an urban youth services organization. Topics on education, impact investing, financial technology, among others are all topics which previous teams have worked on.