Entrepreneurship & Innovation
ENTR 3520: Impact Investing and Social Finance
Lecture - 4 credits
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- Explores impact investing, a transformative way to work with money to achieve a more inclusive and sustainable economy.
- Large investors are entering the world of impact investing, a rapidly emerging space where social and ecological effects of finance are championed over maximizing shareholder value.
- New investment vehicles such as social impact bonds and Web exchanges are changing the role of financing institutions to better serve the needs of low-income populations around the world.
- Applies interdisciplinary frameworks, tools, and cases, with hands-on teamwork and guest speakers, to critically examine the field.
- Offers students an opportunity to learn to develop and test concepts that integrate social responsibility, sustainability, and mutual accountability into current financial and economic systems while expanding social capital markets.
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