Curriculum

New Course Announcement!

International Social Impact Strategies

Wagner Fall Classes on Social Innovation:

PADM-GP 2188 — The Business and Psychology of Social Entrepreneurship (4 credits)
Instructor: Lelon (see bio below)
Tuesday 6:45 PM – 8:35 PM
Prerequisite: CORE-GP 1020

Roll up your sleeves. This course is about addressing social problems and changing the world by using your signature strengths in the service of others. We will examine the ever-evolving theory and practice of social entrepreneurship around the globe, covering multiple change-making roles required for successful social entrepreneurship, including the visionary, the infrastructure engineer & manager, and the media & arts contributor. To this end, you and a small team of your peers will be invited to collaborate on a social enterprise business plan of your own design. The semester will progress as an informal laboratory where you will be required to use both sides of your brain observing, experimenting with, and helping shape what it means to be a social entrepreneur.

Our objectives will be to learn about the history, context and varied definitions of social entrepreneurship, to observe effective examples of it in action, and to decipher key success factors and benefits, as well as risks and strategies for mitigating them. In addition, you will be guided through a multi-phase process of self-exploration, social analysis, business strategy, organizational structure and constructive peer critique — all with the end goal of crafting a business plan for changing the world.

Instructor bio: Founder of leadership consulting firm, The You Business®, Elise Lelon advises C-suite executives and entrepreneurs during times of critical strategic transition in their careers and companies. Among her clients are Morgan Stanley, The International Stock Exchange and Sotheby’s International, and she has been a guest speaker at institutions like Harvard Business School, Columbia University and AVT Business School in Denmark. In addition to her corporate and individual consulting work, several years ago, Elise launched AWE, (The Association of Women Entrepreneurs & Executives), an organization committed to inspiring and supporting greatness in the businesses, leadership and lives of women. By 2012, AWE will have chapters in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Prior to founding The You Business® and AWE, Elise served as Managing Director at Bernstein Investment Research and Management in New York City. She began her finance career as a sell-side equity research salesperson at Sanford C. Bernstein, advising large institutional clients in the U.K. and continental Europe. Previously, Elise worked in a variety of capacities at General Electric and NBC, where she was trained as a Black Belt in Six Sigma. Before entering the business world, she conducted both clinical and research work with patients suffering from severe psychopathology at Massachusetts General and McLean Hospitals. Elise earned her B.A. in Psychology from Brown University, her Ed.M. in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard, and her MBA from Harvard Business School. She is currently writing a book on entrepreneurial wisdom and writes for The Huffington Post.

A Wagner Student Beginner’s Guide to Registering for Stern Classes

1.Check Stern Class Schedule. Be sure the desired sections are both available to non-Stern students and are open: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/Registrar/CourseInfo/CourseSchedule/index.htm

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2. Check Wagner Pre-Approved Stern Classes on the Wagner course website.  If the course is on there, use the pre-approved form: http://wagner.nyu.edu/students/registration/preapprovedStern.php

3. If the course is not pre-approved, you must received written approval from your faculty advisor and submit a different form: http://wagner.nyu.edu/students/registration/unapprovedStern.php

Make sure all information is accurate. Be as clear as possible about first choice classes and all required fields.

4. If the course requires pre-requisites, you must receive written approval from the Stern instructor.

5. Check that the course is not on the “Stern Closed Course” list from site above. If it is, Wagner students must wait two weeks before registering. For all updated dates, please visit: http://wagner.nyu.edu/courses/otherlistings.php

6. Stern classes are three credits instead of four. Wagner will waive the fourth credit at graduation and the Wagner student only pays for three credits of tuition.

Recommended Stern Courses:

-Managing Growing Companies

-Collaboration, Conflict and Negotiation

-Corporate Finance with Damodoran

-Authentic Leadership Development

-DBIs

-Managing Change

-Economic & Business History of the US

-Managing Financial Institutions with Professor Zicklin

-Global Markets & Normative Frameworks