Wharton’s broad and multifaceted curriculum will deepen your knowledge, expand your toolkit, and power your impact.
We have listed just some of the many social impact-related courses available to Penn and Wharton students. These listings are subject to change. Please review MyWharton for additional courses, as well as up-to-date section information, class times, and registration info.
Wharton’s undergraduate program also offers a secondary concentration in Social Impact & Responsibility, housed in the Legal Studies and Business Ethics department.
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
| Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
| ACCT 270* | Forensic Analytics | Daniel Taylor |
| BEPP 201* | Public Finance & Policy | Alex Rees-Jones |
| BEPP 202/FNCE 202 | Consumer Financial Decision Making | Jacqueline Wise |
| BEPP 207 | Economics for the Next 100 Years | Eduardo Azevedo |
| BEPP 214 | The Nonprofit Sector: Economic Challenges & Strategic Responses | Ashley Swanson |
| BEPP 220* | Behavioral Economics, Markets, and Public Policy | Judd Kessler |
| BEPP/FNCE/REAL 230 | Urban Fiscal Policy | Fernando V. Ferreira |
| BEPP 233* | Consumers, Firms and Markets in Developing Countries | Shing-Yi Wang |
| BEPP 261 | Risk Analysis And Environmental Management | Carolyn Kousky |
| BEPP/OIDD 263 | Environmental & Energy Economics and Policy | Arthur van Benthem |
| BEPP 289* | Economic Globalization: Policy, History and Contemporary Issues | Ayse Kaya Orloff |
| BEPP 305* | Risk Management | Deniz Selman |
| FNCE 215 | Urban Real Estate Economics | Susan M. Wachter |
| FNCE 250* | Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation | Sylvain Catherine |
| FNCE 251* | The Finance of Buyouts and Acquisitions | Erik P Gilje |
| FNCE 254* | Impact Investing | Christopher Geczy |
| HCMG 204* | Comparative Health Care Systems | Claudio Lucarelli |
| HCMG 212 | Healthcare Quality and Outcomes | Jeffrey Silber |
| HCMG 213 | Health Care Strategy & Management: The Business Of Health Care | Lawton R Burns |
| HCMG 391 | Health Care Entrepreneurship | Matthew Grennan |
| LGST 100* | Ethics & Social Responsibility | Nina Strohminger, Robert Hughes, Lauren Kaufmann, Brian Berkey |
| LGST 101* | Law and Social Values | Julian Jonker, Gwendolyn Gordon, David Zaring |
| LGST 202 | Law of Corporate Management and Finance | Vincent S. J. Buccola |
| LGST 215 | Environmental Management, Law, and Policy | Sarah E. Light |
| LGST 216 | Emerging Economies | Philip M. Nichols |
| LGST 218* | Diversity & the Law | Jose F. Anderson |
| LGST 220* | International Business Ethics | Brian Berkey |
| LGST 226* | Markets, Morality, and Capitalism | Robert Hughes |
| LGST 230* | Social Impact & Responsibility | Djordjija Petkoski |
| LGST 242 | Big Data, Big Responsibility | Mihir Kshirsagar |
| LGST 247 | Value of Values; Contemporary Ethical Issues in Business | Thomas Donaldson |
| LGST 299* | Climate and Environmental Leadership in Action: Building a Sustainable Future | Sarah Light |
| LGST 401 | Global Social Enterprise Consulting Project: A Wharton Undergraduate Capstone | Djordjija Petkoski |
| MGMT 117* | Global Growth of Emerging Firms | Natalie Carlson |
| MGMT 208* | Managing Globalization & Anti-Globalization | Mitchell A. Orenstein |
| MGMT 209* | Political and Social Environment of the Multinational Firm | Witold Henisz |
| MGMT 212* | Social Entrepreneurship | Valentina Assenova |
| MGMT 224 | Leading Diversity in Organizations | Stephanie J. Creary |
| MGMT 235 | Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Jacqueline Kirtley, David Hsu |
| MGMT 241* | Knowledge for Social Impact | Katherine Klein |
| MGMT 243* | Work and Technology: Choices and Outcomes | John Paul Macduffie |
| MGMT 246 | Social Innovation and Social Enterprise | John Kimberly |
| MGMT 264* | Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Management | Stephen Sammut |
| MGMT 399 | Service Learning Host Projects – Senior Capstone | Anne Greenhalgh, Keith Weigelt |
| MGMT 401* | Growing Social Impact | Tyler Wry |
| MKTG 237* | Introduction To Brain Science For Business | Michael Louis Platt |
| MKTG 266 | Marketing for Social Impact | Deborah Small |
| MKTG 277 | Marketing Strategy and Technology | Thomas Robertson |
| OIDD 255* | AI, Business, and Society | Prasanna Tambe |
| OIDD 490 / PSYC 490 | Science of Behavior Change | Angela Duckworth, Katherine Milkman |
| REAL 205 | Global Real Estate: Risk, Politics, and Culture | Maisy Wong |
| REAL 230 | Urban Fiscal Policy | Fernando Ferreira |
| REAL 390 | International Real Estate Comparisons | Marja C Hoek-Smit |
*This course is available in Spring 2022.
MBA COURSES
| Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
| BEPP 620* | Behavioral Economics, Markets, and Public Policy | Judd Kessler |
| BEPP 761/OIDD 761 | Risk Analysis and Environmental Management | Carolyn Kousky |
| BEPP/OIDD 763 | Energy Markets & Policy | Arthur van Benthem |
| BEPP 770* | Public Finance and Policy | Alex Rees-Jones |
| BEPP 773/FNCE 730/REAL 730 | Urban Fiscal Policy | Fernando V. Ferreira |
| BEPP 789* | Economic Globalization: Policy, History and Contemporary Issues | Ayse Kaya Orloff |
| BEPP 805* | Risk Management | Deniz Selman |
| ENVS 669 / ENVS 660 | Corporate Sustainability Strategies | Gary Survis |
| FNCE 739* | Behavioral Finance | Marina Niessner |
| FNCE 750* | Venture Capital and Finance of Innovation | Lucian Taylor |
| FNCE 751* | The Finance of Buyouts and Acquisitions | Erik Gilje |
| FNCE 754* | Impact Investing | Christopher Geczy |
| FNCE 812/LAW 609 | Finance, Economics, and Law of Financial Crises | Robert Inman, David Skeel |
| HCMG 845* | US Payer and Provider Strategy | Bradley M. Fluegel, Atul Gupta |
| HCMG 854/LGST 811 | Legal Aspects of Health Care | Arnold J Rosoff, Robert Field |
| HCMG 860* | Leading Health Care Organizations | Ingrid Nembhard |
| HCMG 866* | E-Health: Business Models and Impact | Mitesh S. Patel, John Glaser |
| HCMG 867* | Health Care Entrepreneurship | Gary J. Kurtzman, Jeffrey P Libson |
| HCMG 868* | Private Sector Development in Global Health Development | Stephen Sammut |
| HCMG 890* | Advanced Study Project: Management of Health Care Service Businesses | Ezekiel Emanuel, Heather Schofield |
| INTS 741 | Leadership & Intercultural Learning | Regina Abrami, Mili Lozada Cerna |
| LGST 611* | Responsibility in Global Management | Alan Strudler |
| LGST 612* | Responsibility in Business | Peter Conti-Brown, Ronald Sarachan |
| LGST 613* | Business, Social Responsibility and the Environment | Eric Orts |
| LGST 815 | Environmental Management, Law, and Policy | Sarah E. Light |
| LGST 820 | International Business Ethics | Brian Berkey |
| MGMT 624 | Leading Diversity in Organizations | Stephanie Creary |
| MGMT 653 | Field Application Project | Keith Weigelt |
| MGMT 656* | Global Immersion Program | Amy L. Miller |
| MGMT 671* | Executive Leadership | Stewart Friedman |
| MGMT 715 | Political and Social Environment of the Multinational Firm | Witold Henisz |
| MGMT 720* | Corporate Diplomacy | Witold Henisz |
| MGMT 802* | Change, Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Ethan Mollick |
| MGMT 804* | Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Management | Stephen Sammut |
| MGMT 809* | Private Equity in Emerging Markets | Peter L Tropper |
| MGMT 810 | Entrepreneurship and Social Wealth Creation | Ian MacMillan |
| MGMT 812* | Social Entrepreneurship | Valentina Assenova |
| MGMT 960* | Non-Market Strategy | Witold Henisz, Mary Hunter Mcdonnell, Aline Claire Gatignon |
| MKTG 733 | Marketing for Social Impact | Deborah Small |
| MKTG 737* | Introduction To Brain Science For Business | Michael Louis Platt |
| MKTG 777 | Marketing Strategy | George Day |
| MKTG 890/GCP | Advanced Study Project: Retail Ecosystem Action Learning Projects | Thomas Robertson |
| OIDD762/OPIM762 | Environmental Sustainability & Value Creation | Gary M Survis |
| REAL 705 | Global Real Estate: Risk, Politics, and Culture | Maisy Wong |
| REAL 730 | Urban Fiscal Policy | Fernando Ferreira |
| REAL 890 | International Real Estate Comparison | Marja C Hoek-Smit |
*This course is available in Spring 2022.