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 | Alexander Robert 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 | Nations, Politics, and Markets | 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 | Burcu Esmer |
| 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 | Chelsea Dyan Schein, Lauren Kaufmann, Alan Strudler, Amy J. Sepinwall |
| LGST 101* | Law and Social Values | Philip M Nichols, William S Laufer, Amanda Ward Shanor |
| 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 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 | Raphael Amit |
| 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 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 Fall 2021.
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 773/FNCE 730/REAL 730* | Urban Fiscal Policy | Fernando V. Ferreira |
| BEPP 789 | Nations, Politics, and Markets | Ayse Kaya Orloff |
| BEPP 805 | Risk Management | Deniz Selman |
| ENVS 669 / ENVS 660 | Corporate Sustainability Strategies | Gary Survis |
| FNCE 750* | Venture Capital and Finance of Innovation | Lucian Taylor |
| FNCE 751* | The Finance of Buyouts and Acquisitions | Burcu Esmer |
| 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 | Managing 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 | Douglas Present |
| INTS 741 | Leadership & Intercultural Learning | Regina Abrami, Mili Lozada Cerna |
| LGST 611* | Responsibility in Global Management | Thomas Donaldson |
| LGST 612* | Responsibility in Business | Christina Skinner, Kevin Werbach |
| 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: Israel & Jordan, Global Immersion Program: India | 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 | Raphael Amit |
| 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 | Institutes & Multinational Management | Witold Henisz |
| 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 Fall 2021.
