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.
“Business schools are critical social institutions not only because they help students realize their full potential as individuals, but also because they empower students to use their passions and talents to maximize their impact on society. Wharton is in the global vanguard of doing both.”
–Wharton Dean Geoff Garrett
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
| Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
| BEPP 201* | Public Finance & Policy | Deniz Selman |
| 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 | Stephen Golub |
| 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 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 | Philip M Nichols, Robert C Hughes |
| LGST 101* | Law and Social Values | Brian D Feinstein, David Zaring, William S Laufer |
| LGST 202 | Law of Corporate Management and Finance | Vincent S. J. Buccola |
| LGST 213 | Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship | Carolyn Hochstadter |
| LGST 215* | Environmental Management, Law, and Policy | Sarah E. Light |
| LGST 216* | Emerging Economies | Philip M. Nichols |
| LGST 220 | International Business Ethics | Brian Berkey |
| LGST 226 | Markets, Morality, and Capitalism | Robert Hughes |
| LGST 230 | Social Impact & Responsibility | Djordjija Petkoski |
| LGST 299 | Seminar in Law & Society: Capstone | Djordjija Petkoski |
| LGST 401* | Global Social Enterprise Consulting Project: A Wharton Undergraduate Capstone | Djordjija Petkoski |
| MGMT 208 | Globalization and International Political Economy | Mitchell A. Orenstein |
| MGMT 209 | Political and Social Environment of the Multinational Firm | Witold Henisz |
| MGMT 212* | Social Entrepreneurship | James D. Thompson |
| 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 |
| 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 390 | International Real Estate Development and Investment: Focus on Emerging Market Economies | Marja C Hoek-Smit |
*This course is available in Fall 2020.
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 | Stephen Golub |
| BEPP 805* | Risk Management | David A Cather |
| ENVS 669 / ENVS 660 | Corporate Sustainability Strategies | Gary Survis |
| FNCE 750* | Venture Capital and Finance of Innovation | Lucian Taylor |
| FNCE 754 | Impact Investing | Christopher Geczy |
| FNCE 812/LAW 609 | Finance, Economics, and Law of Financial Crises | Robert Inman, David Skeel |
| HCMG 845 | Managed Care and the Industrial Organization of Health Care | Bradley M. Fluegel, Atul Gupta |
| HCMG 854/LGST 811 | Legal Aspects of Health Care | Arnold J Rosoff, Robert Field |
| HCMG 866 | E-Health: Business Models and Impact | Mitesh S. Patel, John Glaser |
| HCMG 867 | Health Care Entrepreneurship | Gary Kurtzman, Eric Heil, Jeffrey 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 | Alan Strudler, Thomas Donaldson |
| LGST 612* | Responsibility in Business | Richard Shell, Christina P 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 653* | Field Application Project | Keith Weigelt |
| MGMT 656* | Global Immersion Program: Israel & Jordan | 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, James D Thompson |
| MGMT 960 | Institutes & Multinational Management | Witold Henisz |
| MKTG 733* | Marketing for Social Impact | Deborah Small |
| 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 890 | International Real Estate Development and Investment: Focus on Emerging Market Economies | Marja C Hoek-Smit |
*This course is available in Fall 2020.
