Social Impact Courses at Wharton
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 Wharton SPIKE 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 214 | Nonprofit Sector: Economic Challenges And Strategic Responses | Ashley Swanson |
| BEPP 230 | Urban Fiscal Policy | Robert P. Inman |
| BEPP 261 | Risk Analysis And Environmental Management | Howard Kunreuther |
| BEPP201* | Introduction To Business Economics And Public Policy | Ellen Magenheim |
| FNCE 215 | Urban Real Estate Economics | Susan M. Wachter |
| FNCE254 | Impact Investing | Christopher Geczy |
| HCMG 204 | Comparative Health Care Systems | Patricia M. Danzon |
| HCMG 213* | Health Care Strategy & Management: The Business Of Health Care | John R. Kimberly |
| HCMG 391* | Health Care Entrepreneurship | Matthew Grennan |
| LGST 100* | Ethics & Social Responsibility | Amy Sepinwall, Nina Strohminger, Diana Robertson |
| LGST 101* | Law and Social Values | Gwendolyn Gordon, William Laufer, Charles Forer, Philip M. Nichols, David Zaring |
| LGST 230* | Social Impact & Responsibility | Gwendolyn Gordon |
| MGMT 212 / MGMT812* | Social Entreprenuership | Valentina Assenova |
| MGMT 241 | Knowledge for Social Impact | Katherine Klein |
| OIDD 490 / PSYC 490* | Science of Behavior Change | Angela Duckworth, Katherine Milkmana |
*This course is available in Fall 2018.
MBA COURSES
| Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
| BEPP 761/OPIM 761 | Risk Analysis and Environmental Management | Howard Kunreuther |
| BEPP 762 | Energy Markets & Policy | Arthur van Benthem |
| BEPP 773/FNCE 730/REAL 730 | Urban Fiscal Policy | Robert Inman |
| BEPP 789 | Nations, Politics, and Markets | Stephen Golub |
| BEPP 805* | Risk Management | Olivia Mitchell, Daniel Gottleib, Gregory Nini, Jeremy Tobacman, Jialan Wang |
| ENVS 669-660 | Corporate Sustainability Strategies | Gary Survis |
| FNCE 750* | Venture Capital and Finance of Innovation | Luke Taylor, David Wessels |
| FNCE 754 | Impact Investing | Christopher Geczy |
| HCMG 845 | Managed Care and the Industrial Organization of Health Care | Amanda Starc, Brad Fluegel |
| HCMG 854/LGST 811 | Legal Aspects of Health Care | Arnold J Rosoff, Robert Field |
| HCMG 866 | E-Health: Business Models and Impact | John Glaser, Jonathan Kolstad |
| HCMG 867 | Health Care Entrepreneurship | Jeffery Libson, Gary Kurtzman |
| HCMG 868 | Private Sector Development in Global Health Development | Stephan Sammut |
| HCMG 890* | ASP: Management of Health Care Service Businesses | Mark Pauly |
| INTS 741* | Leadership & Intercultural Learning | Regina Abrami, Mili Lozada Cerna |
| LGST 611* | Responsibility in Global Management | Djordjija Petkoski, Mark Schwartz,Thoman Donaldson, Ruth Aguiler |
| LGST 612* | Responsibility in Professional Services | G. Richard Shell, David Zaring, Paul Roth, Alan Strudler, Eric Orts |
| LGST 815 | Environmental Management: Law & Policy | Sarah Light |
| LGST 820* | International Business Ethics | Matthew Lister, Diana Robertson |
| MGMT 653* | Field Application Project | Keith Weigelt |
| MGMT 656* | Global Immersion Program – Israel & Turkey; Southeast Asia; India | Adrian Tschoegl |
| MGMT 671* | Executive Leadership | Stewart Friedman |
| MGMT 715* | Political and Social Environment of the Multinational Firm | Witold Henisz |
| MGMT 802* | Change, Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Ian MacMillan |
| MGMT 804* | Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Management | Xu Han, Stephan Sammut |
| MGMT 809 | Private Equity in Emerging Markets | Stephen Sammut |
| MGMT 810 | Entrepreneurship and Social Wealth Creation | Ian MacMillan |
| MGMT 960 | Institutes & Multinational Management | Witold Henisz |
| MKTG 733 | Marketing for Social Impact | Deborah Small |
| MKTG 890/GCP* | Global Consulting Practicum | |
| OIDD762/OPIM762* | Environmental Sustainability & Value Creation | Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Carolyn Kousky Carolyn |
*This course is available in Fall 2018.