BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

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FIELD OVERVIEW
Business lends itself to universal application around the globe and in innumerable fields. Combining practical business acumen with social/cultural knowledge can open new possibilities to create capital, jobs, and communal benefits. Microenterprises, social ventures, microcredit lending, impact investing, and industry-specific applications (see Mr.Brito bio below) can greatly enhance your Accounting, Business Management, Finance, or Information Systems degree. Experts in this field turn their skills into tools whereby businesses and customers increase their profits and quality of life.

MODEL IN THE FIELD

After started a successful mini-gold business in Mexico where hed volunteered teach school years earlier, Ben Powell began requiring his employees give service back to the community. After business school, Ben formed Agora-a kind BEN POWELL of venture capital fund providing growth capital to mid-sized firms. They also provide educational resources to new social enterprises and generally encourage social entrepreneurship through free speed consulting workshops all over Nicaragua.

Bus M 371R: Social Entrepreneurship Lecture Series Bus M 490R: Introduction to Microenterprise Bus M 372: Basic Entrepreneurial Skill PMGT 623: Nonprofit Structure and Finance PMGT 651: Nonprofit Management Note: Undergrads are allowed to take graduate level courses with professors preapproval: MBA 692: Creating and Managing Social Ventures MBA 632: Social Entrepreneurship OB 490R: Microenterprise Development MBA 688: Corporate Social Innovation MBA 693R: Corporate Social Innovation

CLASSES

ON-CAMPUS ORGANIZATIONS
Grantwell SSE (Students for Social Entrepreneurship) SID (Students for International Development) NMSA (Nonprofit Management Student Association) Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance

TEDxBYU Peery Film Festival Social Venture Competition Innovation in Social Entrepreneurship Case Competition

COMPETITIONS/CONFERENCES

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PROFESSORS
Steve Gibson (ACE) Warner Woodworth (HELP International) Todd Manwaring (Ballard Center Director) Joan Dixon (Ballard Center) Paul Godfrey (Europe Business Study Abroad) Aaron Miller (Grantwell/Social Venture Academy) Brad Harris (NMSA)

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GRADUATE PROGRAMS
Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship (Sad Business School-Oxford) Social Enterprise Initiative (Harvard Business School) Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (Fuqua School of Business-Duke) Center for Social Innovation (Stanford Graduate School of Business) Marriott School of Management (BYU)

WANT TO LEARN MORE?

There are many different ways to get involved with social innovation within your major. For a full list of other opportunities, please visit silcbyu.com

EXPERIENCE (INTERNSHIPS, JOBS, PROGRAMS)

Students for Social Entrepreneurship Internship University Impact Fund/University Venture Fund (in Salt Lake) Academy for Creating Enterprise (Spanish required) Students for Social Innovation Internship Social Venture Academy

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
marriottschool.byu.edu/selfreliance ted.com (especially tedxbyu.com) inc.com Sign up for emails from the Ballard Center and Kennedy Center socialedge.org Stanford Social Innovation Review (ssireview.org)