伦敦 Mayterm | 2025年5月5日- 2025年6月5日

救赎的创业

来探索伦敦令人兴奋的社会企业景观吧! Learn from seasoned 企业家 and innovators at the 伦敦 School of Economics (LSE) and Westmont College as you study successful business ventures and workshop some of your own ideas. Work alongside practitioners who are addressing contemporary issues like food scarcity, 无家可归, and refugee resettlement with creative and bold business solutions. Share life and serve alongside a local church that's creatively meeting the needs of its neighbors. All of this is carefully designed to instill in you a set of entrepreneurial 工具 and a redemptive vision that you can take with you into the global 市场.

  • 上升的初级班或高年级的地位
  • GPA(最低3分).2绩点(合资格)
  • 申请及论文

金字塔底层的企业- eb107s
描述:我们如何减轻贫困? It’s a question that drives leaders, governments, NGOs, and businesses all over the world. 一个更好的问题, 虽然, might be how do we empower traditionally under resourced populations to overcome poverty and live healthy, 可持续的生活?  这是一个救赎性的创业问题. 越来越多地, 企业家 and business leaders in the private and 公共部门s are employing innovation, 创业发展, 影响投资是对贫困挑战的回应, 为这些人群获得更好的结果铺平道路.
The goal of the course will be to identify the principal challenges and opportunities in serving the lowest-income markets at the bottom of the pyramid and the key factors that lead to business success or failure.

通过实地考察, 客座演讲, 还有定期的服务学习时间, students will gain greater understanding of some of the populations traditionally at the “bottom” of the socioeconomic pyramid - refugees, 无家可归者的, 还有曾经被监禁的人, 在别人. These experiences will prompt students to reflect on the complex issue of poverty at the intersection of business, 系统思考, 和ag娱乐官网.  充分利用提供的课程, students will walk away with experiential knowledge of how funding sources, 业务实体, 非营利组织的领导人, and local governments work together to create conditions for human flourishing, 尤其是在“最小的这些”中.

这门课程是为未来的管理人员开设的, 企业家, non-profit advocates and investment professionals who are interested in addressing the needs of society’s most vulnerable populations. The course seeks to provide an understanding of  how astute and novel business approaches can be created to address and perhaps reverse cycles and systems of poverty amongst under-resourced populations within a global urban center and, 这样做, ignite an entrepreneurial imagination for the contexts to which students will return.

社会企业家精神和ag娱乐官网行动- eb183
描述:我们为什么要参与社会变革? What is a social innovation and how can social responsibility be profitable? 成功的社会企业的特点是什么? What do innovation and creativity have to do with self-awareness 和ag娱乐官网?

This course will shed light on such questions as we consider a range of methods to understand and attend to pressing social problems through the lens of 创业 and innovation. 我们将审视自己作为当地的变革者, 具体的, 解决方案导向的社会变革努力在伦敦的心脏.

This course fuses Biblical principles with 市场 application to help students discover and apply their intelligence, 能源, 以及发现和面对社会问题的热情. 学生获得设计思维的基础, 利益相关方参与, and 创业 theories while hearing from practitioners living out these principles within the local church, 市场, 以及伦敦的公共部门. The course follows social innovation trends across four key sectors: private sector, 教会, 公共部门, 和非营利. We will commence with a full day hack-a-thon with The 伦敦 School of Economics  where students work together in groups on a relevant social problem, inspiring each other in the design and development of a proposed solution. 的理解, 工具, and perspectives they gain through participation in the course will contribute to their success in building and scaling their own enterprise, 咨询社会企业, or leading innovative business projects and spinoffs in the public and/or private sectors.

1万美元,不包括机票