EPS4527 EPS By Design: Economic, Social, Environmental Challenges
4 Advanced Management Credits
How would you change the world if you could? This course is designed for entrepreneurs who want to learn and explore opportunities aimed directly at improving/benefitting the economic, social, and environmental challenges we face today. Design Thinking methodology, user-oriented collaborative design, and key Entrepreneurship concepts and action methodologies will be used to solve economic, social, environmental/climate problems. Examples of opportunity spaces include renewable energy, eco-friendly Fashion, Nature’s Design (Biomimicry), carbon-positive construction, increasing manufacturing efficiencies, protecting wildlife, food production, waste management, managing impacts of climate change on communities, and building a sustainable future, etc. This Course encourages students to focus on challenges you are passionate about, to give these problems definition, and to build solutions that are well-defined. The Course is experiential. Students have the opportunity to engage with multiple stakeholders to motivate their entrepreneurial approaches and solutions. Guest Entrepreneurs, including notable Babson/Olin/Wellesley Alumnae, who have developed innovations in the economic, social, and environmental/climate change opportunities spaces will share their venture experiences with the Class.
Open to Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors of Babson College, Olin College, Wellesley College