Business of Sustainability

The Master of Science in Social Entrepreneurship offers students a unique combination of business entrepreneurship skills delivered within the context of achieving both social and financial missions.

The courses focus entirely on the business aspects of social entrepreneurship including feasibility, planning, marketing, management, finance and execution. Social, environmental and health issues are integrated into the readings, cases, teaching, guest lectures, exercises and assignments. The program also includes a for-credit practical capstone project in which students have the option to develop a business plan for a new social enterprise.

Business is increasingly involved in social and environmental issues. On the one hand, government and civil society are exerting increasing pressure on the business sector to help address the world’s pressing social and environmental sustainability challenges. On the other hand, a growing number of businesses are seeking to respond proactively to these challenges. This program prepares students to help shape solutions to social and environmental sustainability challenges, both from within and from outside the business sector.

The program was designed with several audiences in mind: current Marshall graduate students already strong on the business side, current graduate students outside Marshall who may have strength on the sustainability side but want more strength on the business side, and individuals not yet enrolled but eager to deepen their understanding of the field.

Provides students from all undergraduate majors with an understanding of social entrepreneurship and its relationship to government and public policy as well as an understanding of management skills specific to starting and maintaining a social enterprise.

In his Green Entrepreneurship course this spring, Professor Jeremy Dann will teach students that sustainability isn’t just necessary; it’s also profitable.

Experts in sustainability, secondhand styling, composting, and textiles shared lessons in being conscious consumers of fashion.

The Business of Energy Transition Initiative gathered global business leaders and academics to discuss the future of energy innovation and transformation.

Professor Nick Vyas weighs in on the strike’s short-term and long-term impacts on the global supply chain.

Fueled by his experience at USC Marshall, Randy Kendrick ’86 is building a future marked by innovation and sustainability.

HIATT, director of the Business of Energy Transition, tells the Wall Street Journal that gas prices will likely reamin low and not factor into the November election.

HIATT, Director of Business of Energy Transition Initiative, tells Business Insider that gas prices could inflate due to infrastructure damage in Tampa post-Hurricane Milton.

HIATT, director of Business Energy Transition Initiative, explains to CNBC how new sources of Lithium extraction in Arkansas is necessary to a sustainable energy transition strategy.

HIATT, director of Business Energy Transition Initiative, speaks to Politico about Newsom's political pressure on oil refineries and the state's vulnerability to higher prices at the pump.

HIATT, director of the Business of Energy Transition, chatted with USC Today about the financial and sustainable effects of hydropower as a renewable energy source.