The School of Business

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Be a Changemaker

Social Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship

The School of Business delivers initiatives that strengthen organizations, build entrepreneurial leaders and catalyze social innovation. Our commitment to positive change is reflected in PSU's membership of the prestigious Ashoka U Changemaker Campus consortium.

Academic Programs

Graduate Certificate

The Social Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship Graduate Certificate prepares social entrepreneurs to start something new, and gives mission-driven intrapreneurs the skills needed to innovate from within an existing organization. Either way, you'll address an issue that matters to you.

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Undergraduate Certificate

The Social Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship Undergraduate Certificate equips you to bring meaning and purpose to your career in business or nonprofit leadership. You'll be prepared to create practical, effective solutions to social and environmental challenges.

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Business Minor

The Business Minor in Social Innovation teaches non-business majors how to design and apply creative concepts to environmental and social issues of their choice. You'll learn from experienced and practicing social entrepreneurs, leading experts, and mentors to develop impactful solutions.

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PSU Center for Entrepreneurship

The PSU Center for Entrepreneurship is the resource hub for PSU students and faculty to catalyze innovation and entrepreneurship, expand your impact, explore your ideas, and bring your future into focus. 

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NET IMPACT

The Net Impact student organization inspires, educates, and equips individuals to use the power of business to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world. All PSU students are invited to attend Net Impact career events, community impact opportunities, and hands-on B Corp consulting experiences.

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Elevating Impact Archive

The Elevating Impact Summit was an experience in social innovation, a place to collide with a community of changemakers, and a forum to discover how business tools are used to address social and environmental issues in brilliant new ways. Find videos and highlights from the Elevating Impact Summit here.

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Student Organizations

Develop professional skills and build relationships with community partners through a variety of industry-engaging, experiential leadership opportunities.

Undergraduate Student Organizations

Graduate Student Organizations

 

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Publications

The School of Business authors award-winning publications on teaching, learning, launching and evaluating in the quickly-evolving field of social innovation and social entrepreneurship.

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Map the System

Map the System challenges participants to use systems thinking as a guiding approach to understanding and addressing complex issues. Participants delve deep into a social or environmental issue, explore, probe and research its connecting elements, and share their findings with the world using systems maps. 

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Guillaume Bureth

Featured Alumni:
Guillaume Bureth

Social Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship
Graduate Certificate, '18

CSR Consultant, France

Featured Alumni:
Alex Gamboa Grand

Social Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship
Graduate Certificate, '16

Co-Founder, Good Intent

Hugh Neri

Featured Alumni:
Hugh Neri

Social Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship
Undergraduate Certificate, '17

COO & Head of Design, Nexgarden

Connect With Us

Abby Chroman
Program Manager, Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship
achroman@pdx.edu

For general inquiries, please email impactentrepreneurs@pdx.edu.