5 credits

Social entrepreneurship has become prominent as a dynamic approach to address societal needs and problems. Healthcare organizations and their leaders who embrace social entrepreneurship can accomplish their missions by using social entrepreneurship to overcome some of the barriers that inhibit the widespread promotion of innovation and performance in the healthcare environment. In this course, students will examine the principles, the case and need, and role of social entrepreneurship in healthcare, the common traits to become a social entrepreneur, and the organizational models needed to facilitate and promote social entrepreneurship. Additionally, students will learn how to leverage, implement, and integrate social entrepreneurship models into the "health for all" formula, develop new solutions and innovative strategies to address global, local population, community, and individual healthcare needs, and to improve healthcare performance.