2 New Spring Semester Courses for IDCE grad students & MBA students
Suggested email Subject line -2 new Spr. Grad. Courses: Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship
MGMT 5900 Cultivating & Managing Innovation
Professor: Dr. Bob Krim, a leader in the Mass. technical and social Innovation world as founder and director of the
Boston History & Innovation Collaborative for a decade, teaches the course. He has a multi-disciplinary background in
History, Economics, Management and Sociology/Social Change.
Description: What drives successful innovations? How are innovations transformed into profit and/or social change?
Why are some regions like Massachusetts able to stay more innovative over centuries? These questions, and others, will
be addressed in this special topic course designed to help students be creative in their jobs, inspire start-ups, and/or
manage people and teams charged with being innovative. The course will explore where good ideas come from, and
expose students to the breakthrough practices of companies, clusters, and regions. Case studies will focus on past
inventions like the Kindle and the first organ transplant, and to the latest breakthroughs by EMC and Apple. We will also
consider social innovations like New Profit Inc. and its venture philanthropy approach. Incorporating a multi-disciplinary
approach including history and development, MBA students and IDCE graduate students will be given skills needed to
analyze the broad picture and maintain an innovative edge. Some leading Massachusetts innovators will give guest
lectures.
Offered Wed. 6-9pm Spring semester. This new inter-disciplinary course will be taught at the GSOM Southboro Clark
satellite campus. There is a shuttle which goes from the Clark Worcester campus before this and other classes, and
returns at the end of class. For drivers: The satellite campus is strategically located near the intersection of 9, I-90 and I495.
Course Requirements include: a 5-7 page research paper, 2 team presentations on past innovations in this region; final quiz.
CAP 5808 Social Entrepreneurship/MGMT 5808 Social Entrepreneurship
Professor: Dr. Bob Krim, who has founded and led two social entrepreneurial organizations over the past twenty-five
years, developed and will teach this new Spring semester course. Monday 1-4pm, Worcester campus.
Are you interested in knowing about, starting, or working in an entrepreneurial organization to meet a social need
whether globally or in the US? What are key steps and challenges for you to make this happen? Hybrids, poverty,
sustainability, venture philanthropy, healthcare are all part of what an MBA or a IDCE grad student needs to understand
to challenge convention, and help make changes small and large. Leading Mass. social entrepreneurs will do some guest
lectures.
Course Requirements include: Semester long development of a business plan for a new social enterprise; final is
“elevator speech” for this enterprise; also: presenting a social enterprise case with other student, and Terminology Midsemester Quiz.
Capstone level requirements will be a bit more rigorous.
For Questions on either course, email: rkrim@clarku.edu