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Wharton Digital Press  |  September 8, 2015

Get Started: Social Entrepreneurship Course

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A new online course with The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook authors begins September 14, 2015.

Learn how social entrepreneurs are tackling and diminishing many of the world’s problems in Wharton Online’s new Social Entrepreneurship course. Incorporating suggested readings from The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook, the course will be taught by authors Wharton professor Ian C. MacMillan and Dr. James Thompson, Wharton Social Entrepreneurship Program director, and their colleague Peter Frumkin, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy.

The course will also explain how to develop, test, and deploy high-impact solutions to society’s toughest challenges.

Get Started

  1. Sign up for the free online Social Entrepreneurship Coursera course.
  2. Download the free Coursera Edition of The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook, which covers Phase One: Pressure-Test Your Start-Up Idea, before October 18, 2015.
  3. Download the free Worksheet Companion to The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook.

To learn more about MacMillan and Thompson’s book, visit The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook.