This course presents you with a ‘big picture’ understanding of the field of impact investment management by offering different perspectives and key financial insights that add emotional intelligence and value to your program experience. Social enterprise and impact investing proactively intend to create positive impact as well as generate profits.
Today, the demand for excellence in the management of public resources has never been greater. Governments face unprecedented pressure for improved accountability while striving to provide high levels of service at a low cost. To get it right, governments must become more effective, efficient, innovative, and responsive. To meet the ever-increasing demands placed on public-sector professionals today, the Social Enterprise Academy (SEA) has designed this programme to build the skills  that will allow current and future public executives with the ability to effectively lead organisations for success.
Managing social enterprise activity provides not only a means to monitor the operating environment in commercial business regions, but also the capacity to build relationships within that region. Engaging with social enterprise allows companies options to diversify economically through entering different markets, as well as operationally through interactions with new customers, suppliers, and producers. The growing impact investment market provides capital to address the world’s most pressing challenges in sectors such as sustainable agriculture, clean technology, microfinance, and affordable and accessible basic services (e.g., housing, healthcare, and education).
This also sharpens your knowledge of modern portfolio theory and enhances your company’s investment portfolio strategy. Students will learn how to: a) create a  strategy that aligns a theory of social change with a sustainable business model that will provide the requisite resources; b) build a performance management system that measures social returns and guides strategic decision-making; and, c) scale impact through multiple strategies, including growth collaboration and policy influence.