MSc Social Innovationand Entrepreneurshiplse.ac.uk/sieA cutting-edge Master’s programme for social entrepreneurs within startups, NGOs and corporations.

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The MSc Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship is a cutting-edge

degree designed for students to develop the knowledge, professional

experience and skills to launch innovative entrepreneurial solutions for

the world's most pressing social and environmental challenges.

The one-year degree imparts insights from research in the rapidly-

developing field of social innovation and entrepreneurship. Students

will benefit from practical learning from our worldwide network of

social enterprises, including NGOs, startups and corporate divisions,

to help launch or scale up successful entrepreneurial ventures.

Develop your intellectual and practical skills

Based on LSE’s tradition for academic excellence, ranked #2 in the world for social

science and management*, you will gain the latest academic insights from

management, psychology, sociology, economics, development and anthropology. With

this you will develop a strong foundation of knowledge, looking past current trends and

fashions in social innovation for long-lasting success.

You will also gain essential practical skills to apply this knowledge. Students will have

the opportunity to obtain field based experience in a developing country, building a

deeper understanding of the context of social challenges, the locus of the current

opportunities for innovation, and the real-world challenges they will face in

implementing entrepreneurial ventures with social goals.

Start your own social enterprise

We provide you with the opportunity to develop your own social enterprise during

your year at LSE. You will have the chance to put your classroom knowledge, plus

real-world immersion experience from your field trip, into action by completing a

practical social enterprise design project. The expert guidance of LSE faculty and

external partners will support you to generate impactful ideas, build social business

models, and launch or scale your own venture.

Change the way you think about Social Innovation

We take a unique approach to social innovation and entrepreneurship teaching, with a core

belief that understanding the root cause of a social problem is fundamental to creating an effective

solution. You will learn critical techniques to analyse the root cause of social challenges in diverse

global contexts, and use this deeper understanding to design more effective and innovative

solutions.

This programme offers the opportunity to designeconomically viable ventures that also have the potentialto raise the quality of life for billions of people. The LSE isthe perfect place to guide you through this process as youwill interact with faculty members who have worked withcompanies, social enterprises and NGOs; helping them todesign, set up and scale their ventures.

Dr Nadia Millington, MSc Social Innovation andEntrepreneurship Deputy Programme Director

Students will design a new social enterpriseduring the degree, based first and foremost onan understanding of the root cause of the socialproblem.

Professor Harry Barkema, MSc Social Innovationand Entrepreneurship Programme Director

Programme overview

Social innovation is a very young field, so thereare lots of new fashions and fads. Theprogramme focuses on what really works anddoesn’t work in the field, based on rigorousresearch.

Professor Harry Barkema, MSc Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programme Director

A key feature of the programme is to have thestudents go to a developing country early in theprogramme, so that they can design truly viableand innovative solutions that meet real needs onthe ground.

Professor Harry Barkema, MSc Social Innovationand Entrepreneurship Programme Director

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We are looking for the next generation of leaders orchange makers that are bound together by the goal ofengaging in entrepreneurship as a force for socialtransformation. Your classmates therefore are not onlyyour colleagues but a valuable source of learning anda sounding board against which you can test andshare ideas or experimental business models.

Nadia Millington, Deputy Programme Director,MSc Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Learn from your classmates

The LSE Department of Management attracts top students from across the worldeach year. Your classmates will typically have experience in emerging economies,working in areas that deliver social impact in their home communities. Theprogramme offers opportunities to learn from your classmates in debates andpresentations, team projects, social events, blogs and online communities. This willnot only develop your cross-cultural management skills, but also bring freshinsights to your understanding of social problems and possible solutions.

Backgrounds:Marketing, Economics,

Management,Engineering,

Industrial design, Public policy

Class Profile

Being a part of a diverse group was the best thingabout LSE experience. Learning from each other’sexperience and sharing different perspectives and approach, pushed the boundaries of imagination.

Pallavi Gupta, Alum, Founder and Managing Director,FifthEstate

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We have an online community of students who wereinvolved in stand alone social innovation designcourses for over the past 8 years. This is a highlyinteresting expanding social universe of manypeople working in the relevant space in emergingeconomies that students will have access to.

Professor Harry Barkema, MSc Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programme Director

It was fascinating to learn about innovationsoriginating in other developing and third worldcounties, to see how scarcity can produce some of thebest innovative solutions, and how such frugalinnovations can be used in different circumstances innot only developing but even developed countries.

Pallavi Gupta, Alum, Founder and Managing Directorof FifthEstate

It was a very special experience for me to be part of agroup of students who are all so bright and motivatedto make a real difference in the world. Following theprogress of my former classmates always puts a smileon my face.

Sofia Zab, Alum, Marketing Director at Branch.co & Co-founder of Sokotext

Your Career

Prominent LSE speakers Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook

Bill Gates,Former Chief Executive of Microsoft

Christine Lagarde,Managing Director of the InternationalMonetary Fund (IMF)Dalai Lama

Grow your networkThe MSc Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship programme will give you

access to the LSE Department of Management’s network of social innovation

researchers, NGOs and companies worldwide. We are home to the Social

Innovation Co-Creation Lab research unit, and insights from our cutting edge

research impacts on social problems across the world. As an LSE student,

you will also become a part of our prestigious wider network of over 100,000

students and alumni across the world, including business leaders, heads of

state and Nobel Prize winners. This network will give you a platform for career

success, and links to like-minded, socially-focused professionals worldwide.

Take the next step in your careerThe programme will prepare you to take the next step in your career in social

innovation in emerging economies. Whether you want to grow an existing social

venture, develop a social innovation project within a corporate or development

organisation, or launch your own new enterprise, you can develop the knowledge,

skills and international experience you need to succeed during your year at LSE.

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Core coursesThe MSc Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship programme is built around two

core elements.

The first fundamental element of the programme will focus on social innovation design,

including understanding social problems with field trips to emerging markets, innovating

social business models, funding social ventures, and measuring and scaling social impact and a

design project.

The second core element focuses on essential management skills for innovative social

entrepreneurs: marketing, managerial economics, entrepreneurial finance, leadership and

team management skills and qualitative and quantitative methodologies for analysing data.

With the combination of these two elements, you will develop a well-rounded skills set with

the knowledge and capabilities to manage your own social enterprise from design and launch

to implementation and growth.

DissertationYou will also complete an individual dissertation project at the end of the degree. Your

dissertation can take the form of a consulting project, research project or an individual

enterprise design project, so that you can graduate with a fully-designed social venture.

Elective coursesYou can customise the programme according to your own interests and career goals with a

choice of optional elective courses. Specialist optional elective courses are available from the

Department of Management in Open Innovation, Negotiation Analysis, International

Marketing, Entrepreneurial Finance, Digital Media Futures, and Organisational

Behaviour for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. You can also select from a

broader range of elective courses from leading academic departments across LSE, such as

International Development and Anthropology.

LSE inspired me to be contrarian, tochallenge the status quo for change tohappen. You have to be willing to take a boldmove and have the courage to address thechallenges you see.

Aaron Kirunda, Alum Founder of Enjuba

Curriculum Past consulting projects include:

IBM – Big data in Brazil | IBM – Tech support for entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka |

Honey Care Africa – ‘Business in a Beehive’ in Kenya | Reconstructed Living

Labs – Scaling social enterprise in Africa | Rickshaw Bank – Business

model renewal in India | Riders for Health – Healthcare transport

in Africa | Seeds for Development – Economically sustainable

farming in Uganda | Gyan Shala – Education for slum

children in India | Rutuba – Agricultural micro-

franchising in Kenya | EDOM – Solving

micro-nutrient malnutrition in Kenya

Our teaching is largely research based, so youwill get the best knowledge currentlyavailable for social enterprises and socialbusinesses, including from our Innovation Labwith research programmes all over Africa and South Asia

Professor Harry Barkema, MSc Social Innovationand Entrepreneurship Programme Director

COMPULSORY COURSES

(2.5 UNITS)

ELECTIVECOURSES

(1.5 UNITS)

Dissertation(0.5 units)

UnderstandingSocial Problemsfor Innovation

andEntrepreneurship

(0.5 units)

Social InnovationDesign

(0.5 units)

Social Innovation and

EntrepreneurshipI

(0.5 units)

Social Innovation and

EntrepreneurshipII

(0.5 units)

The London School of Economics is a world-renowned centre for excellence in teaching and research,

with the aim of impacting on socially meaningful challenges in business and policy. The Department of

Management upholds these values.

Our department has a tradition of innovation in business education, breaking the traditional business

school mould and developing fresh approaches to teaching through academic excellence, critical analysis

and the latest research in our field.

London is a great base for students. It has a very richecosystem of organisations in the social domain, aswell as headquarters of a lot of large internationalorganisations. It is also an exciting and incrediblydiverse city to live in.

Professor Harry Barkema, MSc Social Innovation andEntrepreneurship Programme Director

My experience was very typical of LSE as awhole: a place that encourages exploring radicalideas and getting engaged in interestinginitiatives, while anchoring you with a sense ofpragmatism and real-world ambition.

Sofia Zab, Alum, Marketing Director at Branch.co &Co-founder of Sokotext

Contact usIf you have any questions about the programme,

please contact us:

dom.msc.admissions@lse.ac.uk

+44 (0) 20 7955 6605

About the LSE Department of Management

We are proud to be rated #1 in the UK for research in business and

management studies (REF 2014). Our research pushes the frontiers of

our understanding of the world, developing cutting-edge insights for

practitioners. We collaborate with businesses, third sector organisations

and policymakers across the globe to bring about real world impact.

We are located in the heart of central London, on the doorstep of global

business, government, culture and entertainment.

Find out more and applyWe encourage you to find out more about the programme, entryrequirements and application process by visiting our website:lse.ac.uk/sie

Applications are open from October for entry in September thefollowing year. Places are offered on a first-come, first-served basis,so please apply early to avoid disappointment.

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