American University MBA Students Work to Make DC Nation’s Capital of Social Enterprise
In the aftermath of the recent financial crisis, MBA programs took some heat for contributing to a business culture whose dangers were all too apparent. But, according to a recent study, 95% of MBA alumni believe their MBA education has prepared them to change the business world for the better.
That would come as no surprise to MBA students at American University Kogod School of Business’s Social Enterprise Association (SEA)–an organization whose mission is “to inspire, educate, and enable students to create social value through personal and professional pursuits in nonprofit, public, and for-profit organizations.”
On October 9, the SEA hosted an event called “DC – The Social Enterprise City” to think about ways DC could become a global leader in the growing field of social enterprise. The event was part of the club’s Social Enterprise week and sponsored in part by “Build,” a DC non-profit whose mission is to use entrepreneurship to motivate disengaged low-income students to succeed in school and go to college. Panelists included Jim Epstein of EFO Capital Management, Daryn Dodson of Hub DC, and Robert Summers, the director of the Department of Small and Local Business Development.
These sorts of cross-sections of DC’s business and government community are one of the major advantages of pursuing an MBA in the DC metro. American Kogod, like other schools in the metro, consistently draws on these resources to offer unique opportunities to its MBAs at the crossroads of the public and private sectors.
