IPER 336:
Environmental Entrepreneurship
The potential of markets for solving environmental problems, and for environmental entrepreneurs to invent those solutions. How to apply business principles of finance, marketing, economics, operations, and accounting to the provision of environmental goods and services. Case studies include innovation in materials and energy, conservation of land and wildlife, environmental product differentiation and supply chain management, investing under regulatory risk, and partnership between nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Guest speakers include environmental entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, corporate executives, and nonprofit leaders. Students develop their own business plans in environmental entrepreneurship.
| Units: 4