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Business and Impact Planning for Social Enterprises (0.SolveX)
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People in every corner of the world are innovating to solve social and environmental problems in their communities. In the past decade, new programs like MIT Solve have emerged to support those social entrepreneurs and drive partnerships to accelerate their impact. However, many startups find it difficult to develop business plans that clearly communicate their work and impact.
The main focus of this course is to help early-stage social impact startups define key aspects of their business by examining case studies from leading social entrepreneurs and both nonprofit and for-profit enterprises around the world.
The course was created by MIT Solve for MITx, and is now archived on the Open Learning Library (OLL), which is free to use. You have the option to sign up and enroll in each module if you want to track your progress, or you can view and use all the materials without enrolling.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Management
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Sastry, Anjali
Date Added:
06/01/2021
Ethical Practice: Leading Through Professionalism, Social Responsibility, and System Design
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This course offers an introduction to ethics in business, with a focus on business management. Students explore theoretical concepts in business ethics, and cases representing the challenges they will likely face as managers. There is opportunity to work with guest faculty as well as business and other professional practitioners. Individual class sessions take the form of moderated discussion, with occasional short lectures from the instructor.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Business and Communication
Management
Philosophy
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Hafrey, Leigh
Date Added:
02/01/2016
Gender and Japanese Popular Culture
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This course examines relationships between identity and participation in Japanese popular culture as a way of understanding the changing character of media, capitalism, fan communities, and culture. It emphasizes contemporary popular culture and theories of gender, sexuality, race, and the workings of power and value in global culture industries. Topics include manga (comic books), hip-hop and other popular music, anime and feature films, video games, contemporary literature, and online communication. Students present analyses and develop a final project based on a particular aspect of gender and popular culture.

Subject:
Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Graphic Arts
Languages
Social Science
World Cultures
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Condry, Ian
Date Added:
09/01/2015
History of Urban Form: Locating Capitalism: Producing Early Modern Cities and Objects
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What was the early modern economy like, and how did monetization impact artistic production, consumption, and the afterlife of objects? This seminar-format class explores major topics and themes concerning interconnections between early modern artistic and architectural creation and the economy. We will approach capitalism not as an inevitable system, but rather as a particular historical formation. Core course themes: commodification, production, and consumption, using case studies of the impact of the mercantile economy on chapels; palaces; prints and paintings, and their replication; and other material objects, including coins.

Subject:
Applied Science
Architecture and Design
Art History
Arts and Humanities
History
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Jacobi, Lauren
Date Added:
02/01/2014
Implementing policies for global value chains
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This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Low-income countries can benefit from participating in global value chains, or GVCs, which account for the majority of world trade Through cooperation with high-income economies, GVCs can provide local workers with better wages Deep trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties can stimulate this international economic cooperation In a new study, these policies are compared to help policy makers select the optimal tool for implementing GVCs Deep trade agreements regulate border measures and domestic policies while bilateral investment treaties protect investments in developing economies Both tools help forge backward linkages within GVCs But countries hoping to increase forward linkages and diversify must seek deep trade agreements The findings highlight that pro-trade and anti-trade stances can impact countries’ integration into GVCs Coordinating these production chains requires a nexus of trade, investment, and intellectual property Further research is needed to understand the imp.."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

Subject:
Economics
Geology
Physical Science
Social Science
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Research Square
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Date Added:
09/20/2019
Intermediate Macroeconomics
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In this course, the student will build on and apply what you learned in the introductory macroeconomics course. The student will use the concepts of output, unemployment, inflation, consumption, and investment to study the dynamics of an economy at a more advanced level. As the course progresses, the student will gain a better appreciation for how policy shifts and changes in one sector impact the rest of the macroeconomy (whether the impacts are intended or unintended). The student will also examine the causes of inflation and depression, and discuss various approaches to responding to them. By the end of this course, the student should be able to think critically about the economy and develop your own unique perspective on various issues. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: Explain the standard theory in macroeconomics at an intermediate level; Explain and use the basic tools of macroeconomic theory, and apply them to help address problems in public policy; Analyze the role of government in allocating scarce resources; Explain how inflation affects entire economic systems; Synthesize the impact of employment and unemployment in a free market economy; Build macroeconomic models to describe changes over time in monetary and fiscal policy; Compare and contrast arguments concerning business, consumers and government, and make good conjectures regarding the possible solutions; Analyze the methods of computing and explaining how much is produced in an economy; Apply basic tools that are used in many fields of economics, including uncertainty, capital and investment, and economic growth. (Economics 202)

Subject:
Economics
Social Science
Material Type:
Assessment
Full Course
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Provider:
The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:
11/18/2011
Investment vehicles, insurance, and retirement: Roth IRAs
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This18 minute video will teach students what an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) is and specifically, the Roth IRA. This video will provide examples of how investing through a Roth IRA can build capital for later in life. This video will enforce the standard EPF. 18

Subject:
Economics
Social Science
Material Type:
Lecture
Provider:
Khan Academy
Date Added:
11/06/2018
Just Money: Banking as if Society Mattered
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Do you know what your bank does with your money? What is the role of a bank in producing societal well-being?
This course looks into banks that operate differently, namely, “just banks" that use capital and finance as a tool to address social and ecological challenges.
This course is for anyone who wants to understand the unique role banks play as intermediaries in our economy and how they can leverage that position to produce positive social, environmental, and economic change.
Go to OCW’s Open Learning Library site for 11.405x: Just Money: Banking as if Society Mattered. The site is free to use, just like all OCW sites. You have the option to sign up and enroll in the course if you want to track your progress, or you can view and use all the materials without enrolling.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Finance
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Käufer, Katrin
Thompson, J.
Date Added:
02/01/2021
Macroeconomics
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Macroeconomics provides an introduction to economic principles and market forces including supply and demand, unemployment, inflation, international trade and capital flows, monetary policy and banking, fiscal policy and globalization.

Subject:
Economics
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Textbook
Provider:
Lumen Learning
Provider Set:
Candela Courseware
Date Added:
03/31/2016
Principles of Microeconomics
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The purpose of this course is to provide the student with a basic understanding of the principles of microeconomics. At its core, the study of economics deals with the choices and decisions that have to be made in order to manage scarce resources available to us. Microeconomics is the branch of economics that pertains to decisions made at the individual level, i.e. by individual consumers or individual firms, after evaluating resources, costs, and tradeoffs. "The economy" refers to the marketplace or system in which these choices interact with one another. In this course, the student will learn how and why these decisions are made and how they affect one another in the economy. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Think intuitively about economic problems; Identify how individual economic agents make rational choices given scarce resources and will know how to optimize the use of resources at hand; Understand some simplistic economic models related to Production, Trade, and the Circular Flow of Resources; Analyze and apply the mechanics of Demand and Supply for Individuals, Firms, and the Market; Apply the concept of Marginal Analysis in order to make optimal choices and identify whether the choices are 'efficient' or 'equitable'; Apply the concept of Elasticity as a measure of responsiveness to various variables; Identify the characteristic differences amongst various market structures, namely, Perfectly Competitive Markets, Non-Competitive Markets, and Imperfectly Competitive Markets and understand the differences in their operation; Analyze how the Demand and Supply technique works for the Resource Markets. (Economics 101; See also: Business Administration 200)

Subject:
Business and Communication
Economics
Management
Social Science
Material Type:
Assessment
Full Course
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Textbook
Provider:
The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:
11/18/2011
Public Economics I
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This course covers theory and evidence on government taxation policy. Topics include tax incidence, optimal tax theory, the effect of taxation on labor supply and savings, taxation and corporate behavior, and tax expenditure policy.

Subject:
Economics
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Poterba, James
Werning, Iván
Date Added:
09/01/2012
Taxes and Business Strategy
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Traditional finance and other business courses analyze a broad spectrum of factors affecting business decision-making but typically give little systematic consideration to the role of taxes. In contrast, traditional tax accounting courses concentrate on administrative issues while ignoring the richness of the context in which tax factors operate. The objective of the course is to bridge this gap by providing a framework for recognizing tax planning opportunities and applying basic principles of tax strategy.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Economics
Finance
Management
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Plesko, George
Date Added:
09/01/2002
Three C's of Creditworthiness
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This lesson goes over the three C’s of creditworthiness, how to improve your creditworthiness, and has some examples of bad creditworthiness and what those people did to overcome their situation. There is a presentation attached,worksheet, and key.

Subject:
Accounting
Material Type:
Homework/Assignment
Lesson Plan
Author:
Brittney Patterson
Date Added:
06/20/2023