Professor Bo Hopkins had two goals in mind when he asked the undergraduates of his “Social Enterprise in Developing Economies” course to develop a raw case study about an organization that embodies the experiences discussed in class. First, to provide a meaningful benefit to the organization at the heart of the study, and second, to teach students how to embrace and reduce the ambiguity of real-world problems. Over the past six years, students have traveled to host organizations across six continents, spending 6-8 weeks at a time during their summer months between Spring and Fall semesters. The purpose of the course, Hopkins explains, is to “create a more informed, more engaged, and more willing to be open-minded student that will lend their talents to these kinds of challenges going forward, whether immediately or not.”
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