Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainability The American University of Paris

Overview

The Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainability program is offered at The American University of Paris guiding principle of this major is to find the path from the strategic, social, environmental, political and economic status quo to new approaches that better meet the challenges presented by anthropogenic climate change, economic inequality, social justice and other pressing issues in contemporary society. Students can choose from three focus areas: Entrepreneurship, Environmental Sustainability or NGO and Mission-Based Management. Through these focus areas, students will acquire tools to analyze complex problems, understand and create organizational structures and apply different organizational strategies and practices to a variety of problems, projects and contexts.  

The educational goals for this major are as follows:

• Examine how organizations of various structures and design operate in local and global environments in a sustainable and socially responsible manner.  

• Apply critical thinking and analytical frameworks in management context with uncertain data and limited financial information.  

• Apply organizational strategies and practices to different cultural, environmental, social, entrepreneurial, economic, and mission-based contexts.  

• Demonstrate the ability to communicate convincingly, as an organizational professional, in writing and orally.  

• Work independently and collaboratively to achieve stated organizational, social and environmental goals as demonstrated in projects and case studies in the classroom and in the field.