Great overview of business strategies for social impact. For the impact investing (module 4), the data definitely need updating (2016 data in 2020?)

Tremendo curso, bastante interesante aunque a veces requería conocimientos previos para comprender ideas, especialmente por la última semana.

Great introduction, definitely provided me with a better understanding of where organizations can have impact, and how to measure it.

This course made me think much deeper about purpose and passion and how I'd like to contribute to greater social impact in my career.

SO much leanings taking this course. It is certainly beneficial to my current and future work as Human Resource practitioner.

This course gave a great insight on Strategies related to Social Impact, just loved the concepts and techniques discussed.

Katherine part was very interesting and I couldn't stop watching the videos. But the last week was a bit disappointing.

The examples from CEO's was inspiring and got my attention.

Lessons were very practical and I could easily relate with.

I learned a lot. The part about impact investing was a bit too complicated for me not having a financial background.

Some concepts were a bit complex for an online course or needed to be more interactive, mainly the las module

Some of the case studies are becoming a little dated. Also consider including some international examples.

Good fundamentals. The last professor needed more visual aids due to the complexity of the conversation

Good Introduction to the topic. Would have preferred more details and different examples though.

Impact investing module uses data from research conducted in 2001, 2003. We are in 2020.

El último módulo fue muy técnico pero en general estuvo muy interesante y clarificador.

Good. a systematic approach to learning social impact investing.

The lecturer for the last week didn't present his ideas clearly.

First 3 weeks are great!

good material, teacher

very useful course.

Good overview.

nice course

Great Intro

Although I gave it 3 stars, it doesn't mean it's not good enough. I just have two criticisms: first, the actual strategies that can be used by social-impact businesses could have been better conceptualised. The interviews are very useful because they offer real-world examples, however in a training provided by academics I would expect to see a systemisation by general categories, not just specific examples. In this sense, I don't think the interviews are optional, but actually form a great part of the course itself. My second criticism echoes what many other students said about the gap between the first three modules and the fourth. I found the last module to start quite abruptly on the assumption that we should know already basic notions like assets, for example, to which the previous ones had not contributed at all. I wasn't even sure what the base of the pyramid was referring to in this context and had to wait a little bit to understand. Apart from these criticisms, I actually enjoyed a lot the course and did learn many useful things, especially as a person new to social impact.

This course really delivered on the spectrum of strategies for social impact. Modules 2 and 3 are by far the best and most useful - well produced, with punchy, compelling content. Module 1 felt a bit slow and not overly relevant as I didn't have an organisation to apply the exercises to. Module 4 felt very disconnected from the rest of the course. it was so jarring to go from the concepts under discussion in short videos into multiple, long videos of complex financial terminology which felt mismatched to the level of the prior modules.