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MBA Social Impact Emphasis

All BYU graduate students can now acquire additional skills and experience in social impact through the MBA Social Impact Emphasis. Emphases do not appear on transcripts, so we list all recipients online (see bottom of this page).

MBA Social Impact Emphasis Criteria

Complete one of the following courses:

  • MBA 692: Social Impact (3.0 credits, Fall/Winter)
  • MBA 693R: Advanced Social Impact & Impact Investing (2.0 credits, Winter)

Complete one of the following courses:

  • MBA 574: Creating Virtuous Organizations (3.0 credits, Fall)
  • MBA 675: Corporate Social Strategy (3.0 credits, Winter)

Complete one of the following experiential learning courses:

  • MSB 471R: Social Venture Academy (3.0 credits, Fall/Winter)
  • MSB 472R: Ballard Brief (2.0 credits, Fall/Winter)
  • MSB 492R: Social Impact On-Campus Internship (SIP/ISIP/CSIP; 3.0 credits; Fall/Winter)
  • MPA 631: Public Program Evaluation (3.0, Winter)
  • MPA 659R: Grantwell (3.0 credits; 1.5 credits Fall and 1.5 credits Winter)
  • MBA 692: Social Impact not taken as one of the required courses (3.0 credits Fall/Winter)
  • MBA 693R: Advanced Social Impact & Impact Investing not taken as one of the required courses (2.0 credits, see above)
  • MBA 574: Creating Virtuous Organizations not taken as one of the required courses (3.0 credits, Fall)
  • MBA 675: Corporate Social Strategy not taken as one of the required courses (3.0 credits, Winter)
  •  MPA 638: Social Impact Service Design

  • Preapproved experiential learning course where your project is focused on social impact:

    • MSB 490R: Improving Helping Behavior and Practices

MBA Social Impact Emphasis Recipients

Any BYU graduate student can earn the MBA Social Impact Emphasis. The following changemakers have completed the requirements for the MBA Social Impact Emphasis (formerly MBA Social Innovation Minor). Congratulations on your hard work!

2024

2023

2022

  • Addy Roney, MPA

2021

2019

  • Megan Brewster, MBA
  • Camilla Camargo, MBA
  • Wendy Carrigan, Executive MPA
  • Erik Champenois, MPA
  • Teresa Yi-Ning Hawang, MPA

2018

  • Raven Albertson, MA Mass Communications
  • Elise Berrett, MPA
  • Fernando Casado, MPA
  • Wesley Jeffrey, MS Sociology
  • Chloe Jensen, MBA
  • Jamie Kim, MA Music Education

2017

  • Kulani Elliott, MPA
  • Ted Jackson, MPA
  • Amy Jennings, MBA
  • Joao Batista Oliveira, MPA
  • Abigail Weidmer, MPA
  • Jessica Wilkinson, MPA

2016

  • Carolyn Brown, MPA
  • Laura Palmer, MPA
  • Alejandro Raygoza, MPA
  • Lance Stevens, MBA
  • Samantha Thee, MPA

2015

  • MaryDawn Barnard, MPA
  • David Alexander Carroll II, Environmental Science
  • Danielle Hallam, MPA
  • Jessica Maughan, MPA
  • Melissa Mitchell, MPA
  • Jessica Pino, MPA
  • Jeff Roberts, MPA
  • Brianna Rowland, MPA
  • Todd Tapp, MPA
  • Tyler Terry, MPA
  • Amy Wood, PhD Mechanical Engineering

2014

  • Angelica Aguilar, MPA
  • Delphine Bize, MPA
  • Angela Breedlove, MPA
  • Heather Hammond, MBA
  • Stephanie Hibbert, MPA
  • Cindy Jenkins, MPA
  • Crys Kevan, MPA
  • Rebecca Loveland, MPA
  • Elicia Merwin, MPA
  • Megan Murff, MBA
  • Danielle Shurtleff, MPA
  • Kara Staley, MPA
  • Robert Tonks, MBA
  • Allyson Robison West, MPA
  • Kristen West, MPA
  • Michael Wiseman, MPA

2013

  • Brittany Bird, MPA
  • Jennifer Brito, MPA
  • Sheila Mayne, MPA
  • Anggita Putri, MPA

2011

  • Saeko Yamashita Logsdon, MPA
  • David Owen, MPA
  • Nadmidbayar Tsendbaatar, MPA
  • Julie Wiscombe, MPA