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The Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab (BSEL) is a Center of Excellence at the USC Marshall School of Business. A hub for social impact entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, BSEL works with USC undergraduate and graduate students from all departments, schools, and majors. We host a variety of mentorship and networking opportunities, and work closely with the Master of Science in Social Entrepreneurship program, a first-of-its-kind-program aimed at providing students with concrete business skills to build sustainable careers in social impact and business.
Founded in 2008 and named in 2014 through a gift from the Brittingham Family Foundation, BSEL has become one of the world’s leading hubs for social entrepreneurship leadership, education, and mentorship.
Our story is intertwined with the founding of the first-ever Master of Science in social entrepreneurship program housed in a business school. The MSSE program, housed at USC Marshall Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, was created in response to an overwhelming need to bring the business sector into the space of complex societal problem-solving. The MSSE program is closely aligned with our values and vision for the future, and with our mission to bolster the next generation of leaders to catalyze, accelerate, and deepen innovative solutions to the world’s most vexing problems.
We believe in continuous innovation in developing creative approaches to educational programming and research.
We believe that creating social impact through business requires a unique business education that exposes students in and out of the classroom to cutting-edge ideas and skills taught by seasoned instructors, practitioners, scholars, mentors, and those with the lived experience of the social challenges we seek to address.
We foster a courageous spirit in our students because we believe that solving the wicked problems faced in society requires the fortitude to think and act differently.
We support our students’ opportunities for connectivity and collaboration, while amplifying their individual opportunities for success in the global economy, elevating stories, perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences that reflect both our inclusive community of learners and the broader range of communities and business environments in which they operate.
Alumni from our co-curricular and related academic programs have founded dozens of successful businesses including Rebundle, Beamlink, Peruana Sauce, Pulp Pantry, UMEED, Green Pines Media, RxLA and Secure Remedy.
