Universidad Externado de Colombia

Core values

- **Addresses societal needs and issues**: The program focuses on improving social and environmental issues, reducing inequity, exclusion, and poverty through small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets[1][3][5].
- **Improves quality of life**: It supports economic, social, and environmental initiatives in SMEs, enhances the role of the private sector in social issues, and connects relevant actors for improved results. This includes consulting work on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and serving the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) markets[1][3].
- **Promotes positive change**: The program aims to form global, creative, and responsible leaders and contributes to responsible economic development. It also includes initiatives like Transforming Small Business (TSB), Social Business (SB), Base of Pyramid Challenge (BoP), and Circular Business (CB), all of which are designed to create positive social and environmental impacts[1][3].
- **Contributes to community well-being**: Participants gain experience working with vulnerable communities and SMEs, which benefits these communities by providing them with formal business training, innovation policies, and consulting services they might not otherwise afford[1][3].