This course is cross-listed with the Full Time MBA Program. Please note that this course description is from Fall 2012 and should only be used as a reference.

COURSE NUMBER: EWMBA292S.1

 

COURSE TITLE: Social Sector Solutions: Social Enterprise

 

UNITS OF CREDIT: 3 units

 

INSTRUCTOR: Nora Silver

 

E-MAIL ADDRESS: silver@haas.berkeley.edu

 

CLASS WEB PAGE LOCATION: http://bspace.berkeley.edu  

 

MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: Mondays 6:00 – 9:30PM

 

PREREQUISITE(S): None

 

 Please note that there is no add/drop period for this course.

 

CLASS FORMAT: Primarily small group and team exercises applying frameworks

 

REQUIRED READINGS: Brief class pre-readings on frameworks plus articles will be available on bSpace

 

BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE (midterm, final, paper(s), project(s), class participation, or a mixture): 80% deliverables (10%Scoping letter and work plan, 10% Storyline, 30% Midterm progress review

with client, 30% Final presentation to client) and  20% participation in class and team

 

ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:

A new course offered for the first time this Fall, Social Sector Solutions for Social Enterprises (S3:SE) is a  partnership with The Bridgespan Group.  S3:SE is designed as a strategy consultation to help social enterprise clients achieve greater impact by addressing their most important strategic challenges with data and values-driven decision making support.  The course develops students’ skills in management consulting, problem solving, and project management, while increasing their knowledge of the unique entrepreneurial challenges of social ventures. Social ventures for the purposes of this course are enterprises (nonprofit, for-profit, hybrid) that seek to integrate their business model and their social impact into a sustainable enterprise. Instruction covers frameworks for project management, problem scoping, problem solving, storyline, client management, team effectiveness, and assessing financial and social impact models of social ventures. The course is built around an assignment to 1 of 5 consultation teams that works with a local client on a current issue vital to the leadership of that client.  An experienced Bridgespan consultant coaches each student team. Students will be able to rank order their preferences for client assignments once accepted to the class. See http://bit.ly/S3SocialEnterprise  for descriptions of the course and the provisional slate of social enterprise clients (to be finalized late May).

 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

Nora Silver is Adjunct Professor and Director of the Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership at Haas. She brings over 30 years of leadership experience as a two-time social sector founder, executive director, board member, and funder of social sector organizations. She has consulted internationally with more than 200 organizations, authored books and articles on leadership and community involvement and lectured at universities and conferences around the world.

 

Don Howard is a partner at The Bridgespan Group where he leads the San Francisco office. He advises nonprofit leaders on how to refine their strategies, improve their operating models, and increase their economic sustainability. His clients have included health and human services organizations, new school developers, neighborhood revitalization initiatives, technology-based nonprofits, and foundations.