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.