SEMESTER(S):  Fall 2019

This course is dual-listed with the Full Time MBA Program (MBA292T.5)

COURSE NUMBER:  EWMBA292T.5  (previously listed as EWMBA292T.1)

COURSE TITLE:  Berkeley Impact Venture Partners (BIVP)

UNITS OF CREDIT:  2 units

INSTRUCTOR:  Jorge Calderon

E-MAIL ADDRESSES:  jorgecalderon@haas.berkeley.edu

MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: Weds. 6-9:30 pm:  Sept. 4 – Nov. 20, 2019 (no class November 12)

PREREQUISITE(S)**:  As a new course, we will be flexible on prerequisites, but would encourage you to have already been in an impact investing, impact entrepreneurship, venture capital, traditional entrepreneurship course or a related program (Launch, HIIN, GSVC, etc.) or have work experience in this field.

**You do not have to take the Fall BIVP course in order to be included in the Spring BIVP course.

If you do not meet the prerequisite background, there are many great introductory courses being offered in Fall `19 that can prepare you for the next BIVP course in Spring `20.

These courses include:

         The new 1-credit Impact Investing and Entrepreneurship course (EW/MBA292N.13 taught by Adair Morse)

         MBA292N.2 Social Impact Metrics

         MBA292N-3 Food Innovation Studio

         EW/MBA292N-11 Social Impact Marketing

         MBA292J-1 Haas Socially Responsible Investment Fund

         EW/MBA212A.1 Cleantech to Market

         EW/MBA292T.4 Impact Startup Launchpad

         EW/MBA295T.1 Bay Area Innovation and Entrepreneurship

         EW/MBA295A.1 Entrepreneurship

If you are not sure your previous course or work experience qualifies, please reach out to the instructor.

CAREER FIELD:

         This advanced course is most useful for students who are committed to a career in impact investing, impact entrepreneurship, impact management consulting or closely related field

         The course objectives include:

1.       Management/Leadership Development

§  Learn aspects of being an effective impact fund manager

§  Learn how to design, implement and manage a structured incubator/accelerator model for very early stage startups

2.       Skill and Knowledge Development

§  Learn how to provide effective stewardship to impact startups and impact enterprises in an external investor, advisor or consultant capacity

§  Learn the unique circumstances that help some impact startups grow and some ultimately fail

§  Optional:  Develop personal career plan for related roles

CLASS FORMAT:  Project-based with a mixture of lectures, guest speakers, student presentations, and in-class workshopping.

REQUIRED READINGS:  Combination of reading, video materials and market research.

BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE: Group and individual deliverables, level of engagement & peer reviews

ABSTRACT OF COURSE CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES: 

Berkeley Impact Venture Partners (BIVP) is an impact investing fund manager construct that is operationalized through a collaboration of courses and activities that are being piloted within IBSI’s new SAIF initiative.  This Fall, one of those courses will be (EW)MBA292T.5 also named BIVP.  In this unique experiential course, enrolled students will take on the role of Venture Partners within BIVP and concurrently learn how to steward(nurture) active portfolio companies (previous awardees of SVF, GSVC and HIIN activities) and design an accelerator model. 

The course will include weekly classroom lectures, guest speakers and in-class workshopping.  Curriculum leans heavily on several frameworks that including Purpose-Centered Design, Startup Readiness and other well-developed innovation methodologies/tools.  Students will have an opportunity to engage directly with the impact startup founders, impact investors, accelerator managers and other experts who volunteer as coaches, mentors and judges.

Through this real-world experience, enrolled students will build or advance skills and knowledge in preparation for careers in impact investing, impact entrepreneurship, impact management consulting and/or related scalable impact field.  On top of the core curriculum, we will also offer an optional career planning support track.

We currently plan to have a similar BIVP named course in the Spring which will continue stewarding the portfolio teams and will run the accelerator program that had been designed in the Fall.

Example firms/organizations that may be part of our resource network for these BIVP related courses:  Kapor Capital, Omidyar Networks, Skoll Foundation, Draper Richards Kaplan, Toniic, DBL, SJF, Singularity Ventures, REDF, ACCION, Endeavor, Acumen, Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund, Align Impact, Village Capital, Gratitude, Patamar Capital, and similar...

INSTRUCTOR PROFILE:

Jorge Calderon, Haas Lecturer & IBSI Social Impact Fellow

Jorge Calderon is a career entrepreneur, management consultant, venture investment professional, and educator.  He is the founder and CEO of Eddily, a skill building and campus recruiting software platform for college students that is directly powered by employers.  He previously founded and led Impact Strategy Advisors (ISA), a boutique social venture and investment design consulting firm.  Calderon’s practice focused on helping capital sources and operating companies transform intentional social purpose into economic and positive impact value.  He has broad expertise in a variety of social themes, including education, economic development, human equity, job creation, poverty alleviation, access to food, technology for change and the field of impact investing.  He is the author of Startup Discovery Method, Startup Readiness, the FAIR Note and Purpose-Centered Design frameworks.  He is currently a lecturer at Berkeley Haas, where he built the Impact Startup Launchpad and Startup Disco curricula, is a Fellow within Berkeley’s Institute for Business and Social Impact (IBSI), was part of the faculty team for the LAUNCH accelerator, was previously the Faculty Director for the GSVC, and is actively involved with campus based inclusive innovation programs.  Jorge founded Berkeley Impact Venture Partners, a fund manager construct that is operationalized through several experiential courses that teach portfolio management, accelerator design and other impact finance and entrepreneurship competencies.  Through Berkeley Haas, he received the Richard H. Holton Teaching Fellow (2015-2016) Award and 2016 Berkeley Haas Best Case Award.  Calderon previously founded Springworks, a program lab that was committed to developing paths for women and minorities in innovation related careers.  Earlier he was the founding Director for the West Coast office of a tech focused seed stage venture capital firm and has had roles in top tier management consulting, banking and technology companies.  Jorge is a University of Michigan graduate and received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.  Calderon was recently appointed as one of the Commissioners for Redwood City’s Park, Recreation and Community Services.