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.