COURSE NUMBER: MBA 292A.1
COURSE TITLE: Strategy and Leadership for Social
Impact
UNITS OF CREDIT: 2 units
INSTRUCTOR: Ben Mangan
and Colin Boyle
E-MAIL ADDRESS: mangan@haas.berkeley.edu and colin_boyle@haas.berkeley.edu
PREREQUISITE(S): None for MBAs
CLASS FORMAT: Lectures, cases and guest speakers
REQUIRED READINGS: Cases, selected articles and
texts
BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE: Final grades will be based
upon class participation, short interim writing assignments, peer feedback and
a final project
CAREER FIELD: Nonprofit and Social Venture
Leadership, as well as board service on nonprofits and social ventures
ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:
Strategy and Leadership for Social Impact is a new
course offering which serves as Haas’s core social impact offering. Students
interested in pursuing other social impact courses during their time at Haas
are strongly encouraged to take this course for foundational learning that will
prepare students for other social impact courses.
The class prepares students to :
Clearly understand the complexity of social and
economic problems.
Clearly understand the ecosystems and specific
contexts where these problems exist - including the complex, overlapping
landscapes of NGOs, social ventures, business and government.
Develop effective approaches and tools to solving
these problems - by managing and leading social ventures and nonprofit
organizations – or influencing these issues as a leader in a private sector
firm.
The course will be case-based with a heavy emphasis
on international cases that involve players from across the private, nonprofit
and governmental sectors. Students will leave the course prepared to play
strategic, evidence-based leadership roles to help solve some of the world’s
toughest problems.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Colin Boyle
Colin is the first Deputy Director of UCSF Global
Health Sciences (GHS), dedicated to improving health and reducing disease
worldwide. Colin joined UCSF after 15 years with the Boston Consulting Group
(BCG), where he was a partner and managing director leading many of the firm’s
social impact projects. Before BCG, he worked at Partnership for Organ Donation
in Boston as a site team specialist and for Corporate Decisions in Boston as an
associate. Colin has worked extensively in global health, business management
and strategy development and is currently on the board of the Oakland Museum of
California. Colin is a graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Business School and
Harvard Kennedy School.
Ben Mangan
Ben is Executive Director and Lecturer at the
Center for Social Sector Leadership (CSSL) at the UC Berkeley Haas School of
Business. Ben has used the past 25 years to spark prosperity and possibility in
new ways, teaching, leading a consulting practice for Ernst & Young, driving
organizational strategy for the early micro-payments company, beenz.com, and co-founding and running EARN – the nation’s
leading microsavings provider for low income
Americans. Ben has been featured in Time Magazine, the Wall Street Journal and
BusinessWeek. He has won multiple awards, including the James Irvine Foundation
Leadership Award and the Fast Company Social Capitalist of the year Award. Ben
is a Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute’s Program on Financial Security, and
a member of the Federal Reserve Board’s Community Advisory Council. Ben holds a
BA from Vassar College and an MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School.