Please note that this course description
is from Spring 2017 and should be used as reference
only.
COURSE NUMBER: MBA
292A.1
This course is
dual-listed with the Evening-Weekend MBA Program.
COURSE TITLE: Strategy
and Leadership for Social Impact
UNITS OF
CREDIT: 2 units
CLASS MEETING DATES: TBD
as of 10/3/17. The course will meet 10 weeks out of the 15 week semester. Exact
dates TBD.
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:
1) Clearly understand the complexity of social and economic problems.
2) Clearly understand the ecosystems and specific contexts where these problems
exist - including the complex, overlapping landscapes of NGOs, social ventures,
business and government.
3) 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.