COURSE NUMBER:
MBA292S.1
This course is
cross-listed with the EWMBA Program
COURSE TITLE:
Social Sector Solutions: Social Enterprise
UNITS OF CREDIT:
3 units
INSTRUCTOR: Nora
Silver and Don Howard
E-MAIL ADDRESS: silver@haas.berkeley.edu; don.howard@bridgespan.org
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 learned in class
REQUIRED
READINGS: Brief class readings on frameworks plus articles 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.