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 Joe Dougherty, with coaches and guest speakers from FSG
E-MAIL
ADDRESS: silver@haas.berkeley.edu
CLASS
WEB PAGE LOCATION: http://bspace.berkeley.edu
MEETING
DAY(S)/TIME: Tuesday, 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 piloted last year, Social
Sector Solutions for Social Enterprises (S3:SE) is a
partnership between Haas and two
consulting firms: Dalberg Global Advisors and FSG. 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 FSG 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 slate of social enterprise clients under recruitment for
the class (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.
Joe Dougherty leads Dalberg Global Advisors’ San
Francisco office. He has served as a trusted advisor to leading corporations, donor
agencies, governments, and NGOs for nearly twenty years, and has worked in more
than thirty countries. Before joining Dalberg, Joe
was the Director of the Economic Growth practice at Cardno
Emerging Markets, where he worked with the World Bank, Nike Foundation, USAID, AusAID and others to improve access to finance, raise
agricultural productivity, and enhance the lives of the poor in developing
countries. Earlier in his career, Joe worked with both Deloitte and A.T.
Kearney, where he served as the firm's first country manager for Thailand and
worked extensively across Southeast Asia. Joe has an MBA from Wharton and an MA from SAIS.
Lalitha Vaidyanathan is
Managing Director at FSG. She will lead the FSG team of coaches and guest
instructors. Lalitha has advised a variety of clients while at FSG including
corporations, private foundations, multilaterals, government community
foundations, and nonprofits. Her clients in the US include Medtronic, Mattel,
UnitedHealth Group, McKesson, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Metrowest Community Health Care Foundation, and the Greater
New Orleans Foundation. Lalitha started her
consulting career with McKinsey & Company, advising financial services and
technology companies She subsequently co-founded and
ran a venture-backed technology company in San Francisco. Since 2002, Lalitha has worked in the social sector as Program Director
for OpNet Community Ventures, a technology workforce
development organization targeted at low-income young adults, and as an
independent consultant with clients in the areas of community health and global
poverty alleviation. Lalitha has an MBA from Harvard
Business School.