COURSE NUMBER: MBA292S.1

This course is cross-listed with the EWMBA Program

Please note that there is no add/drop period for this course. Do not bid on it unless you are fully committed as you will not be able to drop the course if your bid is successful.

COURSE TITLE: Social Sector Solutions: Social Enterprise

UNITS OF CREDIT: 3.0

 INSTRUCTOR: Joe Dougherty (Managing Partner Dalberg Global Advisors), Lalitha Vaidyanathan (Managing Partner, FSG) and Nora Silver with FSG coaches and speakers

 E-MAIL ADDRESS: silver@haas.berkeley.edu

CLASS WEB PAGE LOCATION: http://bspace.berkeley.edu

 MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: Tuesdays, 6:00PM – 9:30PM

 PREREQUISITE(S): None

 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: 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 s 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 –whether nonprofit, for-profit, or 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 and impact investing. The course is built around an assignment to 1 of 5 consultation teams that works with a social enterprise client on a current issue vital to that client, such as business model, expansion plan, metrics, marketing, financials. 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. Clients for Fall have not been finalized; past clients include REDF, La Cocina, Living Goods, San Quentin News and Travel2Change. 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

Joe Dougherty is Managing Partner at 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 Shesubsequently 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.

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.