COURSE NUMBER: MBA292S.1

 

COURSE TITLE: Social Sector Solutions: Nonprofit Consulting Projects

 

UNITS OF CREDIT: 3 Units  

 

INSTRUCTOR: Nora Silver and Joe Dougherty

 

CLASS WEB PAGE LOCATION: bCourses

  

CLASS FORMAT: Primarily small group and team exercises applying frameworks to a real client problem

 

REQUIRED READINGS: Brief class readings on frameworks and topics, which will be available on bCourses

 

ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES: 
Social Sector Solutions (S3) develops students’ skills in management consulting, problem solving, persuasion, and project management, while increasing their knowledge of the entrepreneurial challenges of leading nonprofit, public or social enterprise organizations. In this unique experiential learning course, students tackle complex projects for real clients, on teams receiving coaching from experienced faculty and McKinsey consultants.

 

For more information, please visit https://haas.berkeley.edu/cssl/programs-events/social-sector-solutions/

  

Please note that there is no add/drop process for this course.  If you successfully bid for the course you will be enrolled in the course with no option to drop the course.

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: 

Joe Dougherty is a Partner at Dalberg Advisors in San Francisco. He has served as an advisor to social enterprises, government agencies, foundations and corporations for 20 years and has worked in more than 30 countries. Joe is a lecturer at Haas who has taught nonprofit strategy and leadership, management consulting and more. Joe also teaches courses in consulting skills and project management at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Nora Silver is Adjunct Professor and Director of the Center for Social Sector 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.