SEMESTER:  Fall 2018

COURSE NUMBER: MBA292T.4

COURSE TITLE: Social Lean LaunchPad

This course is dual-listed with EWMBA Program

Note: Application process required for this course, If you are accepted, you will be notified by April 16. Please check with Program office for further detail on bidding.  There are no drops for this course.
This course meets from August 28 to Nov. 6 from 6-9PM.

UNITS OF CREDIT: 2.0

INSTRUCTORS: Jorge Calderon & Ben Mangan

E-MAIL ADDRESS: jorgecalderon@haas.berkeley.edu, mangan@haas.berkeley.edu

CLASS WEB PAGE LOCATION:  bCourses

PREREQUISITE(S): Core

CLASS FORMAT:  Project-based, with a mixture of Lectures, Cases and Speakers

REQUIRED READINGS:  Required--Cases and Course Reader; Optional--Suggested Readings

BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE:  Project Deliverables, Participation & Final Team Presentation

APPLICATION PROCESS:
The Social Lean Launchpad is a 2-credit class that will meet on Tuesdays from 6pm - 9pm and run for 11 classes.

We will accept no more than 7 teams this year, with a minimum team size of 3 and a maximum team size of 6. The ideal team will be a mix of:

Please review the following instructions and complete the process by Sunday, April 15, at 5 pm.

ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES: 

The Social Lean LaunchPad walks its talk about iteration – and we’ve optimized the course based on our learnings from last year. This is a unique, advanced offering for student teams who are committed to learning and implementing a social venture design methodology to advance their scalable social start-up concept.

Students should expect to be challenged and stretched, but ultimately rewarded for their effort and perseverance.  To succeed and enjoy this course, you’ll want to bring a sense of humility, layers of resilience, capacity for empathy, and an open mind.

The course pedagogy leads your start-up through a journey of discovery, using a combination of “Purpose-centered Design” and the Lean Start-up Methodology as the foundation for an ongoing series of hypothesis-based experiments and primary research activities (interviews) to support business model and minimum viable product (MVP) iterations.  Additionally this course emphasizes the role core values play in:  guiding team behavior, cultivating a positive work environment and protecting the intentional social impact.  Social Lean LaunchPad uses guest speakers, lectures, readings and flipped classroom content to deliver instruction.

Each week teams will present their findings, insights and refined business model designs to the class for feedback and coaching.  Student teams will incorporate the guidance and encouragement received from the teaching team, class members, mentors and expert guests into their set of business hypothesis for further testing.   At the end of the course your team will deliver a highly vetted social venture design and a well-defined action plan that summarizes the next phase of your start-up to a panel of experts.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:

Jorge Calderon, Lecturer, IBSI Social Impact Faculty Fellow, Social Entrepreneur
Jorge is a career entrepreneur, management consultant, venture investment professional & educator. Mr. Calderon is the Founder and CEO of Eddily (formerly Carett), a learning-as-a-service education tech startup based in the San Francisco Bay Area that is reimagining the bridge between college and careers. He is currently on leave from Impact Strategy Advisors (ISA), a boutique social venture & investment design consulting firm where he was the founding Managing Director. Jorge’s practice focused on helping capital sources & operating companies transform intentional social purpose into economic & positive impact value. Mr. Calderon has broad expertise in a variety of social themes, including education, economic development, diversity/inclusion, job creation, poverty alleviation, access to food, technology for change and the field of impact investing.

Jorge is the author of the Purpose Centered Design methodology and its related philosophy and frameworks. He is also a lecturer at the Berkeley-Haas School of Business, where he built the Social Lean LaunchPad and Startup Disco curricula, is a Fellow within Berkeley’s Institute for Business and Social Impact, is part of the faculty team for the LAUNCH accelerator, was previously the Faculty Director for the GSVC, and is actively working on developing a campus based inclusive innovation program. Jorge recently founded the Berkeley-Haas Social Venture Fund initiative.  Through Berkeley-Haas, he received the Richard H. Holton Teaching Fellow (2015-2016) Award and 2016 Berkeley-Haas Best Case Award. Mr. Calderon previously founded Springworks, a program lab that was committed to developing paths for women and minorities in innovation related careers. Earlier he was the founding Director for the West Coast office of a tech focused seed stage venture capital firm and has had roles in top tier management consulting, banking and technology companies. Mr. Calderon is a University of Michigan graduate and received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. 

Ben Mangan, Lecturer, Executive Director, Center for Social Sector Leadership 
Ben is an award-winning social entrepreneur and recognized thought leader in the areas of social impact and financial inclusion. Prior to joining BerkeleyHaas full time to lead the Center for Social Sector Leadership, Ben was the President, CEO and Co-Founder of EARN a nonprofit social venture using technology to help 1 million US workers save $1 billion by the year 2022. Prior to launching EARN, he served as the Director of Organizational Strategy for the web-based international micro-payments company beenz, and led Ernst & Young Consulting’s Midwest Public/Private Development group, based in Chicago.

In addition to running CSSL, Ben helps lead the Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) and is the BerkeleyHaas lead for the school’s partnership with Philanthropy University – an online learning initiative with over 200,000 students enrolled in social impact courses, from 193 countries. Ben is also the founder and faculty director for the Social Impact Collective which helps high net worth families increase impact through their impact investing and philanthropy. Ben has served on several social venture and nonprofit boards and won numerous awards including the Fast Company Social Capitalist of the Year Award, James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award and the Tipping Point Community Award. Ben is currently serving as a Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute’s Financial Security Program, and is an appointed member of the Federal Reserve Board’s Community Advisory Council. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Ben is also a LinkedIn Influencer.