Social Entrepreneurship Program 2012 more

Francisco Marroquin University School of Economics Social Entrepreneurship Professor: Andrés Marroquín, PhD. andresmg@ufm.edu Mondays and Wednesdays 2:30 – 3:50 WHAT IS SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP? The definition of social entrepreneurship is controversial and it is difficult to find agreement. Wikipedia defines “social entrepreneurship” as: “[t]he work of a social entrepreneur. A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. Whereas a business entrepreneur typically measures performance in profit and return, a social entrepreneur assesses success in terms of the impact s/he has on society. While social entrepreneurs often work through nonprofits and citizen groups, many work in the private and governmental sectors. “The main aim of a social entrepreneur as well as social enterprise is to further social and environmental goals. This need not be incompatible with making a profit, but social entrepreneurs are often non-profits. Social enterprises are for ‘more-thanprofit’.”1 The Skoll Foundation defines social entrepreneurship as: Distinct from a business entrepreneur who sees value in the creation of new markets, the social entrepreneur aims for value in the form of transformational change that will benefit disadvantaged communities and ultimately society at large. Social entrepreneurs pioneer innovative and systemic approaches for meeting the needs of the marginalized, the                                                                                                                 1 From Wikipedia. disadvantaged and the disenfranchised – populations that lack the financial means or political clout to achieve lasting benefit on their own.2 Other definition indicate that social entrepreneurship is: The process of identifying opportunities, organizing resources, and providing leadership to solve “people and planet” problems while generating societal and economic value.3 OBJECTIVES The main objective of the class is to give the students a hands on experience of social entrepreneurship, more specifically, the objectives are: 1. To learn about social entrepreneur cases, in Guatemala and abroad. 2. To allow the discussion of articles and papers about theoretical and handson cases of social entrepreneurship. 3. To facilitate interactions between social entrepreneurs and student in the classroom. 4. More importantly, to facilitate the development of a diagnostic and a business plan for a social venture. This class will use different methods to learn and understand the social entrepreneurial venture: discussing videos, reading and discussing academic articles, listening to the experience of social entrepreneurs in class, discussing case studies, and doing fieldwork. GRADING Attendance and participation Quizzes One project Presentation of cases Attendance and Participation Regular attendance is required and will be checked regularly. Students are expected to read assigned materials before class. Be prepared to ask questions and to participate in class discussions. I will ask for input from students and welcome questions. Readings are mainly case studies. The cases will be discussed using the Socratic Method. This means that I will not teach the articles in the traditional way, students will read in advance and will bring comments and questions to the class. Our purpose is to explore ideas by discussing intensely the content of the readings. I will ask questions in                                                                                                                 From The Skoll Foundation website [ http://www.skollfoundation.org/aboutsocialentrepreneurship/whatis.asp ]. 3 Babson Colleage website [ http://www3.babson.edu/ESHIP/programs/socialeship.cfm ]. The websites above were accessed on February, 09, 2009.   2 30% 20% 30% 20% class to motivate discussions. Students can have a clearer perspective of our class dynamic when discussing the articles by reading this piece about the Socratic method at the University of Chicago: [ http://www.law.uchicago.edu/socrates/soc_article.html ]. Quizzes Pop-up quizzes will be given before the class starts. Project Students will develop, individually, a project in the class. The project must include (1) a diagnostic of an industry or environment within which a social venture could be launch, and (2) a business plan of a social venture. Late work will not be accepted Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating, plagiarism, falsifying identity or academic records, and being an accessory to acts of academic dishonesty. Ignorance about what counts as plagiarism is not an acceptable excuse. Each student is required to maintain the standards of integrity that characterize the UFM culture. 1st Week Monday Introduction What is Social Entrepreneurship? http://www.caseatduke.org/documents/dees_sedef.pdf Wednesday Innovations in Doing and Being: Capability Innovations at the Intersection of Schumpeterian Political Economy and Human Development http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19420676.2010.511818 2nd Week Monday Kiva -TED video. https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/cases/documents/M325.pdf Andres Wednesday Case discussion: Barefoot College-TED video. http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/537/Shifting-Power-Dynamics.pdf Page 97-138. 3rd Week Monday Social Enterprise: Implications of Emerging Institutionalized Constructions http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19420676.2010.511815 Wednesday Users' Influence in Social-service Innovations: Two Swedish Case Studies http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19420676.2010.511813 4th Week Monday Leaving Microsoft to Change the World (1/3). http://www.amazon.com/Leaving-Microsoft-Change-WorldEntrepreneurs/dp/006112107X It will be provided Wednesday Leaving Microsoft to Change the World (2/3). 5th Week Monday Leaving Microsoft to Change the World (3/3). Wednesday The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid (1/4) 6th Week Monday The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid (2/4) Wednesday The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid (3/4) 7th Week Monday The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid (4/4) Wednesday Acumen Fund http://www.acumenfund.org/uploads/assets/documents/Acumen%20Measurement%20 in%20Impact%20Investing%20-%20A_Cqx7PvHM.pdf 8th Week Monday Social Entrepreneurship Research as a Means of Transformation: A Vision for the Year 2028 http://www.koch.uni-wuppertal.de/fileadmin/volkmann/PDFs/Forschung/JSE.pdf Wednesday Do Social Enterprises Finance Their Investments Differently from For-profit Firms? The Case of Social Residential Services in Italy http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19420676.2010.511812 9th Week Monday The Aravind eye care system: Making sight affordable http://www.weforum.org/pdf/schwabfound/Innovations_SpecialEdition_Annual Meeting2008.pdf Wednesday 10th Week Monday A Million Children Now! Transforming School Education in India through the iDiscoveri XSEED Living Knowledge System http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/inov_a_00010 Wednesday Mission, Margin, Mandate: Multiple Paths to Scale http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/INOV_a_00081 11th Week Monday The definition of business http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/INOV_a_00066 Wednesday 12th Week Monday Mobile Money: Afghanistan http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/INOV_a_00067 Wednesday Building a Better Haiti by Investing in Haitians http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/INOV_a_00041 13th Week Monday Banking the Poor through Everyday Stores http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/INOV_a_00062 Wednesday Innovation Amidst Crisis Tulane University’s Strategic Transformation http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/INOV_a_00022 14th Week Monday Toward a Tipping Point for Talent How the Idea Village is Creating an Entrepreneurial Movement in New Orleans http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/INOV_a_00025 Wednesday World Without Oil Better Place Builds a Future for Electric Vehicles http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/itgg.2009.4.4.125 15th Week Monday Challenges in Marketing Socially Useful Goods to the Poor http://www.societyandorganizations.org/wp-­‐content/uploads/2010/06/Garette-­‐CMR-­‐ su10.pdf Wednesday Theory Selling to the poor http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2004/05/01/selling_to_the_poor 16th Week Monday Presentations Wednesday TBA Other sources Wikipedia definition of Social Entrepreneurship: [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_entrepreneurship ] Ashoka Asociation [ http://www.ashoka.org/ ] Skoll Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship [ http://www.skollfoundation.org/ ] Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship [ http://www.schwabfound.org/sf/index.htm ] Social Capitalist Award [ http://www.fastcompany.com/social/2008/index.html ] Videos CIDA University, South Africa [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WmjFAqEYWI ] Patrick Awuah, Ashesi Univerity (Ghana) [ www.ashesi.org ] http://www.socialedge.org/