Social Entrepreneurship Syllabus
Syllabus for the Study and Practice of Social Business
Social Entrepreneurship Class Schedule
Week 1: What is social entrepreneurship
Week 2: Funding social entrepreneurship + business models + bootstrapping
Week 3: Marketing and social entrepreneurship
Week 4: Leaders in social entrepreneurship
Week 5: Social entrepreneurship case studies (presentations/projects)
Week 6: Social entrepreneurship and the base of the pyramid (BOP)
Week 7: Struggles of the social entrepreneur
Week 8: Debates in social entrepreneurship
Week 9: Social movements + Non-profits
Week 10: Micro-leading + savings
Week 11: Scaling your social enterprise + Collaboration
Week 12: Pick a sector any sector (student opportunity for direction + choice)
Week 13: Social entrepreneurship 2.0: Trends in social entrepreneurship
Week 14: Design Your Own (Student Projects + Presentations)
Social Entrepreneurship Books for the Class
The Power of Unreasonable People
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World, by Jacqueline Novogratz
Select Essays from Design for the Other 90 Percent
Select Chapters from Out of Poverty by Paul Polack
Select Chapters from Banker to the Poor by Mohammed Yunnus
Select Articles from The Next 4 from Billion: Market Size and Business Strategy for the Base of the Pyramid by the World Resources Institute
Social Entrepreneurship Resources and Bibliography
Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)
Changemakers @ Ashoka
Next Billion
Social Entrepreneurship @ Change.org
Design for the Other 90 Percent
e-clips at Cornell
Stanford E-corner
Corporate Social Responsibility @ CSR Wire
Social Entrepreneurship at Alltop
Case Place
Top Social Entrepreneurs by Fast Company
Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs by Business Week
Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke
Trends in Social Entrepreneurship (version 1.0)
Trends in Social Entrepreneurship (version 2.0)
TED Talks
Creative Capitalism
Philanthrocapitalism
Micro-enterprise, micro-franchise, and micro-loaning
To be added….
Any suggestions for this or other parts?
One caveat: sorry this isn’t a traditional 15 to 18 week schedule, but hopefully it can help generate some ideas around social entrepreneurship. Also, I think its useful, because all the weeks to be added can be student generated or work time.
This social entrepreneurship syllabus sampler that I created and compiled might also prove helpful:
http://compassioninpolitics.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/social-entrepreneurship-syllabus-sampler/
As with previous sampler, I would suggest that there is much of interest beyond the United States. See various UK universities + learning programmes such as our own; see Skills for Social Entrepreneurs pilot in Beijing; see Social Entrepreneurs Ireland, UnLtd, SELF (Germany), Center for Social Innovation (Canada), University of Bologna etc etc
Fantastic resources! Agreed. Thanks.
Sorry for the omission, I’m just more familiar with more US based examples.
Interesting insight from a teacher at MIT, with some overlap directly S.E. related issues.
http://www.maximizingprogress.org/
I also ran across some presentations at the Harvard Business School specific to social enterprise:
http://www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/pdf/CreatingSEBPlan.pdf
http://www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/pdf/
This project seems interesting: the Two Dollar Challenge in which students learn what its like to live on $2 a day:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1153568
Here is the Two Dollar Challenge website:
http://www.twodollarchallenge.org/about/
For the African technology (IT) and mobile space this ebook/whitepaper is pretty good. It also speaks more generally about design for the developing world near the beginning:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29902948/Essays%C2%A0on%C2%A0African%C2%A0Tech%C2%A0Volume%C2%A01%C2%A0On%C2%A0Innovation
I’ve compiled a list of social entrepreneurship research here. I think its quite useful:
http://compassioninpolitics.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/academic-social-entrepreneurship-research/