Social Entrepreneurship

Texts

Primary texts
The Promise, Pitfalls, and Potential of Social Entrepreneurship

And readings from:
Social Entrepreneurship: essentials starter kit
SET Management (summaries)
Human Centered Design Kit (methods)
This is Service Design Doing (methods)

Supplementary texts (short articles)
Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything
Startup Structures: MaRS Impact Report
Beyond neoliberalism: Resilience... governing complexity
The science of what makes people care
The quiet radicalism of building a lifestyle business
Will the millennial aesthetic ever end? (product = design)
When faced with so-called "progressive business," stay skpetical

Assignments

Learning Statements
Presentation Rubric / sign up

Strat Planning / Pitch
Pathway descriptions (select)

Do your lean canvas:
(lecture and video instructions below)
- use canvanizer
- download the form instead
- how to fill it in (instructions)
- things to consider (startup toolkit)

Case study examples:
- SET Management examples
- Purpose Construction
- Ice Stone
- Tom's Shoes
- Society Profits (European SEs)
(+ find your own!)

Course Schedule

Lean start-up video instructions

Socially-driven food innovations

Discussion questions

In this course we refer to a range of business classifications that blend social, ecological, and financial value between the public and private sectors. The course identifies unique opportunities for the sector, explores organizational and management issues specific to social enterprises, reviews the history of social enterprise structures, and critically reviews their impacts. We will also consider the value of the “entrepreneurial” approach, including attitudes towards risk tolerance, experimentation, and problem-solving. Prerequisite: 30 credit hours of university-level studies.

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