CLASS INTRODUCTION
- Scaling-up. How to overcome key challenges to reach scale for social enterprises.
- There is a multitude of successful social ventures that can be replicated / scaled-up; no need to “re-invent the wheel”. Social purpose organizations can to learn from successful examples and “localize” winning concepts
- Case study: Teach for All: How can Teach for America expand its successful model of education beyond the United States?
- Initial team funding concept presentations due: Short (5 min) presentation of basic concept for funding pitch. Feedback from instructor and other student teams.
Guest speaker:
Karen Arkell, Director of Development, Teach for China
Arnold Chan, Founder and CEO, Teach for Hong Kong
Mandatory preparation:
Initial team funding concept presentation (power point format; recommended length: 5-10 slides). Please decide which team member(s) will present your team’s initial funding proposal in front of the class.
Mandatory reading:
Case study: Teach for All: How can Teach for America expanded its successful model of education beyond the United States. Yale School of Management
http://som.yale.edu/faculty-research/our-centers-initiatives/program-social-enterprise/case-studies
Module on Scaling Strategies in the Toolkit on Social Investment developed by Mark Cheng, Ashoka, with UBS:
https://www.ubs.com/microsites/social-investment-toolkit/en.html
Recommended readings:
Kayser, O. & Budinich, V. (2015) Scaling up: Business solutions to social problems. A practical guide for social and corporate entrepreneurs. Chapter 11
Gugelev, A. & Stern, A. (2015) What’s Your Endgame? Stanford Social Innovation Review
Trelstad, B. & Katz, R. (2011) Mission, Margin, Mandate: Multiple Paths to Scale. Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 6(3): 41-53
Kayser, O. & Budinich, V. (2015) Scaling up: Business solutions to social problems. A practical guide for social and corporate entrepreneurs. Chapters 4, 6-7. 9-10
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