MANG6421 Social Entrepreneurship


Timeline
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February 15, 2021Experience start
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February 15, 2021Project Scope Meeting
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April 28, 2021Feasibility Study and/or recommendations presentations
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April 28, 2021Experience end
Timeline
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February 15, 2021Experience start
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February 15, 2021Project Scope Meeting
Meeting between students and company to confirm: project scope, communication styles, and important dates.
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April 28, 2021Feasibility Study and/or recommendations presentations
Presentations to a panel as part of assessment
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April 28, 2021Experience end
Experience scope
Categories
Product or service launchSkills
social entrepreneurship business strategy research social innovation competitive analysisAre you up to date on the unique opportunities and challenges facing social ventures? The central driver for social entrepreneurship is the social problem being addressed in an innovative and entrepreneurial way, with an objective to create and sustain social and economic value. In this course students bring with them entrepreneurial skills and frameworks required to create and scale up a social venture. A team of students will develop a feasibility plan or focused recommendations for your social venture to help you pursue an opportunity; or overcome a challenge that you are facing; or scale up and expand your social venture's activities.
Learners
The final project deliverables will include:
- A feasibility plan and/or focused recommendations in the form of powerpoint slides.
- A presentation deck highlighting the key recommendations.
- An appendix with references.
Project timeline
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February 15, 2021Experience start
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February 15, 2021Project Scope Meeting
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April 28, 2021Feasibility Study and/or recommendations presentations
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April 28, 2021Experience end
Timeline
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February 15, 2021Experience start
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February 15, 2021Project Scope Meeting
Meeting between students and company to confirm: project scope, communication styles, and important dates.
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April 28, 2021Feasibility Study and/or recommendations presentations
Presentations to a panel as part of assessment
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April 28, 2021Experience end
Project Examples
Requirements
A group of students will work to produce a feasibility study and/or focused recommendations to address a specific challenge or to pursue an opportunity that your social venture/organization is facing. The final deliverable will include focused recommendations, a feasibility plan, if applicable. An appendix will be included, which will contain all research findings and references.
Areas of focus for this project can include, but are not limited to:
- Developing a feasibility study or focused recommendations for your social enterprise to develop strategies to enter a new market; pursue a new social venture opportunity; to expand the existing social venture offerings (product and/or service).
- Addressing an enterprise challenge that your social venture is facing, with focused recommendations.
- Carrying out an entrepreneurial ecosystem analysis for identifying kinds and nature of networks that social enterprises can tap into and strengthen their customer/client; supplier; funder; employee base.
- Performing a detailed competitor and environmental analysis;
- Conducting a comparative and contextual international analysis of social ventures in similar domains with focused recommendations for developing collaborations .
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Timeline
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February 15, 2021Experience start
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February 15, 2021Project Scope Meeting
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April 28, 2021Feasibility Study and/or recommendations presentations
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April 28, 2021Experience end
Timeline
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February 15, 2021Experience start
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February 15, 2021Project Scope Meeting
Meeting between students and company to confirm: project scope, communication styles, and important dates.
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April 28, 2021Feasibility Study and/or recommendations presentations
Presentations to a panel as part of assessment
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April 28, 2021Experience end