K2SP 3515 - Social Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development

This course explores how entrepreneurship has become a driving force in the social enterprise sector and the blurring line between for-profit and not-for-profit. You will develop hands-on social venture business plan tools, assess markets, develop financial and operating plans. This class will be a mix of interactive lectures and case discussions. You will interact with entrepreneurs during the final jury. You will understand the role of entrepreneurship in mission-driven organizations, master the tools and frameworks required to launch and grow an entrepreneurial mission-driven organization. You will come to understand leadership behaviours, how to enact the skills that contribute to a team's effective performance and acquire organizational awareness. You will enhance your critical thinking skills via case analysis, work on your teamwork skills via the team business plan development process and work on your presentation skills.

Stéphanie ANDRIEUX,Sarah GOGEL

Cours magistral seul

English

Personal readings (2 to 3 articles per session) and mini-assignments. You will also be graded on your curiosity, your open-mindedness, how you present a pitch and provide peer reviews, how you analyze a social enterprise, how you work in a group format and how creative and ambitious you are to present your final social project.

1) Passion & curiosity to explore and learn tools to develop a social enterprise sector. 2) Interested to have interactive experience and hands-on work, to carry out an elevator pitch and to work in a group to develop a social enterprise. 3) Interested to delve into personal development topics to increase leadership skills and combine theory and practice.

Spring 2021-2022

1) 40% mini assignments throughout (e.g. elevator pitch, summary of readings and frameworks, peer feedback), drawing on course and experiences. 2) 60% on project building a social venture business plan to present to jury (3-5 person team), 15-20 slide powerpoint presentation with 5-7 page summary. Criteria to evaluate will be whether the vision and mission are clear, the context and evidence, the impact, the legal form of venture, the teamwork and leadership, viability, theory of change and operating model, growth and culture, M&E…

The classes will be interactive, with a lot of participation on behalf of the students. We will analyze a few case studies and interact with some social entrepreneurs in the field. You will also have peer-to-peer learning moments during group work to prepare the social enterprise presentation.