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<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font face="Calisto MT"
size="+3"><u><b>15.963 Social
Entrepreneurship</b></u></font></blockquote>
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size="+3"><b>&nbsp;</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font face="Arial"
size="+3"><b>H1 - Fall 2007</b></font></blockquote>
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size="+3"><u><b>Tues/Thur 10-11:30am</b></u></font></blockquote>
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size="-1"><b>&nbsp;</b></font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="+1"><b>Andrew
Wolk, Sloan Senior Lecturer and one of the country's leading experts
in this fast growing field will be teaching for the Fourth year Social
Entrepreneurship.</b></font></blockquote>
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face="Arial"><b>&nbsp;</b></font></blockquote>
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face="Arial"><u><b>Objective:</b></u></font></blockquote>
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size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
size="-2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font
face="Arial" size="-1"> This course is very 'real world'
oriented.&nbsp; Students develop the skills and competencies in
creating, assessing, implementing and measuring the success of for
profit and nonprofit social innovations.&nbsp; At the end of the class
students are expected to know exactly what they will do to further
execute an idea they have explored during the
course.</font></blockquote>
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size="-1">&nbsp;</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial"><u><b>Topics
Include</b></u></font></blockquote>
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size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
size="-2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font
face="Arial" size="-1"> What is Social
Entrepreneurship</font></blockquote>
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size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
size="-2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font
face="Arial" size="-1"> Choosing between for profit and nonprofit
structure</font></blockquote>
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size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
size="-2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font
face="Arial" size="-1"> Developing a &nbsp;Social Entrepreneur
Business Plan</font></blockquote>
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size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
size="-2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font
face="Arial" size="-1"> Scaling Social Innovations</font></blockquote>
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size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
size="-2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font
face="Arial" size="-1"> Understanding the Social Sector Capital
Marketplace (financing)</font></blockquote>
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size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
size="-2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font
face="Arial" size="-1"> Measuring Social &amp; Economic
Impact</font></blockquote>
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size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
size="-2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font
face="Arial" size="-1"> Forming Public / Private
Partnerships</font></blockquote>
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size="-1"><b>&nbsp;</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial"><u><b>Course Format &amp;
Key Deliverable</b></u></font></blockquote>
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size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
size="-2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font
face="Arial" size="-1"> Lectures based on readings and
projects</font></blockquote>
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size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
size="-2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font
face="Arial" size="-1"> In class exercises - (i.e. elevator
pitch)</font></blockquote>
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size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
size="-2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font
face="Arial" size="-1"> Live Case studies with Social
Entrepreneurs</font></blockquote>
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size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
size="-2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font
face="Arial" size="-1"> Primary Deliverable: Feasibility study (for
profit or nonprofit welcome) based on in-class idea and limited number
of outside projects.</font></blockquote>
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size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
size="-2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font
face="Arial" size="-1"> Encouraged for deliverable to be submitted to
MIT Social Impact 50k, Ideas Competition, Echoing Green, Ashoka,
Investors Circle, or other initiatives supporting social
entrepreneurs</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial"><u><b>For Sloan
students who want to:</b></u></font></blockquote>
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size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
size="-2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font
face="Arial" size="-1"> Start an organization whose primary focus is
social impact (education, health care, economic development,
international development/bottom of the pyramid), environment, the
arts, etc)</font></blockquote>
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size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
size="-2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font
face="Arial" size="-1"> Learn and utilize skill sets upon
&nbsp;graduation to volunteer with organizations involved with social
change during their career (don't leave your business hat at the
door)</font></blockquote>
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size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
size="-2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font
face="Arial" size="-1"> Learn how to integrate course work into their
private sector career&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></blockquote>
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color="#000080"><b>&nbsp;</b></font></blockquote>
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color="#000080"><b>&nbsp;</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font face="Arial"
size="+1"><b>Space is limited!</b></font></blockquote>
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size="-1" color="#000080"><b>&nbsp;</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font face="Arial"><b>To
learn more about the course or syllabus, email</b></font> <a
href="mailto:awolk@mit.edu"><font
face="Times New Roman"><u><b>awolk@mit.edu</b></u></font></a></blockquote
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