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Entrepreneurship</b></u></font></blockquote>
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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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<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"><u><b>Objective:</b></u></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Wingdings"
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face="Arial" size="-1"> This course is very 'real world'
oriented. Students develop the skills and competencies in
creating, assessing, implementing and measuring the success of for
profit and nonprofit social innovations. 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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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial"><u><b>Topics
Include</b></u></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Wingdings"
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face="Arial" size="-1"> What is Social
Entrepreneurship</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Wingdings"
size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
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face="Arial" size="-1"> Choosing between for profit and nonprofit
structure</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Wingdings"
size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
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face="Arial" size="-1"> Developing a Social Entrepreneur
Business Plan</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Wingdings"
size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
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face="Arial" size="-1"> Scaling Social Innovations</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Wingdings"
size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
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face="Arial" size="-1"> Understanding the Social Sector Capital
Marketplace (financing)</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Wingdings"
size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
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face="Arial" size="-1"> Measuring Social & Economic
Impact</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Wingdings"
size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
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face="Arial" size="-1"> Forming Public / Private
Partnerships</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial"><u><b>Course Format &
Key Deliverable</b></u></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Wingdings"
size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
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face="Arial" size="-1"> Lectures based on readings and
projects</font></blockquote>
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face="Arial" size="-1"> In class exercises - (i.e. elevator
pitch)</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Wingdings"
size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
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face="Arial" size="-1"> Live Case studies with Social
Entrepreneurs</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Wingdings"
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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>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Wingdings"
size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
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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>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Wingdings"
size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
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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>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Wingdings"
size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
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face="Arial" size="-1"> Learn and utilize skill sets upon
graduation to volunteer with organizations involved with social
change during their career (don't leave your business hat at the
door)</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Wingdings"
size="-1">l</font><font face="Times New Roman"
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face="Arial" size="-1"> Learn how to integrate course work into their
private sector career </font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font face="Arial"
size="+1"><b>Space is limited!</b></font></blockquote>
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<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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