MULTIPLE RESPONSES (4): Social entrepreneurship curiculum

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From: Debbi D. Brock [mailto:Debbi_Brock at berea.edu] 
Date: Fri 13 Feb 2009 16:09

Hi Roderick,

A similar email thread came through last fall and Forster, Florian [Florian.Forster at whu.edu] setup a blog / webpage where we can collect information on SE - www.social-entrepreneur.net<http://www.social-entrepreneur.net> is up, but still blank.  Below is an email that I sent out to the Academy of Management entrepreneurship listserv a few months ago.  It should guide you in the right direction.  For samples of syllabi, the University Network has a good number posted.  Good luck!

Check out the Social Entrepreneurship Teaching Resources Handbook on the University Network for Social Entrepreneurship website www.universitynetwork.org/handbook for faculty interested in teaching and researching in the field.  The 96 page handbook includes social entrepreneurship programs, majors and minors, the top cases in social entrepreneurship (based on feedback from faculty on the University Network Advisory council), core readings bibliography compiled by Alex Nicholls from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford (there are over 800+ articles being assigned in social entrepreneurship courses to choose from, multimedia classroom resources, books, social entrepreneur organizations, business plan competitions, networks and conferences.  The global directory of faculty teaching and researching in the field compiled by the team at Ashoka will give you resources of faculty to contact. The website has a host of information on social entrepreneurship and Ashoka is working on updating the website to be user friendly.

My personal favorite resources for faculty new to the field include the academic textbook edited by Alex Social Entrepreneurship: New Models of Sustainable Change, a review of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University comprehensive website which includes solid research on where the field is heading, www.fuqua.duke.edu/centers/case, the founder of Appalachian by Design Diane Browning, Barbara Lynch and I published a case on Appalachian By Design: Lessons on Creating Social Value in the Social Enterprise Journal if you want a great example of a case that students have to wrestling with the social mission and the economic reality of the nonprofit enterprise.  Send me an email if you want to see the case and comprehensive teaching notes and epilogue.

If anyone wants to update their course syllabi for our continued research on social entrepreneurship courses, please email it to me at debbi.brock at gmail.com.

Regards,

Debbi

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From: burnett hermina [mailto:herminaburnett at gmail.com] 
Date: Sat 14 Feb 2009 03:56

similar request here.. herminaburnett at gmail.com

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From: k. kemper [mailto:kkemper_ at msn.com] 
Date: Sat 14 Feb 2009 21:22

YOUR term confuses me.  Plz offer me your definition.  E to me means
finding unmet needs and trying to be as creative as possible in solving same.
--we don't say ok clients, or very nice clients, we say clients.  
We don't say, slightly difficult or very difficult but difficult on a problem
not quickly solved.  NO biz is effective that does not service clients
and it is also recognized that some biz's should not exist; [most arms, tobacco, etc[
--I also don't say, Maybe a good idea, or a fair idea but the idea excites me
or it does not.

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From: Duncan Levinsohn [mailto:Duncan.Levinsohn at ihh.hj.se] 
Date: Mon 16 Feb 2009 08:41

Hi Roderick!
 
I would be very interested in receiving copies of the replies you get to this question, as this is also a topic that interests me. I know that Lars René Petersen has recently started a course on social enterprise, but I'm not sure at which level or with which focus. Contact him at: lrp at socialokonomi.dk 
 
Good luck!
 
DUNCAN
 
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