开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: 12 weeks
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所在平台: CourseraArchive 课程类别: 经济与金融 大学或机构: Copenhagen Business School(哥本哈根商学院) 授课老师： 其他 |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/socialentrepeneur
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The domain of social change is no longer reserved for students of political sciences and development studies. Increasingly business students are recognized as possessing important skills that can drive social change. This new discipline is often referred to as Social Entrepreneurship (S-ENT). S-ENT describes the discovery and sustainable exploitation of opportunities to create public goods. This is usually done through the generation of disequilibria in market and non-market environments. The S-ENT process can in some cases lead to the creation of social enterprises. These social ventures are hybrid organizations exhibiting characteristics of both the for-profit and not-for profit sector. Individuals engaging in S-ENT are usually referred to as social entrepreneurs, a term that describes resourceful individuals working to create social innovation. They do not only have to identify (or create) opportunities for social change (that so far have been unexploited), they must also muster the resources necessary to turn these opportunities into reality.
A typical example is Prof. Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank (Bangladesh) and recipient of the Nobel Peace prize in recognition of his contribution to poverty alleviation through the invention and popularization of Microfinance. Other examples include fair trade or car-sharing. Today many foundations aim to identify and promote social entrepreneurs. Two prominent examples are Ashoka and the Skoll Foundation. So called venture philanthropists adopt methods from the domain of venture capital, for example, encouraging social entrepreneurs to provide detailed business plans and to measure and report systematically on their social performance. Social Return on Investment (S-ROI) analysis is an example, for an emerging tool aiming to describe the social impact of S-ENT in dollar terms, relative to the philanthropic investment made.
Week 1: The Blended Value Proposition
Week 2: The Social Entrepreneur
Week 3: Social Entrepreneurial Opportunity
Week 4: Charity spin-off or Commercial venture?
Week 5: Microfinance
Week 6: Cooperatives and Social Enterprise
Week 7: Social Return on Investment
Week 8: Impact Measurement and replication
Week 9: Exit Strategies
In this course you will learn how to create societal impact through Social Entrepreneurship (S-ENT). S-ENT describes the discovery and sustainable exploitation of opportunities to create social change. The course introduces you to practical S-ENT examples as well as the foundational literature.
