Teaching and learning methods
Workshops: Students will participate in a series of workshops which will help them to understand their skillsets (creating benchmarks and monitoring progress) and their own leadership styles. These workshops will take place in class.
Writing individual reports: Students, as part of summative assessment, will submit individual reports where they will present problem landscape, solutions landscape and opportunities for intervention
Reflective log: students will complete weekly blogs on the learning process to reflect on the skills and knowledge acquired during the course, and their understanding of themselves as social impact leaders. These blogposts will be thematised using specific skills and leadership concepts.
Presentations: students will deliver presentations to a panel of external stakeholders, outlining their understanding of given social challenges, current solutions, and the scope for effective new interventions.
Study time
Type |
Hours |
Independent Study |
124 |
Teaching |
26 |
Total study time |
150 |
Resources & Reading list
Internet Resources
Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Guardian Social Enterprise Network.
Next Billion: Development Through Enterprise.
Harvard Business Review Blog.
Textbooks
Stokes, D. ,Wilson, N. and Mador, M. (2010). Entrepreneurship, CENGAGE Learning. London.
Sommerrock, Katharina (2011). Social entrepreneurship business models.
Prahalad, C. K (2010). The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid : eradicating poverty through profits.
Osterwalder, Alexander. Business model generation: a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers.
Bornstein, David & Davis, Susan (2010). Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know.
Yunus, Muhammad (2010). Building social business the new kind of capitalism that serves humanity's most pressing needs.
Polak, Paul (2008). Out of poverty: what works when traditional approaches fail.
Elkington, John & Hartigan Pamela (2008). The power of unreasonable people : how social
entrepreneurs create markets that change the world.
Novogratz, Jacqueline (2009). The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World.
Nicholls, Alex (2007). Social entrepreneurship: new models of sustainable social change.