FRCL 195: CREATING WEALTH BY DOING GOOD
Fall 2007 12-week
Instructor: Dr. Uğur Aker Vencl-Carr Teaching Assistant: Lori Singer
(To remember the first name, think of SEWER Dorm Room: RA; Dean 364
and drop the “S”; to pronounce the second name, say Phone: x5778
“I CARE” with a southern accent!) E-mail:
Creating Wealth By Doing Good 7 Fall 2007
Office: Hinsdale 113 Meeting Times: MWF 9:30-10:30
Office Hours: TR 9:30-11:30 Classroom: Hinsdale 120
Telephone: x5142 Communication: Check your e-mail.
Email:
This syllabus and other material will be posted on my web site http://home.hiram.edu/www/econ and on SAKAI.
"Entrepreneurship is a way of thinking, reasoning, and acting to create a new product, service, or activity that satisfies a need and adds value to one's self and community." Hiram College Entrepreneurship Document
Hiram's Mission: The mission of Hiram College is to foster intellectual excellence and social responsibility, enabling our students to thrive in their chosen careers, flourish in life, and face the urgent challenges of the times.
I. Course Description:
Creating wealth requires imagination. One might create wealth by providing an existing product or service in a new area, another person might imagine a new way of creating an old product. Others might create a completely new product or service. The stories of individuals who have pursued any one of these paths and followed their dreams to fruition have been populating books, articles, case studies, documentaries, and movies. We will learn about some of these people and gain insights about combining commitment and effort with available resources. The focus of the course will be on not-for-profit activities social entrepreneurs engage in. This colloquium is somewhat different from a typical one because we will spend a considerable time to actually create a plan of action for some entrepeneurial endeavor. This means instead of relying on the professor, every one will contribute to the learning and the output of the class.
II. Goals and Objectives:
There are no prerequisites for this course. It is one of the requirements of general education curriculum at Hiram.
The objectives of the course are:
1. To provide a “home” for members of the class to feel comfortable, secure and safe in a new environment called “college.”
2. To enrich our ability to make informed decisions on controversial matters and act civilly under trying times.
3. To practice our ability to persuade others to our particular perspective.
4. To learn how to organize our thoughts around our passions and convince others to subscribe to our passion.
5. To inspire some participants to delve further into the practice of social entrepreneurship.
The colloquium will be a success if some of you continue your Enterprise Plans beyond the 12 weeks of classes and make your passion a viable enterprise.
III. Course Expectations:
1. Texts and other readings:
a. Required texts:
Hacker, D. (2002). Research and documentation in the electronic age, (3rd ed.) Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s.
Hacker, D. (2003). Rules for writers, (5th ed.) Boston: Bedford.
Daniel Borstein. (2004). How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas. Oxford. Textbook web site: www.howtochangetheworld.org
b. Other texts
Nicholas D. Kristof, "Do-Gooders With Spreadsheets," New York Times, January 30, 2007
Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg. “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2007 (On SAKAI under Resources)
Jim Collins. "Good to Great and the Social Sectors Why Business Thinking Is Not the Answer." http://www.jimcollins.com/lib/articles/socialsectors.html
The Growth of YouthBuild. http://www.caseatduke.org/documents/youthbuilddec2003case.pdf
Latino Community Credit Union. http://www.caseatduke.org/documents/lccucase.pdf
“A New Model for Community Service,” Business Week, May 24, 2007. http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/may2007/sb20070524_512367.htm
“Bono Goes to College for Business Pilot,” January 22, 2007. http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/01/22/bono_goes_to_college_for_business_pilot/
Girls on the Run International. http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/centers/case/documents/girlsontherun_case.pdf
Futures for Kids. http://www.caseatduke.org/documents/f4kfinal.pdf
Bygrave, W. and Zacharakis, A. (2007) Entrepreneurship. Wiley.
David Bollier. (1996). Aiming higher : 25 stories of how companies prosper by combining sound management and social vision. New York : Amacom.
Frank Deford, “Beyond Vick: Animal Cruelty for Sport,” http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12568999
c. Videos
Muhammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank (available at the Library)
IDEO Video (available at the Library)
Stanford Technology Ventures Programs http://edcorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=14
Stanford Technology Ventures Programs Top 20 Videos http://edcorner.stanford.edu/materialSearch.html?materialType=9&top=20&title=Top+20+Videos
Cornell’s Premiere Video Clip Collection http://eclips.cornell.edu/homepage.do;jsessionid=4A58120A1BD2D781299EDAE579A9D7DC
Harvard Business School Entrepreneurs http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurs/
American Express Members’ Project http://www.membersproject.com/home.action?offer=hpcmcmpitch
CNN Heroes: www.cnn.com/heroes
2. Assessment activities:
a. Writing Assignments
All writing assignments will be e-mailed to both Lori and Ugur or uploaded to the Drop Box of SAKAI.
Due 3rd week: "An Entrepreneur I Know" 1200-1500 words. What Is An Entrepreneur? What Is A Social Entrepreneur? Why the Person I Chose Qualifies as an Entrepreneur?
Due 7th Week. Business Plan
(Sources to learn how to prepare a Business Plan: www.entrepreneur.com,
http://entrepreneur.com/services/sampleplans/index.html,
www.businessplans.org,
http://www.sba.gov/smallbusinessplanner/index.html,
http://leeds-faculty.colorado.edu/moyes/bplan/html/spTools.html
community-wealth.org)
Due 10th week. “A Famous Entrepreneur/A Famous Social Organization.” 2300-2600 words
Due 12th Week. Plan for the future: updated Business Plan
Final: “How to Improve This Class?”
Participation Activities: Grammar usage handout and three event summaries. See SAKAI Syllabus for more information.
b. Presentations
Every Wednesday: Two people will present their assignment of grammatical rules and will provide handouts. Use Hacker book and the Internet to prepare a handout. You can do “cut and paste” but give reference. (Each person 5 min.) The goal of this activity is to advance our grammatical understanding and improve our writing.
Week 2: Present a person or an organization: What do they do? Who do they serve? Who are their clients? How do they raise funds for operation? How do they measure success? Have they been growing in size? (Each person < 6 min.) The object of this exercise is (1)to practice for your own project; (2)to prepare for the write-up assignment.
Week 4: Groups develop a set of questions to interview an entrepreneur and each group presents their set. < 5 min per presentation. The goal of this exercise is to help our own project to be designed with the required answers.
Week 5: Rocket Pitches. Convincing people to support your idea is an art. Usually people have very little time to interest others. This activity will hone our skills to attract supporters for our cause. Source: http://faculty.babson.edu/academic/sye3/RocketPitch/Instructor/index.htm
3. Attendance is mandatory. Since we will learn from each other, every absence will impoverish the rest of us. Every missed class, regardless of reason will lower your grade. I will allow you to make up for the absence through extra work.
4. Expectations for class participation and behavior: Since our choices and commitments are intimately linked with values and cultural assumptions, every one’s participation is crucial for the enhancement and enrichment of the rest. Controversial subjects can create emotional outbursts, violent responses. To keep the discourse at a civil level, it is imperative that every one is treated with respect, listened to closely and challenged without attacking the person verbally. In the past, I found it very useful to utilize the pronoun “I” instead of “You” when challenging another person’s ideas.
5. Event attendance: College is not just going to classes and doing the assignments. Please utilize as many opportunities available for you here as you can. Once you are out of college and working and raising a family your options for grabbing opportunities will be severely curtailed. Go to as many convocations, concerts, plays, etc. as you can. Some of the happenings during the Fall Semester are listed under Calendar in Hiram College's home page. Lori will keep you informed on your choices. Once you attend an event, submit a one-page summary. There will be a minimum of three event attendance.
6. Expectations for academic honesty: Hiram takes plagiarism issues very seriously. The academic honesty section of the Hiram College catalog is at the end of this syllabus for reference. Information and ideas we collect from published, web-based and interview sources need to be properly identified. Use your Hacker books to clarify any question you might have.
IV. Assessment and Evaluation:
1. Grade Distribution:
95 - 100 A 91 - 94 A-
87 - 90 B+ 83 - 86 B
79 - 80 B- 75 - 78 C+
71 - 74 C 67 - 70 C-
63 - 66 D+ 59 - 60 D
55 - 58 D- 0 - 54 F
2. Attendance:
Attendance is mandatory. Each absence will cost you 0.33% of your final grade. To erase an absence, I will ask you to do extra work. On Friday, September 21st, we will collectively participate in a nationwide research initiated by the RAND Corporation. The research is developed to assess the true value of a college education and administered in at least 500 campuses. The activities involved in the research are those every one agrees a college education should provide and the skills high-paying jobs require. The Collegiate Learning Assessment Project will start at 8 AM in room 214 of Hinsdale Hall and continue through the class time. Your participation will constitute 5% of your grade. You have to participate the full three hours to get the 5% full grade. If you have a 8 AM class on that day, you can arrange with Prof. Mike Grajek to complete the project some evening. If you have noticed from the previous section, 5 points can move you from a B to A-, two letter grades.
3. Grading
Each task will be graded. Completion will comprise a significant part of the grade. Quality will increase the grade.
Creating Wealth By Doing Good 7 Fall 2007
Writing assignments 40%
Presentations 35%
Participation 25% (Event attendances 5%; grammar 5%; CLA participation 5%)
V. Resources:
1. Individual Entrepreneurs:
Mohammad Yunus www.muhammadyunus.org.
Bill Drayton of Ashoka http://www.pbs.org/now/news/321-transcript.html
Bill Gates http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/bio.mspx
Steven Jobs http://www.answers.com/topic/steve-jobs?cat=biz-fin
Steve Wozniak www.woz.org
Michael Dell http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/biographies/en/msd_index?c=us&l=en&s=corp
Howard Schultz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Schultz
Paul Allen http://www.paulallen.com/default.aspx?flash=true&contentId=1
Robin VanLear http://www.clevelandart.org/educef/parade/html/4348539.html
Law Professor Beats the Odds in Detainee Case http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5767777
2. Social Entrepreneurship Examples
PBS-The New Heroes http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/whatis/
PBS-NOW http://www.pbs.org/now/enterprisingideas/what-is.html
Grameen Bank: www.grameen-info.org
The Sentencing Project www.sentencingproject.org
Amnesty International www.amnesty.org
Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org
ACLU www.aclu.org
Doctors Without Borders www.doctorswithoutborders.org
Oxfam www.oxfamamerica.org
Children's Defense Fund http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer
Planned Parenthood www.plannedparenthood.org
Shaw Festival of Niagara-on-the-Lake http://www.shawfest.com/web/content.asp?docid=5_1_4&gclid=CM7y_pP6_IwCFRV_UAodLQNWYQ
Southern Poverty Law Center http://www.splcenter.org/index.jsp
Northwestern University Project http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/alumni/medillian/spring03/protess.pdf
MoveOn.org www.moveon.org
DonorsChoose.org http://www.donorschoose.org/homepage/main.html
National Coalition Against Censorship http://www.ncac.org/home.cfm
Design That Matters www.designthatmatters.org
FINCA http://www.villagebanking.org/site/c.erKPI2PCIoE/b.2394109/k.BEA3/Home.htm
Heifer http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.204586/?msource=kw52&source=google&campaign=General&group=Heifer&gclid=CNj70KT5_IwCFRGCGgodzC9bDg
International Rescue Committee www.theirc.org
3. Social Entrepreneurship Supporting Organizations
The Skoll Foundation www.skollfoundtion.org
Social Edge www.ashoka.org
World Bank Development Marketplace http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21343891~menuPK:51416191~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html
The Schwab Foundation of Social Entrepreneurship www.schwabfound.org
Community Wealth community-wealth.org
PBS-NOW http://www.pbs.org/now/enterprisingideas/what-is.html
Duke Center for Social Entrepreneurship http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/centers/case/
Kauffman Foundation http://blog.kauffman.org/index.php/campuses
Ashoka www.ashoka.org
Ashoka Environmental Innovations Initiative http://www.ashoka.org/eii
Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization www.c-e-o.org
E-City Cleveland www.ecitycleveland.com
American Express http://www.membersproject.com/intro.htm?offer=enews
Social Innovation Conversations www.siconversations.org
The Draper Richards Foundation http://www.draperrichards.org/index.html
Association for Enterprise Opportunity www.microenterpriseworks.org
Examples of business ideas http://entrepreneur.com/services/sampleplans/index.html
VI. Schedule
Week / Monday / Wednesday / FridayAug. 27-31 / Getting Acquainted / Bornstein Ch. 1 / Bornstein Ch. 2
Videos / Examples: texts, change.org
Kristof Handout / Opening Convo Thursday noon / videos
Sep. 3-7 / LABOR DAY / Bornstein Ch. 3 / Bornstein Ch. 4
IDEO Video / Presenting an entrepreneur
Sep. 10-14 / Bornstein Ch. 5 / Bornstein Ch. 6 / Bornstein Ch. 7
“An Entrepreneur I Know” draft / Brainstorming/voting/groups / “An Entrepreneur I Know”
Ethics Teach-in Tuesday / DUE
Sep. 17-21 / Bornstein Ch. 8 / Bornstein Ch. 9 / CLA Project Participation
Developing questionnaire
Sep. 24-28 / Bornstein Ch. 10 / Bornstein Ch. 11
Oct. 1-5 / Bornstein Ch. 12 / Library Instruction Room / Bornstein Ch. 13
Oct. 8-12 / Bornstein Ch. 14 / Bornstein Ch. 15 / FALL WEEKEND
Oct. 15-19 / Bornstein Ch. 16 Rocket Pitches / Bornstein Ch. 17 Rocket Pitches / JoAnn Barefoot
Oct. 22-26 / Bornstein Ch. 18 Business Plans / Bornstein Ch. 19 Business Plans
Oct. 29- Nov. 2 / Bornstein Ch. 20 Robin VanLear / Bornstein Ch. 21 / “A Famous Entrepreneur/Org”
“A Famous Entrepreneur/Org” / DUE
First Draft
Nov. 5-9 / Revisions / Revisions / Revisions
Nov. 12-16 / Plan For the Future / Plan for the Future / Plan for the Future
VII. Disclaimer:
Plans are wishes. Not all wishes do come true. Those with the wisdom of ages warn us about the curse of wishes that do come true. We may change parts of this syllabus as we see fit in the course of the three-week. For the sake of participatory democracy, I promise to include the class in the decision-making before I make any changes.
Creating Wealth By Doing Good 7 Fall 2007
ACADEMIC HONESTY (Hiram College Catalog, October 29, 2002)
Hiram College believes that the development of intellectual honesty is at the heart of a college education. The process of education is severely compromised if we cannot depend on the academic integrity of each member of the community. Moreover, the principles of academic honesty are aligned closely with the principles of good scholarship and research, principles of critical thinking and reasoning, and the standards of professional ethics. Thus, students who fail to practice academic honestly not only risk losing the trust of the academic community; they also fail to develop the most essential skills and abilities that characterize a college graduate.
Any student who violates the integrity of the academic process will be subject to punishment, including possible dismissal from the College. There are many forms of academic dishonesty including the giving or receiving of help in any form on an examination, the sale or purchase of papers and test materials, the abuse of computer privileges and regulations, the misuse or abuse of library resources, and any other action which debases the soundness of the educational process. Faculty members and librarians are expected to report all instances of academic dishonesty to the Associate Dean of the College who will provide advice on an appropriate action.