Jan
29
Social Entrepreneurship ASB - Class Four
January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Wow! Our class today was absolutely AMAZING. We had a guest speaker by the name of Kevin Jones from Good Capital and he was absolutely fantastic. Before I get ahead of myself I should say that Sophia (the class co-leader) also gave an amazing presentation about her experience and research about philanthropic foundations and non-profits. There is a lot of information from this class so I’ll focus mostly on Kevin Jones and talk about Sophia’s presentation in a later post.
Jan
25
Discovering Entrepreneurship - Class Two
January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The focus of this week’s class was leadership and team building, and I was surprised and impressed by the presentation we had today. Our guest visitor was Mike Rothenberg, a former Stanford student who is now working at Bain as a consultant. Before class we had to read Colin Powell’s article titled A Leadership Primer, and another selection from Kouzes, Posner, and Peters titled The Leadership Challenge. I personally liked Mr. Powell’s article better, and a quick Google search will yield the 18 lessons he outlines. For the most part of this post, though, I would like to highlight the lessons from Mr. Rothenberg’s presentation on leading a team.
Jan
22
Social Entrepreneurship ASB - Class Three
January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Bill Drayton, the founder of Ashoka, is playing an extremely prominent role in our class thus far. Not only are we researching his organization and those organizations affiliated with his, but we are also researching his beliefs and thoughts on social entrepreneurship. In fact, I believe I could reasonably argue that he is either the most prominent individual in the realm of social entrepreneurship or definitely in the top five. Most of the class today revolved around the definition of social entrepreneurship, and Mr. Drayton came up multiple times in multiple contexts.
Jan
18
Discovering Entrepreneurship First Admitted Class
January 18, 2008 | 1 Comment
Wow, today’s class was absolutely amazing. Kimber was the only one there there again (Vivian was on Snow Trip last time - not sure this time), but she did an amazing job. Most of the class today focused on a presentation/discussion featuring Tom Byers, and we would have had a greater group discussion afterwards, but Jason and I had to leave for our Snow Trip.
Jan
15
Social Entrepreneurship ASB - Class Two
January 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Tonight’s class was interesting and a bit of a bonding experience. I have high expectations for this class, especially since we will be spending a week traveling around visiting different socially entrepreneurial organizations, and getting to know one another even better will be extremely helpful when we start helping those organizations with random tasks. Tonight’s class definitely lived up to that expectation, and here is a quick overview of what we accomplished.