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WELCOME!Spotlight On: Social Enterprise
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Welcome and Introductions
The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise
Panelist Discussion
Q&A
Welcome and Introductions
Professor Bruce Usher
Sandra Navalli MBA ’03
Natasha Korgaonkar MBA ’18
Anne McGrath MBA ’18
Sabrina Lazarus, Admissions Officer
Katie Bucaccio, Admissions Officer
Welcome and Introductions
Professor Bruce Usher
• Co-Director of The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise
• Elizabeth B. Strickler ’86 and Mark T. Gallogly ’86 Faculty
Director
• Professor of Professional Practice
• Recent courses taught:
• Carbon Finance
• Finance & Sustainability
• Impact Investing Seminar
• Investing in Social Ventures
Welcome and Introductions
Sandra Navalli MBA ’03
• Managing Director, The Tamer Center for
Social Enterprise
Welcome and Introductions
Natasha Korgaonkar MBA ’18
• Second year August-entry Full-Time MBA student
• Pre-MBA Employment:
• Civil rights litigator at the NAACP Legal Defense and
Education Fund, Inc.
• Summer Internship:
• McKinsey & Co.
• Columbia Business School Clubs:
• Vice President of Social Impact Week, Social Enterprise
Club (SEC)
Welcome and Introductions
Anne McGrath MBA ’18
• Second year August-entry Full-Time MBA student
• Pre-MBA Employment:
• • Investigative Analyst, New York County District
Attorney’s Office
• Summer Internship:
• Social Impact MBA Fellow at Inspiring Capital in NYC
• Columbia Business School Clubs:
• Vice President of Events & Careers, Social Enterprise
Club (SEC)
• Columbia Women in Business
• Government and Business
The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise
What is social enterprise at Columbia Business School?
Need
High-performing organizations need great talent, ideas, and strategies to achieve their
social and environmental missions.
Mission
The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School educates leaders to
use business tools, entrepreneurial skills, and management skills to address social and
environmental challenges.
What are the activities of the Center?
Social Enterprise Programmatic Activities
Curriculum
Provide high-quality course content and
teaching for MBA/EMBA students
and Executive Education participants
Experiential learning
Encourage students to learn by applying their
business skills to social enterprise endeavors, including internships, consulting projects, board program, and social venture due
diligence
Research & Idea Generation
Support scholarly and applied research by
faculty members and doctoral students;
external communication of innovative ideas
generated
Careers & Alumni Outreach
Foster strong networks linking the School and
University to alumni and practitioners in social
enterprise organizations and social ventures
Scope and Focus Areas under Tamer Center
Sustainability /Corporate Social
Responsibility
International Development
Social Entrepreneurship
Nonprofit & Public Management
1. Nonprofit & Public Sector Management
2. Social Entrepreneurship
3. International Development
4. Sustainability / Green Business / Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
5. Social Finance / Impact Investing
6. Venture Philanthropy & Social Venture Capital
7. Renewable Energy / Energy
8. Non-Profit Consulting
9. Microfinance
10. Corporate & Foundation Philanthropy
11. Community Development
12. Healthcare
13. Education
14. Arts Management
15. Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability Sector
Career Interest Areas of Students Focus Areas
• MBA graduates eligible
for up to 10 years of loan
assistance
• Graduates may work in
the US or abroad with
nonprofits, in the public
sector, or with eligible
social ventures
The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise: Recent developments
Loan AssistanceSummer Fellowship Social Venture Fund
Expanded Established
• First and second year
MBA students eligible,
working with public sector,
nonprofits, NGOs, and
nonprofit or for-profit social
ventures
• All Columbia students
across campus interning
with social ventures
eligible
• Seed grants of up to $25K for
start-ups
• All Columbia students,
alumni, researchers, faculty
eligible
• Access to Columbia Startup
Lab (coordinated with Lang
Center for Entrepreneurship)
Current:• Full time summer internships for 6 to 10
weeks by providing matching funds of
between $200–800 per week.
• 64 fellowships supported this summer(An additional 3 students participated in the
Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing
Fellowship.)
Expanded: Social Enterprise Summer Fellowships
Enables students to intern in the U.S. or abroad at nonprofit, government or NGOs,
for-profit and nonprofit social ventures.
Scaled Up:• All full-time Columbia undergraduate
and graduate students (including
Barnard and Teachers College) eligible
to work with social ventures.
• Students across the university worked at
organizations including: Accion Venture
Lab, Acumen, Off Grid Electric, The
Marshall Project,
Inspiring Capital, and
Nonprofit Finance Fund.
Expanded: Loan Assistance Program
Encourages MBAs to take management and leadership positions in the public and nonprofit
sectors and with social ventures, by alleviating education loans.
• Expanded number of years of support from 5 to 10 years
• Allow social entrepreneurs to rank equally with public and nonprofit (i.e. no sector
preference)
• This year 40 alumni received loan assistance in the arts, education, international
development, social ventures in organizations including:
Established: Tamer Fund for Social Ventures
Goal:• Investment Board to select ~7
ventures each year
• Preference for financially self-
sustaining ventures
• Screening and advice by faculty,
students, and Social Venture
Advisory Network members
• Additional student pro bono
consulting support e.g. Pangea
Advisors
Timeline:• Online application – 130 ventures
applied for fall 2017 funding round
• First round of applications assessed
by student due diligence teams
(Investing in Social Ventures course)
• Recommendations made to the
Investment Board in November and
May each year.
Provides seed grants of up to $25,000 to nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid early-stage Columbia
University affiliated social ventures.
Portfolio Ventures include:
change:WATER Labs
New Initiatives at the Tamer Center
ReEntry Acceleration
Program (REAP)
Summer Fellowship
Climate Change and
Business Program
Summer Fellowship
Displaced Scholars
Program
Summer Fellowship
Social Enterprise Course List
● Sustainability / Corp. Social Responsibility
– Business in Society
– Finance and Sustainability
– New Developments in Energy Markets
– Carbon Finance
– Energy and Resource Economics
– Business Of Climate Change
– Impact Investing Seminar
– Investor Influence on Corporate
Sustainability
– Social Impact Real Estate
● Capstone
– Modern Political Economy
– Bridging the American Divide
– Reentry Acceleration Program Immersion
Columbia University Network
● MBA students can also take classes listed at
other Schools (SIPA, Mailman, Teachers
College etc)
● Public & Nonprofit Management
– Effective Philanthropy in Urban Communities
– The Nonprofit Sector and the City
– High Performing Nonprofits
– Education Leadership
– Seminar in Public-Sector Structural Change
(Public K-12 Education)
● Social Entrepreneurship
– Social Entrepreneurship: A Global
Perspective
– Investing in Social Ventures
– Impact Investing
– Launching Social Ventures
– Social Venture Incubator
● International Development
– The Private Sector and International
Development
– Markets for the Poor
Course descriptions online: www.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterprise/courses
Over 20 electives offered each year:
Social Enterprise Career / Course Map
Online:
www.gsb.columbia.edu/
socialenterprise/
courses/electives
At the Center of Social Enterprise
➢ Student Retreat (September)
➢ Social Enterprise Conference (October)
➢ Net Impact Career Trek (November)
➢ Social Enterprise Summer Fellowship Week (February)
Collaborative Projects:
2017 Social Enterprise Conference
Leaders Taking a Stand: Social Impact in
Turbulent Times
Friday, October 6
Columbia University’s Lerner Hall
8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
The Annual Conference will bring together over
600 attendees from across Columbia University.
The current political climate creates an uneasy
world stage for companies to navigate. Who are
the business leaders who are stepping up to the
challenge and leading by example?
Speakers from: Newman’s Own, CECP,
DeansList, International Rescue Committee,
TYTHEdesign, among many others.
Register now at: columbiasocialenterprise.org/conference/
Mission: To cultivate the next generation of nonprofit board leaders
A joint initiative between Social Enterprise Club & Tamer Center for Social Enterprise
Students apply at the beginning of the
year for this selective program, which
lasts the entire academic year
MBA Alumni or Friends of CBS who sit
on nonprofit boards serve as Mentors
to students
In exchange for board observation and
mentoring, students conduct a pro-
bono consulting project for the
Nonprofit Organization, in
conjunction with the board and/or staff
Students
Mentors Nonprofit
s
Nonprofit Board Leadership Program (NBLP)
Sample Past NBLP Organizations
Pangea advisors is the international consulting arm of the Social Enterprise
Club. Teams of 3 MBA students work on high-impact consulting projects that
address the most pressing challenges clients face.
PROJECTS ACROSS THE WORLD
SPBD
Progress Out of
Poverty Index for Fiji
Access Afya
Growth Plan for
Keyan Mini-clinics
A TWO WAY COMMITMENT
Pangea Unlocks• Impactful consulting
experience
• Travel subsidy (~80%)
• Mentors and alumni network
Teams Commit to• Impactful work for client
• 3-4 hours per week
• A week on-site
• Interim deliverables & final
presentations
DC CAM
Marketing Plan for
Genocide Center
Pangea Advisors: Pro bono consulting projects
Pangea Advisors: Pro-bono consulting projects
Distribution of Projects by Sector and Region
Sector No. of Projects
2016-17
Arts, Culture & Humanities 1
Economic Development 6
Education 7
Energy 3
Entrepreneurship 10
Financial Services 4
Food and Agriculture 2
Healthcare 6
Microfinance 0
Water & Environment 1
Total 40
Region and Number of Projects 2016-17
Tamer Center for Social Enterprise
Activity 2004 2017
Curriculum MBAs and EMBAs (# of students enrolled) 299 1026
Avg. Enrollment per Course (# of students) 35 47
Avg. Curriculum Evaluation (out of 5) 4.3 4.4
Avg. Professor Evaluation (out of 5) 4.4 4.5
Experiential Social Enterprise Student Clubs (# of students) 281 521
Learning Nonprofit Board Leaders staffed (# of students) - 44
Int. Dev. Consulting Projects (# students funded) - 106
Research Research and Community building events 40 107
Careers Summer Internships (# of students) 20 64
Loan Assistance (# of students) 3 40
Growth in student interest and programmatic activities
PR-TERM
2ND HALF
1ST HALF
2ND HALF
PANELIST DISCUSSION
Professor Bruce Usher
Natasha Korgaonkar MBA ’18 Anne McGrath MBA ’18
Sandra Navalli MBA ’03
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